Armbian vs other distros with support for the SoC?

[l3nticular]

There are other projects that use this SoC such as Orange Pi 4.

Could you give a summary of what special drivers/kernel mods/etc. are unique to Helm hardware vs other SBCs with the same SoC?

Could we theoretically load Debian or another distro that supports the right SoC or is there custom work included in the Armbian images provided?

Was any other SBC as reference or even an SoC vendor reference design used when designing the Helm?

[mongobit]

There is apperently a project to combine armbian with Kali linux. Could be the helm box could be used as a bastardised wifi pineapple.

[l3nticular]

I think at the very minimum we need a list of what custom kernel modules etc. are compiled into the working armbian kernel that aren’t in the public kernels.