I checked the current vanilla kernel device tree and found a file called bcm2836-rpi-2-b.dts ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2836-rpi-2-b.dts ). Does this mean this vanilla kernel can be compiled for RPi-2b? Even so, it is a problem because it uses the Cortex-A7 ...

I am looking for an ARM development board which supports mainline Linux kernel. I started out by looking at Raspberry Pi (3) and noticed that it requires the patched R-Pi kernel version to support Broadcom 2837 SoC. Are there any boards, including old ones, that are fully compatible with the mainlin...