It is good to know that you have first hand experience with this Intel Atom hardware. Maybe things have improved somewhat in the last half a year since the Olimex blog post.
The fundamental difference is that Allwinner at least does not get in the way and provides us with everything that is needed to reimplement/fix the firmware (which is open source, except for some minor bits). While in the case of Intel, you have no choice other than begging for their support and hope that the next firmware update resolves some issues without introducing new ones.
Pine64 may have a bit rocky start, but I think that it has a much better future in the long run. By the way, Intel is laying off a lot of workers nowadays, I wonder if this is going to affect their Atom chips support? It would be really bad to be stuck with a buggy discontinued proprietary firmware.
The fundamental difference is that Allwinner at least does not get in the way and provides us with everything that is needed to reimplement/fix the firmware (which is open source, except for some minor bits). While in the case of Intel, you have no choice other than begging for their support and hope that the next firmware update resolves some issues without introducing new ones.
Pine64 may have a bit rocky start, but I think that it has a much better future in the long run. By the way, Intel is laying off a lot of workers nowadays, I wonder if this is going to affect their Atom chips support? It would be really bad to be stuck with a buggy discontinued proprietary firmware.