very helpful, I probably will stick with NXP chips then(its software seems updated fairly often and its chips are usually solid) instead of TI's, after all TI pretty much left the ARM chip space comparing to other larger ARM chip vendors. For NXP's imx6/7/8 I wish there were similar open source communities as RPi and Beagle board have, there are a few commercial i.mx vendors but not a well known open one for NXP, which is unfortunate.