by
igorp » Tue Jun 25, 2019 1:41 pm
pavelectric wrote:
igorp, thanks for the reply.
Just most people want to have a finished product in the form of an operating system image.
And with the RK3399 everything is not at all clear. No one can make a GOOD BASE version for a long time.
What is the reason I don’t know, but I see the 3399 as a buggy chip that the same Hardkernel refused, and they did it for a reason.
And the near future is visible for S922 or A311 chips.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with this chip. Development takes time - it usually takes around 2 years to get some (simpler than this) silicon on the (stable) levels you expect. Have some mainline support etc ... while boards are getting more complicated and speaking for people around Armbian, less and less time + just a few % of R&D costs are covered - by FA, Orangepi, Olimex. You can't push people that invest mainly their own time to get things fixed. Join and become a part of problem solvers ... this is the only way to get things done faster.
Hardkernel ditched their product due to raising memory costs and also perhaps because they didn't want to join/co-support development for this RK3399 wagon. Just a few board makers have strong development. FriendlyARM, Hardkernel, Pine64 have engineers working a lot on those, other less, some almost none or very minimal. But they sell very similar boards ... and waits that things gets moved up. If you rush with development too much and your sales sucks, you can easily directly support competition R&D. At least Armbian doesn't have problems of this kind - its complicated.