Edited by fritz at 2015-11-29 12:43

Hey was hoping this board wouldn't fail as it uses a PowerVR GPU and I love GPU programming and testing.
Figured like minded people here might be interested in helping and wanting the project succeed.

Here is the link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projec ... ux/x/5018249#/story

There marketing sucks monkey balls and i'm just trying to help out as I want one ;p

Well, the situation with Actions Semi will be the same as with Allwinner now. If there's some help from the manufacturer (providing specs, documentation, source code) and if a community arises then the software situation will improve automagically for all boards sharing the same SoC. This is the reason why Orange Pi and the Mini had excellent software support from the very beginning (since everything already existed due to Cubieboards, the linux-sunxi community and LeMaker -- they ported the GPIO stuff from the Raspberry Pi) and this is the very same reason why the software situation with the H3 based boards sucks.
LeMaker tries to sell 1 SoM and 1 SBC based on Actions Semi's SoCs: http://www.lemaker.org

And they claim everything has changed regarding Actions Semi and their relationship to the open source community:

http://www.lemaker.org/forum.php ... 81505&fromuid=33332
http://www.lemaker.org/forum.php ... 81524&fromuid=33332

If this is true, if the Lemon Pi gets sold and isn't just a piece of buggy silicone you can be assured that it will work sometimes in the future. Running Android since you're interested in GPU stuff (Imagination/PowerVR wasn't interested in the Linux community at all in the past and at the moment all you can expect is some HW acceleration in VLC for PowerVR GPUs running in Linux).

I could be wrong, but I think you waisted your money.
Another Fruit board, same cinese marketing scheme.
Many promises and not a single line of code!
probably 0 support and 0 documentation.
Good luck!

Edited by bronco at 2015-7-15 14:35

This board tries to use an Actions Semi SoC. You can have a look here what sunxi developers (linux-sunxi community is around Allwinner's SoCs) think about: https://groups.google.com/forum/ ... diWSp4/Ds5snG8ZHTkJ

Most important quotes:


And


And most importantly (regarding the money spent by supporters of the 'next Pi around the corner'):



Good luck, situation with Actions Semi is like with Allwinner 3 years ago. Might change according to LeMaker (go to their site and realize that they're about to release 2 SBCs in the next weeks based an S500 and S900 -- they claim they now get better support from Actions Semi than from Allwinner) but only time will tell.

Aww I didn't notice it was "Flexible campaign".  Its the first thing iv'e ever backed on IndieGoGo, thats total BS.
Probably did get ripped one there.