> If the banana pi r1 were fully supported, it would be a reasonably priced > candidate, but that still begs the question of why it has to be armv7. > There are a lot of low cost low power amd64 boards on the market and if you > run stable and have an existing build infrastructure (like I do), you can > build considerably faster on a big amd64 box and roll out updates quicker > (compared to building on, say, a beaglebone black).
In the last few months the amd64 kernel gained some pretty significant kernel hardening. When is the equivelant happening for the arm codebase? Probably never, just to start with the various arm mmus are wimpier.
