Hi

I have an external USB drive that I plan to use with Android as a media centre. It's a 1TB drive, about half full of stuff, currently formatted as EXT4 due to being previously attached to an old Popcorn Hour A210.

Does the current (latest) Android image support EXT4 for external drives?

Are there any plans for a GPS board like Adafriut's Ultimate GPS HAT for the Raspberry Pi?

So I got my Pine64 in the mail the other day, and I bought some fancy new microSD cards for it for experimentation. I've got it all hooked up to my RPi dev station. Now, is there a Debian based Linux release somewhere in the wild I can play with? Google is failing me with an answer. All I've found is Android and Arch. I guess I can make do with Arch, but couldn't care less about Android. Most posts and updates are from early February, when not many people had their boards. Am I just one of the first to receive it? 

I thought it would be nice to have some microSD card performance numbers so people can pick the right card for their application.

I used the same tests as explained here: http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-g...crosd-card

I have two SD cards:

• PNY U3 Turbo Performance 32GB Class 10 UHS-I
  
• Transcend 32GB MicroSDHC Class10 UHS-1
  

I designed a simple 3d printed case since there didn't seem to be one out there already. Nothing fancy but it works.

STLs available here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1428977

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Are there any plans to support OP-TEE Open Source TEE for ARM Trustzone

http://www.linaro.org/blog/core-dump/op-...ss-market/

Is there any word on a fix for the overscan issues experienced by me and a few other users here?

I would like to do a summary what OS the board can support now and for the futurs, with link to dowload and release date if possible.

now :

Android 5.1, remix OS
 for linux: 
Archlinux
ubuntu 
debian
another?

futur: ?

openelec
windows 10
android 6.0
chromium
ubuntu familly ( lubuntu, snappy ect...)
another?

Since Google is the new evil empire out to destroy privacy, I refuse to feed my data into their gaping maw. On the downside, Android is a good OS and I'd like to play with it if possible.

So, will it be possible to run Remix OS without a Google account? I can get apps from the Amazon appstore other such places, I just wanted to make sure that Remix doesn't require an account (like JoliOS does).

Thanks for any info you've got on this.

So with my notice of my extra charge going through, I'm hoping i'll be looking at this shipping to me soon, but I had a couple questions regarding the hardware and some functionality. 

1) What type of touchscreen is the one that is being advertised?  Is it a capacitive touchscreen?  If not, are there plans on possibly offering one in the future? 

2) I assume the touchscreen will connect though the headers on the board itself, and not require the HDMI port.  So will the HDMI port will output at the same resolution as the touchscreen if/when it's plugged up?  My current plans are to build a set-top android box, and i'd like to have the HDMI out as an option to hook it up to a larger external display. 

3) I saw where someone ran some benchmarks on the Pine, and in some heavy testing, experienced some thermal throttling.  Are there any current heat sinks that work well with the pine?  Or are there any plans to have some made/sold through the pine shop when it opens? 

Thanks to anyone who can provide answers or information.