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[alexenv]

That cutout appears to be for the PoE step down transformer....

[alexenv]

Unpopulated bits on the left are for Power over Ethernet.

This device really makes little sense over a Pi 5 with all the stuff that's currently...

[alexenv]

It has the pads for one but it's not soldered. But hey, at least they've saved $0.000-something on that ...

[alexenv]

I'm not the person you were originally replying to.

That X4 has the same price as a Pi 5 for all RAM variants. 8GB costs $80.
If you...

[alexenv]

Here you go: Radxa X4

$60 for 4 GB (same as equivalent Pi 5), much better I/O, performance, software support. Variants up to 16 GB with...

[alexenv]

Only real advantage of Arm is power efficiency at this point. If they lose that, good luck in this market. x86 is still miles ahead in software support,...

[alexenv]

The firmware can pass a device tree just like it does ACPI, but vendors could care less. Granted, it's a bit early for that, as mainline support is far...

[alexenv]

You could run mainline for a NAS though. Mainline only lacks some video stuff, but most functionality is there already. Recently it got HDMI display support...

[alexenv]

That wouldn't make sense. The RP1 chipset provides most of the peripherals, like USB, Ethernet, eMMC controller and more.

And there's better...

[alexenv]

Okay, but by this logic the entire hardware is proprietary software. The hardware design was once software running on a FPGA, now it's converted to hardware...