I upvoted you in spite of your tone, because your statements are not undue.
The AllWinner stuff is concerning because they weren't exactly transparent about things.
However, the Octavo stuff looks like your bog-standard chips from BeagleBone/TI just all smashed onto the same substrate. You could decap the module and see if that's true.
I don't know if the threading makes it less than obvious, but I was simply answering this question:
>OT, sort of, but a while back I saw one of these... "Pi-like" boards that had two Ethernet ports. It also had significantly more horsepower.
I'm wondering what might be recommended choices at this point for someone looking for an inexpensive, wired MITM / Firewall platform.
There are a lot of very interesting, very cheap boards!
The AllWinner stuff is concerning because they weren't exactly transparent about things.
However, the Octavo stuff looks like your bog-standard chips from BeagleBone/TI just all smashed onto the same substrate. You could decap the module and see if that's true.