The Raspberry Pi foundation picked a chip they were familiar with as Broadcom employees. I can't fault them for that, but at this point chips like the Allwinner

The Raspberry Pi foundation picked a chip they were familiar with as Broadcom employees. I can't fault them for that, but at this point chips like the Allwinner H3 & A series have better support mainlined than the Raspberry Pi 2 & 3. I say this having tried Raspbian & Debian on each platform, and having tried more advanced features (like VC4, which seems to crash my Raspberry Pi 3 after a minute while scraping by & giving me 59fps). I understand the choices they made, but a helpful vendor that incidentally creates a community that then supplants its support would be the ultimate end game, and that is where the sunxi community is at at this point. Perhaps the Raspberry Pi foundation can fix VC4 and get mainline distros to support them, but severe bugs[1] & Raspbian including non-redistributable images[2] have tempered my enthusiasm to spend time on their SBC, as it seems like a hot mess that could drag me down with it into a licensing & bug ridden abyss. [1] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1354 https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1354 [2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/56e3vh/has_any_user_of_pixel_actually_read_the_license/ https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/56e3vh/has_an...