The problem still is that building the hardware around it is much more complex due to the BIOS.
If the Pyra sells well and there is money to hire someone working on this fulltime, it might be possible.
Of course, ANYBODY could create that CPU board, so anyone could also kickstart it. Doesn't have to be me.
I much more like this response rather than the more elitism standpoint of "you'll either need to come and beg us for software, or be smart enough to compile it yourself" that might not be the exact standpoint being presented by others, but the end result surely comes off a lot like that. A simple user, and one that might want an x86 chipset, could bypass a lot of the hassle that comes with introducing new software title to the platform by just simply installing it. Ever so often I have seen "source code or GTFO" when someone who doesn't have the knowledge/skill to port asks if a specific title to be ported. Where most anyone could flash a windows image if one were available, and install what they needed when they needed it. And sometimes in the instance of that person could actually produce the source code of the application they wanted, they then had to rely on someone being interested enough in that title, or feeling charitable enough to bother with porting it.
One might see it as encouraging community interaction, but others might see it as a gate, I sometimes see the latter, not in a true authoritarian sense of the word of course, but definitely away from the openness that this device strives to achieve. "we don't want windows on our platform" also seems to be a message coming across from others. While older versions of windows being ran in an translated environment is currently the situation, it almost seems satisfactory that it runs this way to certain people. Something that requires going through native linux first to achieve, and the fact it also restricts a large portion of the latest windows software from being ran. Again, I'm not for sure that this is the intended message, but it sure seems that way from the outside.
The point can be argued and justified I'm sure, but I've just always gotten this vibe from this community, similar, but slightly more harsh than the stance on android. From a community that was founded in the mindset of getting devices to do things they weren't intended to do out of the box, it seems awfully strange point of view to have. And again, not yours (ED) specifically, you appear to be very open to absolutely anything can and should be ran, and sway always in the idea of as free as possible. It's the others that I'm referring to. The ones that will come into a thread like this and find it mandatory to respond as soon as possible about to how non interesting a specific device is, or just derail the conversion, rather than what I would think a normal person would do in a situation where something doesn't interest them and completely ignore the thread after the first couple lines of the first post. I know I don't go around in threads and exclaim how much I'm not interested in something, it would make for a rather grim forum if everyone did that I'd think. Luckily it's only these types of android devices that seem to get that treatment.
/end rant
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As to make this post not completely off topic, I like the K1, it seems like a great chipset. The device seems to go in the direction of using a mainstream chipset that will produce much better results than normal crap hardware JXD specifically has used in the past. The ergonomics seems similar to that of the shield. This will be the bridge gap device before a shield 2 comes out I feel. I would be warry about JXD as far as support is concerned, where the shield from nvidia has a lot of it's source code available to tinker with, JXD is known for maintaining it's open source bits in privacy. Not locking down their devices beyond a reasonable level, but not open to hackers and the like like the shield was. I once worked with an nvidia engineer that went out of their way to help get a version of linux running on the shield (until hardware design problems made that too much work to bother with) and I have simply asked for source code of their required to be distributed bits from JXD and got nothing but a brick wall. Just to compare the two levels of openness. It might not be that important to some, but it's worth noting.
From a consumer standpoint, I still like the GPD XD, and this seems to be aimed at the same market as the GPD Q9 which is in the same series of devices as the XD but in the larger 7 inch tablet form factor. I'm sure that the overlap of customers looking for a tablet gamepad will likely choose this over the Q9 after some reviews start coming in given that this isn't complete shit. And those not willing or tired of waiting for a shield 2.
