How would they get traction when they have Raspberry Pi right there next to them?
Besides the price, anyway.
Spending money on linux devs who are available to help work through problems and keep systems up to date.
And how would that work compared to the army of free ones on the Raspberry Pi side?
Re:Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO
by alright2565 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @03:22PM
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You're not looking in the right places. I've had great experiences with EmbeddedTS, and their kernel seems to be close to upstream.
Re:Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO
by kogepathic on Thursday May 16, 2024 @11:57PM
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> The TS-7250-V3 is an industrial grade SBC based on the NXP i.MX 6UL with a 696MHz Arm® Cortex®-A7 core and 512 MB or 1 GB DDR3 RAM
This is their latest "High performance industrial grade embedded computer" that I can see on their website
Of course you'll have good upstream support for something as old as the i.MX6UL, it's been out for 8 years (7 years at the time they released the TS-7250-V3).
No wonder Raspberry Pi has upended the market, when a single core Cortex-A7 is the competition.
Even an Allwinner chip that has a terrible BSP at release has good upstream support 7 years later.
The irony here is that other SOC/SBC makers are focused more on throwing a barely stable design onto AliExpress for $20 than investing in good upstream support that would allow them to charge a premium.
Raspberry Pi wasn't always able to charge a premium, that benefit came from years of investment into software and community. I have not yet seen another SOC vendor or board partner realize this in any significant way.