There’s quite the market for ARM-powered single board computers with Rockchip, Amlogic, Allwinner, Broadcom, and other system-on-chip (SoC) brands at its heart.

There’s quite the market for ARM-powered single board computers with Rockchip, Amlogic, Allwinner, Broadcom, and other system-on-chip (SoC) brands at its heart... Depending on what device you buy, you may or may not get excellent support from the manufacturer, an online community, or maybe even books and magazines with step-by-step instructions. In many cases, the device isn’t fully supported by the “vanilla” Linux kernel, so you’re either stuck with some old kernel build or, by using a newer mainline kernel, you miss out on some features and performance optimizations that haven’t been upstreamed yet. Could anyone recommend something in this class that does have good linux support with the vanilla kernel?