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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Orange Pi 5 Plus vs. Rock 5 Model B by ThatPlayer on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:36PM (#37921940)
Yeah, I wouldn't recommend one that doesn't have mainline kernels. But Pine64 does good work on getting stuff upstreamed. The RK3399 used in the PinePhone Pro, the Orange Pi 4, Rock 4, and other boards has proper mainline support. I'm also a fan of the open sourced GPU drivers done by the panfrost team that has desktop OpenGL support (none of that ES stuff).

Pine64's QuartzPro64 board uses the same RK3588 in the Orange Pi 5 Plus and Rock 5B, and they're working on upstreaming support for that: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/QuartzPro64_Development#Upstrea...

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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Orange Pi 5 Plus vs. Rock 5 Model B by rodlette on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:19AM (#37925716)
AFAIK, Pine64 the company don't do any (?) upstreaming.

Upstreaming for Pine64 devices is done by the community: https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=pine64+rk3399+add

QuartzPro64 was recently mainlined by megous. I don't think he's employed or compensated by Pine64, but I'm not sure.

The SoCs are added by Rockchip, Collabora, and others.

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