LAN/NIC problem

[stepw]

In other words: It really looks promising for all those use cases where Pine64+ is a really nice device, benefitting from high GbE performance, virtualization and so on

Virtualization is a bit of a hit and miss so far, at least for me. Although EL2 is there thanks to U-Boot patches, Xen doesn't have an allwinner,sun50i-uart char driver yet, so hard to debug beyond earlyprintk state and KVM fails to run OVMF/EDK-II UEFI. A64 uart doesn't seem to be backwards compatible and recommendation for OVMF failures is "If OVMF fails to boot on QEMU (with KVM), try disabling KVM." 

1Gbps, HW-accelerated virtualization were some of the main reasons I got a Pine64+ and not much luck with either one.