Friendly board vendors

[VeronikaKerman]

Dear members of the forums. I am shopping for a new single board computer, already have a few manufacturers, but I am not sure yet.

Couple years ago I bought BPI-M2U from Sinvoip, and I regretted that soon. Sinvoip was not providing good documentation nor open source contributions of drivers.

So to avoid the same situation, I'd like to ask which manufacturers are co-share, contribute to open source and don't sell boards with schematic errors?

 

• Orange Pi (4)
• Khadas (Vim3)
• Friendly Elec (m4)
• Odroid (N2)

 

Thank you in advance and sorry if this is not the right forum.

[Igor]

42 minutes ago, VeronikaKerman said:

Couple years ago I bought BPI-M2U from Sinvoip, and I regretted that soon. Sinvoip was not providing good documentation

 

Their problem is / was ? poor / terrible documentation, bad choice of hardware, ... 

 

42 minutes ago, VeronikaKerman said:

nor open source contributions of drivers.

 

42 minutes ago, VeronikaKerman said:

• Orange Pi (4)
• Khadas (Vim3)
• Friendly Elec (m4)
• Odroid (N2)

 

They are selling hardware. They are not working much if anything on driver open sourcing but at least they are professional in documenting their work (assembling single board computer). There is some support from Orangepi and FriednlyElec towards Armbian here and there. They help covering some of the electricity we consume ... 

 

Some small investments into driver open sourcing are done by chip vendors and here and there by board vendor for their limited specific functionality ... The rest - community.