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>adds A64 support

A64 as in the chip that sits on the Pine64? I happen to have a Pine64 model PA642GB (aka PINE A64+ 2GB), which I bought after reading a comment on HN. After I received it I learned that the Linux support was actually terrible so I put it aside and haven't touched it since. Perhaps the situation is better now then?

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Go grab Armbian for your Pine64, its the least worst thing you can put on it. The Pine64 itself is a terrible board, its limited to 1 USB port, the light on it doesn't tell the user whether the OS actually booted, and the microUSB connector allows people to use crap cables that don't provide enough power for it to boot, but provide enough power for the stupid LED to come on.

You could likely build a working image running kernel 4.10, Armbian has a build system for that or you can just use qemu-debootstrap.

https://www.armbian.com/pine64/

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