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Well, the situation with Actions Semi will be the same as with Allwinner now. If there's some help from the manufacturer (providing specs, documentation, source code) and if a community arises then the software situation will improve automagically for all boards sharing the same SoC. This is the reason why Orange Pi and the Mini had excellent software support from the very beginning (since everything already existed due to Cubieboards, the linux-sunxi community and LeMaker -- they ported the GPIO stuff from the Raspberry Pi) and this is the very same reason why the software situation with the H3 based boards sucks.
LeMaker tries to sell 1 SoM and 1 SBC based on Actions Semi's SoCs: http://www.lemaker.org
And they claim everything has changed regarding Actions Semi and their relationship to the open source community:
http://www.lemaker.org/forum.php ... 81505&fromuid=33332
http://www.lemaker.org/forum.php ... 81524&fromuid=33332
If this is true, if the Lemon Pi gets sold and isn't just a piece of buggy silicone you can be assured that it will work sometimes in the future. Running Android since you're interested in GPU stuff (Imagination/PowerVR wasn't interested in the Linux community at all in the past and at the moment all you can expect is some HW acceleration in VLC for PowerVR GPUs running in Linux).
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