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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 predecesor was an ARM9 named Boxchip F20 ( sun3i ) and their successor whose specs are currently unknown, will be the sun6i.

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.

Main components of the A10 / A13:

 * CPU: Cortex-A8 1GHz (ARM v7) Processor 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, and Framebuffer
 * VPU: CedarX (Video Processor Unit for audio and video hardware decoding or encoding)
 * HDMI-transmitter: HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) *

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

sunxi SoCs family

 * Boxchip F20 (sun3i) (ARM926-EJS)
 * Allwinner A10 (sun4i) (Cortex-A8)
 * Allwinner A13 (sun5i) (Cortex-A8)
 * next big thing! (sun6i)

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