Hello,
I am very interested in the Pocket Reform, but I fear that after some years there is no kernel support for the hardware anymore.
How long will this hardware work with up to date software?
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Greg
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The Reform itself has been out for a while. Both the Pocket and Reform itself are on a 6* based kernel. (read: current) The kernels have been keeping up, and so I see no time in which this wouldn’t be the case so long as the lights are on at MNT / Josch.
In theory, even without MNT, if there’s enough of a community around it, then hopefully someone else may take on updating for it.
Plus, as it’s modular, it’s not like it’s limited to installed hardware… my only concern is the community getting spread thin by all the possible configurations…
a x86 cpu module option would be a great option for long term support.
I had bad experiences with ARM (Allwinner A20, A64, Pinephone) in this regard in the past. I like to use my gear for a very long time.
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I plan to maintain a Gentoo mnt rk3588 kernel overlay and binhost mirror once I get the hardware.
I already have cross build environment set up for raspberry pi, with some tweaking it should work with rk3588.
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I would put my hope on risc-v cpu, x86 produce too much heat and classic reform and pocket reform are toward fanless design.
The recent risc-v vector processing seem pretty promising performance wise.
Is there any difference in the chance of a long term support between the available cpu options (A311D, RK3588) ?
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I’m know little about A311D, RK3588 right now has almost open source boot chain and this is one of the reason I choose RK3588 instead of A311D.
The other reason I choose RK3588 is because it has better performance.