It is currently the Chinese New Year holiday, all work and responses are delayed. They sent the first batch of boards to early birds and developers in advance so that they can get familiar with the hardware in advance.
Who will take care of adding support for the board in mainline kernel? Radxa? Cixtech? Someone paid by one of them? Or random people from community in their spare time?
CIX tech said in their presentation that they will start upstreaming EDK2 and Linux kernel in the first half of 2025. You need a translator to read this from their website.
Translated version:
As we all know, for a successful development kit, open source support is essential. Cix technology will actively embrace the community and contribute to open source. For the newly released Radxa Orion O6 development kit, Cix technology will promote the open source and upstream support of EDK2 firmware and Linux kernel in the first half of 2025.
In fact, this board can already run the upstream kernel and distro well, just like the x86 platform, boot and flash the system through a flash disk. Personally, I am more concerned about the performance of video codec and GPU, so I decided to stay in BSP/vendor kernel for a while.
