Star64 questions

[ALBNC1974]

if the only possibly compatible
AC adapter that I have is only 2 amps at 12 V, will that suffice?

It will probably boot up, but don't expect you can attach a whole bunch of devices, which need power from the device.

Secondly, is there any official support from a major distro that would
be applicable to this board, given that it uses a well known processor?

I wouldn't count on it. People who buy the device now are (more) expected to help make that a reality.

So far, I’ve been using a 1.5A ps without any issues, but no other devices connected to it that would draw additional power, and haven’t really stressed it much.  

The board is very similar to the starfive viisionfive 2, to the extent that the pre-flashed firmware has a number of visionfive strings present in it.  

I’ve successfully booted the visionfive 2 Debian image on the board, but Ethernet seems to have an odd issue where it refuses to dhcp, but will static assign an address fine.   I’m assuming the Ethernet implementation is different enough to matter.  

I haven’t tried the recently released Ubuntu for visionfive 2 yet.  That may be on tap for the coming weekend, but I know that @Fishwaldo has put a lot of work into a yocto image built specifically for the star64:   https://github.com/Fishwaldo/meta-pine64