> The Linux images are built with a set of Rockchip patches that are based on older Linux releases.
That’s a hard no from me.
Otherwise I’d be all over it, as the specs look great!
That’s a hard no from me.
Otherwise I’d be all over it, as the specs look great!
I'm not running a server farm with 1000's of nodes and full time staff to make Linux work on them. Rather I've got a bunch of homogeneous devices for personal use and the more similar I can make them all the better. It's why I moved away from the embedded ARM dumpster fire to low power amd64 motherboards for my Kodi/WifiAP machines. They generally just work, and if they do break there is still no bespoke tinkering.
The Raspberry Pi only mitigates this by being popular enough that there is interest to keep it going and develop around its warts and keep the software going. But it's not without its pain when you step away from Raspian.
If I needed another AP, I would get another decently powerful but lower idle current machine to replace the main entertainment center one, and then trickle the N3700 elsewhere. Or if I didn't want to do that, I believe I have seen one or two amd64 boards targeted at being RPi replacements. The biggest thing is I want expansion PCIe so I've got flexibility later.
For power supplies, I'm using PicoPSUs on both. But I've also seen motherboards that take 18VDC. Or if you are willing to do some wiring you could power multiple motherboards from one supply.
Arch Linux on ARM has also come a long way in the past few years.