[rbanffy]

And this is where they fail - the people who gets their boards have almost zero interest in upstreaming whatever hardware enablement they do to make the boards sort of work for their specific use cases.

I really don't think undercutting their evaluation board business with affordable SBCs would hurt their bottom line.

[jsheard]

The people who buy those eval boards probably aren't even allowed to upstream whatever they do with it, they'll have signed an NDA with Qualcomm to get access to the documentation.