Anyway it's wild that so many of those boards went thru so much effort to develop and produce it yet software is at best provided in alpha state.
You'd think compared to developing SBC that should be small part of it and done and ready before chips/boards are made but even now even the most popular rPi still doesn't have fully upstreamed support and need patches.
Makes me miss the "bloated" BIOS and x86 architecture...
So +/- a year and there is a chance for one that "just works" without fuckery? Nice, I might pick up one for some home automation.
Specs wise it looks pretty interesting as it could be used as pretty much all in one (2x ethernet for router, PCIe for storage, even work as WiFi AP I'd assume) for what I currently have router and NAS for.
This Star64 board looks like a nice contender to the RPi4. Unfortunately, they don't ship to my country. It would be nice if future iterations of these boards came with at least one mini PCIe socket, so that you can add a 4G modem. The PineCube looks interesting as well.
Theoretical 400 MB/s, and people are reporting an actual 375 on the VisionFive 2, which uses the same JH7110 SoC and brings that PCIe lane out to an M.2 socket.
Anyway it's wild that so many of those boards went thru so much effort to develop and produce it yet software is at best provided in alpha state.
You'd think compared to developing SBC that should be small part of it and done and ready before chips/boards are made but even now even the most popular rPi still doesn't have fully upstreamed support and need patches.
Makes me miss the "bloated" BIOS and x86 architecture...