Allwinner

[nomadewolf]

Allwinner seems to want to get market share in this boards

Why should they? They sell millions of SoCs for Android gadgets where nobody cares about quality of drivers or this disturbing 'open source' thing.

Just look at all the new boards that came and are comming out.
All based on Allwinner SoCs... Why is that? I suppose it's because Allwinner is practically giving them away, and reason to do that is gaining market share. If i'm not mistaken, Allwinner is a recent competitor so it makes sense.
Also "this disturbing 'open source' thing" that nobody cares means that we could have a better chance of accelerated graphics in linux, wich is something that really makes a difference to me.

Do you know have  other chinese cpu socs is no open source ?

Is not only allwinner  , i don't know why no one say this

I do know that.
In fact i would even farther and say that i don't know any chinese cpu SoC that is open source.
I althought i would much rather have it opensource, i would be happy with good driver support from them.
But we have neither.
And that's the real deal breaker, for me at least.
I do not speak of others, because this forum is about Allwinner and Pine64.
We want it to succeed and be better, and for that we must point what we perceive as flaws.

The thing is, other than the Raspberry Pi, no other SBC was able to acheive real success. And the reasons i perceive for that are great support and accelerated graphics.

Just my 2 cents, which i sincerely hope helps Allwinner and Pine64 achieve great success!