@nicole.faerber I definitely also support the idea to rather wait a few months if this gives us the ability to have the iMX8.
Not for computing power, but for energy efficiency. I really don’t care much if we have more than HD and more than 3 GB RAM. I mean it’s all nice and dandy, but energy efficiency trumps a lot of sugar coating.
On the kernel support, I would hope it is not too hard to do? I mean the name implies it is kind of similar to the iMX6.
I’m confident Purism will take the proper steps 
Also, a thought to those who fear that the iMX6 could be underpowered: I don’t know what I could compare it to.
Nicole, can you give a rough estimate how iMX6 and iMX8 compare to a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3?
But I also think that optimized native apps should have an advantage over Android apps, so a slightly weaker CPU is not the end of the world.