On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 09:11:38AM +0800, Chen Wang wrote: > As far as I know, sophgo's SoC product names all start with "sg", while > products starting with "cv" come from CVITEK (another chip company). CVITEK > was acquired by sophgo a year ago, so now many SOC product names that > originally started with "cv" are being repackaged and changed to start with > "sg". > > For the cv1800b adopted by Duo, Sophgo has made it clear that it will not > change its codename. > > But I heard that for other products, such as the cv1812h used by Huashanpi, > sophgo may change their names in the future, but sophgo has not officially > confirmed it yet. Looks like sophgo themselves are still in the process of > digesting cv's products, ;) > > Since we have just started to support cv1812h and have not done much work > yet, I suggest not to merge this patch into the mainline, and wait until > there is clear news before doing this to avoid introducing unnecessary > modifications later. If there are people who have the boards, I'd be inclined to make the mainline kernel usable for them. Doing some renames or adding compatibles down the road, if the SoC is actually rebranded, is not a big deal. I'll leave it up to you guys as to what to do - it's only -rc4 today, so there's no impending doom. Cheers, Conor.
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