I sent this to the kickstarter email as well but please consider doing this with POE.  this box would be perfect for a bunch of wired network connected stuff and the ability to power them from the ethernet switches without individual power supplies would be fantastic (and something that the Pi guys have not done)

PoE is not that hard to do and would save people who have powered switches a lot of headache running both Cat5/6 wires and the little USB dongles to power the thing.

http://linux-sunxi.org/GPL_Violations

I'm in no way an expert, but on paper they're good, however due to open source practices their GPUs never perform as well as their specs imply. How is this being taken into account? How will this impact my experience with your device?

Can you provide some addition details on the upcoming 7inch touch display such as: 

• Capacitive or Resistive Touch? 
  
• TN or IPS?
  
• Transmissive / Reflective / Transflective?
  
• Viewing Angle?
  
• PPI  (pixel density)?
  
• DSI / LVDS or HDMI interface?
  
• 18bit / 24bit color?
  
• Refresh Rate?
  
• etc.. 
  

How do you guys think Pine A64 will hold up as a plex server? 
I guess the 2gb ram version would be the best for this...

How do you guys think Pine A64 will hold up as a plex server? 
I guess the 2gb ram version would be the best for this...

How about developing software for the board?

I'm curious if the board would be any good for system development and prototyping. Most of the site focuses on "end user" applications and systems, while I'm only interested in the board as a basis for combined hardware/software development. A few detailed questions that come to mind here:

Can I get the sources for the images and compile them myself?

Is there support for Yocto and OpenEmbedded?


If I configure and build my own mainline kernel for this board, will I still be able to decode video in hardware?

I was just wondering what the dimensions for the board are, so I can work towards making an enclosure. I have looked and I haven't been able to find it around here.

will the Pi-2 bus be memory mapped to the same addresses as the original?  it would be a killer feature if you could use unmodified code for the Pi-2 on the pine 64.

hi
is it possible to discuss to get more memory such as 4GB (or more). I think a lot of people would appreciate this.
There are a lot of days left in Kickstarter but i think for now almost everyone goes to the 2GB (because there is not more to buy).
thx for thinking about that
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Hi
In the presentation video, we can see 4k content. The Android dev is more advanced  and you said in Kickstarter page that Kodi run on Android so i imagine that Android is used on Pine for this 4k video. But on Kodi official page : http://kodi.wiki/view/Android_hardware we don't know what codecs A64 SoC can HW decode.

Do you have any details on codecs currently supported by Kodi on Android (even if they are not fully optimized yet, i totally understand that !) ?

Thanks for all !