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by ilyt 1256 days ago
> Maybe their stuff is "good enough" in those cases where cheap trumps everything else?

Well doh.

First of those cheap multimedia CPUs that figures out that having good docs/"out of the box" working open support gives them sales will eat the market.

Also aren't allwinner chips one of better mainstream kernel supported ones out of ARM bunch ?

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Allwinner SoCs have very good mainline support, including most of their multimedia capabilities and can run LibreELEC just fine.
Not this one.

> Nope. While basic Linux support is slowly materializing, two major blockers are still at the same spot - HDMI audio (no useful driver) and bug in display driver (big code change may be required to fix it).

https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/24275-allwinner-h616-suppo...