12-03-2022, 01:11 PM
(03-26-2022, 05:53 PM)TRS-80 Wrote: In SBC world, it can take years for devices to become well supported in Linux. Which is why ROCKPro64 (or any RK3399 based devices) are at the sweet spot right now. It will probably be another year until RK3566 based devices get to the same level of maturity.
In this case, not true. The only ways we're behind RK3399 in mainline support right now in the Linux kernel is rkvdec hwdec and ISP. The rest is things that either RK3399 doesn't have mainlined yet either (encode) or things it doesn't have (NPU). We're just struggling in the u-boot/tf-a department right now, which doesn't matter as much if you use EDKII.
In general, RK356x got mainlined a lot faster than RK3399, with a lot less support from the SoC vendor (Rockchip).
(03-26-2022, 05:53 PM)TRS-80 Wrote: Also, I hate to be the one to have to break it to you, but BSD is quite far behind Debian (Armbian), in SBC context I mean. I have seen a scant couple threads here and there but not much, unfortunately.
The forum activity is a bad source of information for this. People have been running NetBSD for a while with the EDKII port. In general, people who run BSD are a lot more likely to also contribute to development, so chatter in general is a bad indicator.
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