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Originally Posted by jhowell
That is true today. But I wonder whether it will be true going forward.
The PW2 is a 6th generation kindle and the 9th generation is coming out next week. Eventually they may stop releasing updates as they already have for all of the older kindle models.
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It appears from the outside, that they have consolidated all i.MX6 device support into a single build system.
So the only thing that makes supporting six (seven) devices difficult is the logistics of distribution.
It was a lot different in prior devices, when nearly every device used a different SoC.
In different development departments, using different build systems and different people.
True, this most recent one is dual core instead of single core, but the system is already written to run on one or more cores. And the SoC line is designed to be drop-in, interchangeable at the board layout level.
(If one can apply the term "drop-in" to a BGA mounted device.
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So I don't really expect that this new one will require any special support.