>He's reviewing the board as is and not assuming future progress that may or may not take place in some undetermined time. Absolutely, but he does (for the cry

>He's reviewing the board as is and not assuming future progress that may or may not take place in some undetermined time. Absolutely, but he does (for the cryptography example) mention that future chips will do better in this regard. Why would he do this, and not mention the cryptography engine present in this very SoC? What's most likely is he managed to overlook this SoC has this hardware. >I want to buy a board for what it can do now This board clearly isn't for you. >kernel updates that are not guaranteed. Having kernel patches already sent upstream for review[0] is a much better situation than potentially having nothing. 0. https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan