Peba

Main added value of our build system is bringing down the complexity. We could also say: what's written on that page and scattered around various external links (and which require advanced knowledge to understand) is with Armbian summed under one command.

Well, Armbian (as a build system) is not about reinventing the wheel, but is about supporting a large number of boards and platforms with as little board/platform specific tweaks as possible while compiling from sources as much as possible. If adding a new board/platform requires changes to the build script, there needs to be a good reason to do this.
And providing official images for the new platform requires enough hardware samples for the team - some polishing always requires access to the hardware if you don't want to spend weeks instead of hours if relying on somebody else to do the live testing.

There is the fan header, Zador found that out by looking at schematic: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1095-miqi-is-a-35-single-board-computer-with-rockchip-rk3288/?p=8338
 
I'm pretty impressed by the performance (and possible tweaks, see at the bottom of this page) but believe it would be necessary to come up with a fully blown desktop Armbian image since here the board seems to perform pretty well (GPU and video acceleration). For headless use cases the lack of IO bandwidth could be a problem. Anyway, I would appreciate if Peter starts with that and would assume Benn Huang could be asked to send out a few more developer samples.

Yes, if you can do the job of bringing the device into the build system. Since this is a new chip for us, it could not be plain simple. In general we don't have much / (me) any experiences with Rockchip and at least one of us would need to get this device, since porting and supporting without a hardware is no go ... except cloned boards. The chip is powerful / interesting but for the rest I would need to check closely. At least powering with micro USB is not a good idea and I hope there is an  alternative way.

http://www.bitkistl.com/2016/08/miqi-sbc-v10-hands-on.html
https://forum.mqmaker.com/t/miqi-use-hw-pack-to-port-other-linux-distros/497
 
Would it be useful to have armbian on this device ?
 
Best Regards,
Peter
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