Quote: pretty cool device...
It is a damn shame the GK802 is so well-designed (apart from one quirk with the USB port which makes it hateful to really develop on) but the software support is terrible. The Richtechie/Geekbuying guys simply do not respond to GPL requests. We made some effort to reverse engineer the board design so we could figure out which pins are being used for SD card CD/WP and which buses and muxes are in use (thankfully very few) and did get a brand new U-Boot working for it (boots from SD card).
If anyone's interested maybe we can spend a little more time on it, but in the end without the original kernel source they shipped on it.. that's a pain in the backside.
Unfortunately this reflects extremely badly on Freescale more than anyone else; companies like Genesi tend to go out and buy things like the GK802 to see what other people are doing with it (at $95 it is certainly cheaper than a SabreAuto development kit just to benchmark the i.MX6 :) - and if we feel we can't do much with it, we tend to go find other chips which have better development options. Fortunately, we're really good at what we do and i.MX is our thing, so we're limping along with our little unit and the rest of the Freescale development boards and still happy with the performance of the i.MX6 as a whole. Just not the ability to run what we want on some of them..
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