That sounds unfortunate, I was under the impression that imx series socs were relatively foss friendly and in particular the vivante gpu would be well-supported

That sounds unfortunate, I was under the impression that imx series socs were relatively foss friendly and in particular the vivante gpu would be well-supported by free etnaviv driver. Quick googling found that Debian Buster (i.e. oldstable at this point) should work relatively smoothly? > On 2017-12-14 Debian Buster (currently 'testing') was tested and running GNOME on Wandboard almost worked right out of the box. (In Buster the GNOME session uses Wayland by default instead of Xorg.) The only change needed was reserving contiguous memory, see the 'cma' section above. https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Wandboard https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Wandboard