[jdietrich]

Open drivers, open documentation. Trying to work with these cheap SoCs is like pulling teeth, because their manufacturers are completely indifferent to the open source community. Video drivers are a particular sticking point.

[makomk]

They're working on it. The company behind C.H.I.P seems to be paying someone to develop drivers for it and get them into upstream Linux, including non-accelerated video drivers. A lot of the hardware on this era of Allwinner SoC actually already has support thanks to community efforts, too.