Adam Tooze just gave an address in Zurich and talks about this very question… apparently China is very well aware of this issue and is currently “working on it”

I’m rather hoping RISC-V comes up and eats their lunch before it happens.

My reasoning for this is that I’ve lost too many hours trying to kludge finnicky ARM boards into supporting proper mainline video acceleration. It’s awful. It’s horrible. It’s a waste of time.

The silly x86 SBC I got worked out of the box with OneAPI with no complaints at all.

The ARM boards ran the gamut from gibberish/garbage rendering, dropped frames, washed out images because of cheap tricks to up performance.

I know this is more down to the weak (and proprietary) video cores included on these boards… but after spending a significant amount of time playing with them, I’m going to say “No, thank you.”

I really don’t care until I can buy one. In the meantime I have a few hdd’s and an old LTO4 drive…