Why not SOPINE?

[bobpaul]

Whether it will be upgradeable or not is a question for the Pine engineers and TLLim;  however, I don't see why not.

You know, I hadn't considered the possibility of swapping the entire board out of the chassis. But you're right; my vision of a small glue logic/power board + sopine really isn't necessary to provide an upgrade path. Let's hope that's where it goes.

I would imagine that the answer is as follows: Since there was already a reference design by Allwinner,  it was easier to improve on the reference design (btw, they sure did improve it!) than to create a design from scratch.

I guess what I was thinking would have been to use the reference design but route to an SODIMM connector instead of directly to the A64. But I was missing the obvious reason that wasn't necessary...