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I'm talking about their desktop OS, Windows.

• vetinari 9y ago
  Desktop OS has UEFI or BIOS available for boot and platform services, together with enumerable busses, so you can find out what hardware you have available. Such things are luxury in the mobile world, you need to know what hardware you have in advance, otherwise wrong poke and something will hang.
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  • problems 9y ago
    It's entirely possible to present a solid ABI that would allow vendor specific boot and hardware access. I can see no reason those can't be abstracted out.
    • vetinari 9y ago
      Because it's the vendors, who are not interested in the first place. See also stock Linux, device tree, it's problems.