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Odroid boards are pretty great, they took end-user needs seriously when designing the their later products. At the time, they sold one of the only consumer ARM

Odroid boards are pretty great, they took end-user needs seriously when designing the their later products. At the time, they sold one of the only consumer ARM boards that had a separate controller/bus for their gigabit ethernet and USB 3 controllers[1]. Hardkernel has also been patching new kernels for their boards, which is a breath of fresh air. Usually, consumer ARM boards, other than Raspberry Pi Foundation's offerings, are tied to single kernel release and, unless you wanted to commit a lot of time to building your own patchsets, they'd never see a kernel update. [1] http://www.hardkernel.com/main/_Files/prdt/2016/201602/201506191222574523.png http://www.hardkernel.com/main/_Files/prdt/2016/201602/20150...

floatboth 8y ago
Rockchip has quite a lot of mainline Linux support http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Status_Matrix#Mainline_Kernel_Status_Matrix http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Status_Matrix#Mainline... and good documentation.
rogerbinns 8y ago
> that had a separate controller/bus for their gigabit ethernet and USB 3 controllers Are you sure? As far as I could tell, they had a single USB 3 controller that had a 2 port hub. One port was connected to gigabit ethernet, while the other was connected to another two port hub which is the two ports on the device. ie all devices connected to USB 3 and the gigabit are sharing the controller and bandwidth. The background is the Exynos chip used was intended for the cell phone market, where there is no need for multiple USB 3 controllers, in addition the existing USB 2 controllers.