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You're just not the target audience, they make it clear that it's a device in its early stage of development. The goal is clearly to build a community that will
by boudin 5y ago
You're just not the target audience, they make it clear that it's a device in its early stage of development.
The goal is clearly to build a community that will help building an open-source ecosystem around this kind of device.
- CameronNemo 5y agoThe kernel drivers should already be open source. Just not upstreamed because rockchip doesn't develop upstream first, they only do it later and partially. Nobody has attempted to reverse engineer the boot blobs. Hard to do. My question is: why rockchip? Why not focus on amlogic or mediatek? What does rockchip offer the open source community that other vendors don't?
- officeplant 5y agoThe move from Allwinner to Rockchip was mirrored by many of the other Pi competitors in what seems to be mostly a need for more performant SoCs. Given a lot of this market is driven by fabless Shenzhen based companies it probably comes down to the right mix of drivers/production/price. Although given Mediatek has been moving up a lot in the world and powering some really nice budget devices (Lenovo Chromebook/Chrome Tablets come to mind) I really hope for some sort of mediatek SBC to materialize as ARM adoption grows. For now chromebooks remain one of the only ways for me to get linux (via crostini) ARM devices with any sort of performance vs slowly tinkering around on a Pinebook Pro.
- jandrese 5y agoIt seems insane that they're trying to build a community of support, but then have little to no documentation for so much of the hardware. If your product depends on the community for success maybe you should try to help that community succeed?