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sunxi represents the family of ARM SoCs made by Allwinner Tech. in Zhuhai (Guangdong, China). The most popular sunxi SoC model is the Allwinner A10 ( sun4i ) and the Allwinner A13 ( sun5i ). Their predecessor was an ARM9 named Boxchip F20 ( sun3i ) and their successors whose complete specs are currently not fully known, will be the sun6i and sun7i.

This wiki is dedicated to all software and documentation related to hacking sunxi based devices and to the devices themselves and is maintained by the arm-netbook community.

= Allwinner sunxi series SoC family =
 * Boxchip F20 (sun3i) (Single-Core ARM926-EJS)
 * Allwinner A10 (sun4i) (Single-Core Cortex-A8)
 * Allwinner A10s (sun5i) (Single-Core Cortex-A8)
 * Allwinner A13 (sun5i) (Single-Core Cortex-A8)
 * Allwinner A20 (sun7i) (Dual-Core Cortex-A7)
 * Allwinner A31 (sun6i) (Quad-Core Cortex-A7)

Common features:

 * CPU: Cortex-A7 (ARM v7) or Cortex-A8 (ARM v7) Central Processor Unit which have both VFPv3 and NEON co-processors:
 * FPU: Vector Floating Point Unit (standard ARM VFPv3 FPU Floating Point Unit)
 * SIMD: NEON (ARM's extended general-purpose SIMD vector processing extension engine)
 * GPU: Mali400 or SGX544 Graphics Procesor Unit, supporting OpenGL ES and Framebuffer
 * VPU: CedarX (Video Processor Unit for audio and video hardware decoding or encoding)
 * HDMI-transmitter: HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) *

Comparison table:

 * The A13 is a cheaper version of the A10 which lacks HDMI-transmitter and SATA-controller, as it is primarily targeted towards tablets.

Software

 * The first steps: Getting u-boot, a kernel, and a rootfs on an SD card.
 * Mainlining Effort goals and sub-goals with milestones for adding Allwinner support in the upstream mainline Linux Kernel
 * linux kernel for sunxi (Allwinner A1x) SoCs
 * u-boot boot loader
 * sunxi-tools (tools to help hacking sunxi devices)
 * mksunxiboot (tool to help making bootable µSD cards for sunxi devices)
 * Linux Distributions
 * Arch Linux
 * Ångström Distribution
 * Buildroot
 * Debian
 * Fedora
 * Gentoo
 * Linaro
 * Mer
 * OpenEmbedded
 * Ubuntu ...
 * Closed Software
 * PhoenixCard
 * LiveSuit
 * Android
 * JTAG on A10 devices through µSD port
 * XBMC
 * VLC
 * Tvheadend TV Tuner Server and PVR backend (compatible with XBMC's PVR client)
 * LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) for the IR receivers and and remotes

Featured Community Hardware

 * EOMA68-A10
 * RhombusTech aims to create an Open Hardware EOMA68 compliant CoM with an Allwinner A10 CPU inside to be the user replaceable heart of different devices.


 * Cubieboard
 * A mini (10x6cm), hacker friendly, extendable and very low-cost while powerful ARM board with A10.


 * Hackberry
 * An alternative low-cost board to cubieboard with very similar hardware and integrated wifi, but with less external headers.

Open Source Hardware

 * A13-OLinuXino
 * Open Hardware SBC with an Allwinner A13 CPU inside developed by Olimex with 512MB RAM, 4GB NAND Flash, VGA, Audio In/Out, WIFI, 3x USB Hosts, USB-OTG, LiPo, SD-card, 72 GPIOs, 6-16VDC power input


 * A10-OLinuXino
 * Open Hardware SBC with an Allwinner A10 CPU inside developed by Olimex with 1GB RAM, 4GB NAND Flash, VGA, HDMI, RS232, JTAG, SATA, 100MBit Ethernet, SD and micro-SD cards, 2x USB hosts, USB-OTG, LiPo, 132 GPIOs, 6-16VDC power input