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Most of these chips have perfectly fine Linux kernel support, it just comes more from the community rather than the vendor, and that is a common practice among
by squarefoot 4y ago
Most of these chips have perfectly fine Linux kernel support, it just comes more from the community rather than the vendor, and that is a common practice among pretty much all manufacturers other than the Raspberry PI Foundation. Just pick the distribution that suits your needs. Either the usual ones that already support the ARM architecture (Debian, Alpine, etc) or others specifically made for embedded systems such as Armbian and DietPI. Hardware support is a moving target; if your board doesn't appear there today, check the forums, then return in a week. The amount of work these folks are doing is amazing and well worth of donations and other contribution.
https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported
https://dietpi.com/#download https://dietpi.com/#download
Using a distribution developed by the community is a lot better than relying from the vendor: no planned obsolescence because the vendor wants to sell the latest board, and great integration between different boards from different manufacturers. Of course that means some more time to wait until support by the community reaches a stable state, which I concur can be a subjective problem; not a huge one however.
- ekianjo 4y ago> Most of these chips have perfectly fine Linux kernel support, it just comes more from the community rather than the vendor So you mean no actual support and bug fix is pretty much never once the community moved on. "The community" is not a magic bullet.
- squarefoot 4y agoI wrote that there's no lack of support due to planned obsolescence, which is very different. Of course the community too eventually moves on, but that usually happens a lot later than the product goes out of production.