07-25-2021, 12:11 PM
(07-25-2021, 07:09 AM)KC9UDX Wrote:(07-25-2021, 06:24 AM)igorp Wrote: They have their engineers for SW support just they are not available for public.
Do you know this for a fact? I'm not being critical, I'm just asking for clarification.
If so, maybe my words aren't fully correct, but the context is the same. From the perspective of us PBP users, Pine64 has nothing to do with the software except to install the default operating system. I expect they don't even actually do this; they probably just copy an image someone else made, onto every eMMC that gets installed.
From perspective of PBP users, Pine64 is delivering software support via proxy - Manjaro. Their cooperation goes back to the old days, to original Pinebook. Its not secret - just look closely if you want to understsand backstage relations.
Linux distros as such have limited low level know-how, they can't bring up hardware without vendor support, but they have working upper level distro functionalities and community (to sell to) that is not hostile when something goes wrong on "bring up to the Linux" devices as such. Manjaro can also distance themselves "we are trying the best, this is best effort community support" and Pine is by default distancing from all what is sw related, all the bad things (anger of delivering half working product for the 1st year of sales, flow of users questions and demands/pleads for support) that are a necesary part of the R&D. It is certainly good for them, for users? Dunno. Just "not dealing with SW" might not be complelty true.
Currently there is different hardware in the oven, but the principle is the same.