Oh, I almost forgot to mention this blog post from Free Electrons:
http://free-electrons.com/blog/free-electrons-chip-nextthing/
"Free Electrons is also very excited to be working with NextThing Co on this
project! Thanks to this, over the next months, we will have a very
substantial amount of time dedicated to this project, and we will regularly
push code to support the missing hardware Allwinner SoC hardware blocks in
the mainline Linux kernel and to support the C.H.I.P. board."
They also describe some more details about the board:
"
* Availability planned for 2016 for the general public. A selection of 1000
kernel hackers who backed on Kickstarter will have the platform earlier.
* Very small platform: 40mm x 60mm, making is even smaller than a Raspberry
Pi or BeagleBone.
* Allwinner R8 processor, clocked at 1 Ghz, and offering OpenGL/OpenVG
acceleration through an ARM Mali GPU
* 512 MB of RAM
* 4GB of on-board NAND flash storage
* WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 to connect the system to the outside world
* One USB host port
* Powered through a micro USB connector which also supports USB OTG (either
USB host or device).
* Jack connector for composite video out, headphones and microphone input.
* Many headers to connect external devices (SPI, I2C, UART + 8 GPIOs)
* Integrated circuit for charging a LiPo battery and being powered by it
* Additional HDMI or VGA add-on boards will be needed to connect to displays
with the corresponding connectivity.
"
