donluca

A terrible suspicion came to me right as I was writing the previous post, so I did a quick cat /proc/cpuinfo... and it has an H3 CPU.

Everything that was written on the box and on the eBay auction was completely off.
 
It looks like this one: 
 
 
Apologies for wasting your time, I'll go and try out another image for the correct CPU!

A terrible suspicion came to me right as I was writing the previous post, so I did a quick cat /proc/cpuinfo... and it has an H3 CPU.

Everything that was written on the box and on the eBay auction was completely off.
 
It looks like this one: 
 
 
Apologies for wasting your time, I'll go and try out another image for the correct CPU!

Sorry for the late reply, it looks like I'm allowed only one post per day due to bot/spam prevention measures.

The board is marked as MXQ-HX-V2.0 and has a sv6256p wifi chip which means no wi-fi for me (not that I really needed it, but still...)
 
Here's a picture:
 

 
I can clearly see the serial port pads marked between the USB and SPDIF connector so I should be fine if anything goes pear shaped.

Still, I'd feel more comfortable knowing if there's been any test done on this board.
I don't need video output or anything else as this is going to be the DNS server of my local network (Pi-Hole, DNSCrypt and all that jazz), but I'd really appreciate not having to sacrifice an SD to hold the rootfs and, more importantly, the ethernet MUST work.

@donluca

yes this board is NOW supported and you will have great satisfaction in using it for your purposes.

And yes ethernet will work out of the box ( and if I am not wrong, wifi too but about this let's wait @jock suggestion )