(10-14-2017, 11:31 PM)elatllat Wrote: I wonder if the rock64 could be made to work with the 1080p pi-top
Interesting thought but I guess that all the bits and pieces like power and battery management, display brightness, sound etc are hardware specific and tie in with Pi Top's own OS and unlikely to work with the OS images for Rock 64 without some hackery?
(10-15-2017, 03:01 AM)stuartiannaylor Wrote: But its just opinion and for me RK3328 = device, RK3399 = netbook and its sort of what the Rockchip engineers designed for.
Roadmaps and product planning are (for me) all about working out how you can leverage the most out of a platform. Pinebook leverages on Pine64 and Sopine. Bit of a shame that Rock64 is one of the cul-de-sacs you mention.
For my day-job, I've been looking at lower end ARM MCUs from the likes of TI, NXP, ST Micro, etc. There's some interesting silicon out there but what makes or breaks the deal isn't the chip - its the software, driver and BSP support. If its not there, or flaky/unfinished, then the hours of development needed can make a chip non-viable. Some vendors get this and some don't. I guess it's a similar problem.