the reason Pi has not done the USB3 is because of those binary blobs you mentioned.

for my use i will stick with the Pi. or move on to an intel compute stick.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:

Saw this kickstarter link earlier:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1771382379/firefly-rk3399-six-core-64-bit-high-performance-pl/ .  They say that they're putting together an ARM single-board machine with USB 3 ports, 1, 2, or 4G of RAM, dual-monitor capability, and the ability to run Android or Ubuntu.  "Like a Raspberry Pi but with more power" seems to be what they were going for.

This sounds sort of interesting, even though it's a bit more expensive than a Pi.  The kickstarter's fully funded, and it looks like these people have already built and shipped a couple of other ARM boards.  Main problem I could see is that the hardware will probably be dependent on binary blobs and it'll be a PITA to run anything but whatever kernel they give you.  The Pi also has a large community that has hashed out many problems, while this system will probably involve new and exciting bugs.  Thoughts?

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