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The devices they make that don't ship with Linux on them are pretty good, those are also easier to get fully functional software since the scope is so much smaller.

The whole linux side is just a bit of a mess

>>Martij+(OP)
Do you think RISC-V will make any difference for the Pine64 situation (especially the SPI flash)? I remember seeing something about a UEFI standard. Would that help?

>>freedo+wg
There are standards for ARM bootloaders to have UEFI compat. Pine64 just needs to care.

>>freedo+wg
RISC-V works exactly the same as ARM from the perspective of pine64 and distribution and it will not solve anything

>>freedo+wg
The currently shipping affordable RISC-V SBCs tend to be RISC-V cores embedded with a bunch of frustrating undocumented peripherals, more or less the same as with affordable ARM SBCs. It's disappointing :(

See for instance the Allwinner D1 chip.