[trome]

If you look at that space, the OrangePi Zero and others all run Linux, not *BSD. Nintendo & Sony have both chosen to go and build on BSD for their high end consoles so they can have tight control and give nothing back, but the NES Classic runs Linux as porting BSD doesn't make sense.

[AsyncAwait]

> the OrangePi Zero and others all run Linux

I am not talking about dev boards, I am talking about Chinese OEMs that do not give a crap about open-source.

> give nothing back

Exactly, that's the allure of BSD/MIT for these sorts of companies.

[trome]

> I am not talking about dev boards, I am talking about Chinese OEMs that do not give a crap about open-source.

As far as I can discern, they literally do not give a crap and do the bare minimum to get a half working Linux BSP so they can run an ancient version of Android. Then it gets used for your security camera, and that is why you have 20 shitty IP cams running kernel 2.6 calling home to Hunan Province.

That BSP will rarely be released to the public, much less mainlined, and it is sure to be mixing proprietary code with GPL'ed code. *BSD doesn't even factor into the equation, since GPL compliance doesn't matter to Allwinner or Rockchip.