You just need to look harder to find ARM SoC-s with mainline Linux support. Allwinner SoC have pretty active community that provides really good hw support. ht

You just need to look harder to find ARM SoC-s with mainline Linux support. Allwinner SoC have pretty active community that provides really good hw support. https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page Pine64 and Olimex have several hw boards available to buy. Another one is NXP IM.X series that also has really good mainline Linux support.