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Thanks Igor - I will switch to nightlies.
(The PJR account is a temporary alter-ego!)

Thanks - I just copied the dtb across from the newer image 

Please stop feeding the troll. Why do we allow people who never understand the answers they get to flood constructive threads with stupid BS?! Is that really necessary?

As far as RPI goes, I will ask around to see what the future might bring (I know people who know) ... but given the ties between the rpi foundation guys and Broadcom, we can expect them to continue to use their silicon and also to stay with something very similar to what they have now.
 
Since Broadcom were taken over by Avago the strategy has changed a bit - and I have seen that in their wifi products, for example. We expect to see the same in their TV products (of which the RPI silicon is an example) eventually. This might mean change for the RPI guys. I can ask around to see what has changed there as this is the technology area that I work in. What I do know is that the Broadcom guys have traditionally been much more expensive than competitors and that they have lost significant share of the TV set top box market to the emerging Chinese vendors. 
 
Perhaps the best idea is to state clearly that the RPIs won't be supported as the Raspbian distro can best cover the needs of the RPI crowd ? Its a simple and clear thing to state and should not be that controversial!
 
BTW, commenting on the lack of availability of the RPI Zero - this is all down to the fact that they lose a pile of money each time they make a batch. and the backstory is that they only released it to get some PR and bash the clones.

Not to fan the flames, but as I received my zero's today, I installed the 4.9 kernel nightly build, updated and the wifi "just works" 
 
Awesome.

Thanks for telling us what's in our best interest. And here I thought we were doing pretty well...
 
 
I'm not sure you understand how open source development works...
 
Sales: We're not selling anything, so we don't really need sales.
 
Product management: Since we're not selling anything, so we don't really need someone to stand on a soap box and tell us what to do.
 
Engineers: Design the hardware, write the software, write documentation for the hardware and software.
 
So if you want to help by writing documentation, or software, then we will welcome your contributions. But no one wants, needs, or asked for a product manager, so don't be surprised when we don't welcome this with open arms. I get enough of PM crap in my 9-5 job.

WTF?! Please stop posting here, it's really annoying how you managed to destroy this whole thread. You called the raw MLC NAND (cheap and unreliable!) on the CHIP eMMC (more expensive) which is just wrong. It's ok if you don't get the differences between both technologies but please stop spreading BS all the time.
 
In case you want to learn the differences look here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/brezillon-mlc-nand_0.pdf
 
 
@Igor: how can we stop this? This thread was about progress with OPi Zero and has now been completely destroyed by flooding it with untrue statements ('good' WiFi on the CHIP and other non-sense) and marketing BS / stupid comparisons from hardware vendor's perspective.

@tkaiser
 
We could cut the part of the thread off and move it to the Free? Except I have never done it.

NAND is specific type of flash device. eMMC is a system made of a few chips / devices - and could contain any kind of storage that fits into the physical specifications allowed. If you can't work out the difference, spend some time reading up on SW and HW, and there come back and comment.
 
As for your comments on Wifi, perhaps you could go and read around a little before complaining about what is done here.
 
BTW, I have only been doing engineering 31 years, so I could be wrong. Oh, and if you want to call people "thick", perhaps instead you should get off that "product management" horse and do a proper job instead - I have fired more people with your attitude than I care to remember.
 
@tkaiser, @zador.blood.stained, @hmartin - I'm so inflamed by this thread that I feel compelled to make a generous donation.
Keep up the good work guys!

Igor,
 
I finished and tested autoloading patch with opi2 and bpim2+. I think it is safe to assume that we no longer need to wory about wifi drivers, at least until new version of bcmdhd module shows up.
 
bcmdhd WOW patch:
https://github.com/jernejsk/OpenELEC-OPi2/blob/e148c9b4d685ca3987364177d9c7db519c6345a0/projects/H3/patches/linux/linux-202-bcmdhd-add-wow-selection.patch
 
wifi auto power on & load patch:
https://github.com/jernejsk/OpenELEC-OPi2/blob/e148c9b4d685ca3987364177d9c7db519c6345a0/projects/H3/patches/linux/linux-203-rf_pm-auto-power-on.patch

@scargill - Pete - have you done an "lsusb" to identify the dongle. If you do that I will happily help you sort it out.
 
... and thanks for your blog ... you are responsible for spiking my interest in all this stuff 
 
Jason