WM8505 (VT8500, WM85xx) hacking timeline

I've got my hands on cheap WM8505-based Android tablet, figuring out how open to hacking it is, as usual, the information is fragmented and outdated, so I'm going to try and compile timeline:

• 2010-05-28 Alexey Charkov makes first commit to the tree hosted at http://gitorious.org/linux-on-via-vt8500
• 2010-06-03 Alexey Charkov registers http://gitorious.org/linux-on-via-vt8500
• 2010-06-03 Angus Gratton's first blog post on Eken M001, Eken M001 Android tablet review (Pt 1)
• 2010-06-10 Angus Gratton Notes on porting Android 2.x to Eken M001 Discusses the fact the Android userspace was patched to use libwmtapi.so
• 2010-06-22 Angus Gratton Eken M001 teardown & serial console Show good internal pictures (in particular, "WM8505" lebel on CPU).
• 2010-06-13 created topic Kernel source almost available
• 2010-07-27 Harald Welte released initial packages from VIA, with binary objects for video and SD/MMC drivers
  
• 2010-07-28 Angus Gratton's follow-up on inial VIA release
  
• 2010-08-01 Angus Gratton created topic WM8505 linux kernel development (for Eken M001 & others).
• 2010-08-01 https://github.com/projectgus/kernel_wm8505 created
  
• 2010-08-06 Alexey Charkov invites Angus Gratton to join forces on clean implementation of wm850x support at http://gitorious.org/linux-on-via-vt8500/vt8500-kernel
  
• 2010-08-13 Harald Welte posts about making Android 2.6.29 kernel source available. That tarball actually has C source in drivers/video/wmt .
• 2010-08-18 Angus Gratton announces (blog) creation of  VT8500/WM8505 Linux Kernel Google Group. "Kernel discussion seems to have running in a few different places concurrently, especially between netbook & tablet people."
• 2010-09-16 Angus Gratton created topic Testing: Custom kernel with cpu frequency scaling/overclock enabled.
• 2010-11-24 Angus Gratton: Froyo (Android 2.2) alpha for Eken M001 & M003
   

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git repos:

• https://github.com/projectgus/kernel_wm8505 - import and cleanup of original VIA sources, maintained by Angus Gratton
• http://gitorious.org/linux-on-via-vt8500 - from-scratch and cleaned up implementation maintained by Alexey Charkov
• https://github.com/bushing/android_wm8505 - just a few commits, last 2010-06-03, apparently superseded by other repos