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RPI has mainline kernel support for all its components, pretty much every other ARM devices has at least a closed source GPU driver, meaning you are going to be
by throwaway2048 9y ago
RPI has mainline kernel support for all its components, pretty much every other ARM devices has at least a closed source GPU driver, meaning you are going to be stuck on some old kernel forever eventually.
- bsder 9y agoRPI3 was still "blob"-bed as of about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13396625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13396625 Have they finally succeeded in pulling all the blob out yet?
- throwaway2048 9y agothe blobs are firmware and booting related, they dont hinder the ability to actually use a new kernel.