Recommeded community board with Mali rendering to framebuffer ?

I am a member of the JavaFX Embedded team, which I will loosely define as JavaFX using (hopefully) GPU accelerated rendering direct to framebuffer on a Linux distro.

We currently have rendering using 3 different GPU families, but unfortunately Mali is not one of them.

I have 3 different community boards with Mali-400 on them, and have yet to get the satisfaction of a simple GLESv2 app rendering without X11 in the way. Perhaps this is because I am a library guy (not a kernel guy), perhaps it is due to the emphasis on X11 in the distros, perhaps this is because I have not found the right magic incantation.

So I am looking for recommendations for community boards (easily available without NDA), and/or suggestions on what I am missing in setup on the boards I do have.

I have:

    Arndale Board-K

    Odroid-U3

    A20-OlinuXino-Micro

The A20 forums hint that I should be able to get the sunxi dirvers to install/work, but I keep running into kernel/driver mismatches after several iterations.

Thanks in advance.