Comment by jauntywundrkind
2 days ago
There's been solid progress.
But Rockchip is no longer selling to SBC folk & no longer participating at all in mainlining.
Theres almost no one left to buy chips from, basically. Hope everyone's happy using rpi forever, cause that's where 2025 has left us. :/
MediaTek has some Genio chips they're starting to make available but explorer boards are quite expensive. These new Cix people have an incredible looking 8x A720, which Radxa is using on an upcoming Orion O6 board. But man it is just so sad to see company after company after company collapse & disappear from making chips usable by SBC.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/21/rockchip-rk3588-main...
Only certain SBC suppliers, namely Orange Pi, were stopped from supplying chips by Rockchip because they violated the treaty.
Rockchip employees have been upstreaming their drivers, your claim is unfounded. Just check the linux-rockchip mailing list.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-rockchip/list/
When you start wanting decent RAM, SBC end up being expensive.
Kontron (Fujitsu) have some very low-power, efficient motherboard, the Kontron K3843-B. Also, Odroid-H4+ deliver a good bang for the buck. Excellent devices for low-power NAS / server. But a different form-factor than SBC.