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>Some may point to the existence of the Raspberry Pi as a counter argument. "Here is a computer built by a small company that is designed for tinkerers," they m
by nimbius 6y ago
>Some may point to the existence of the Raspberry Pi as a counter argument. "Here is a computer built by a small company that is designed for tinkerers," they might argue
LOL. the Pi? its entire SOC is controlled by Microsoft ThreadX. if there were ever a better example of how the war on general purpose computing was won its the Pi. You only ever emulate or virtualize linux on it. the kernel is never aware of the threadx hypervisor and no open alternative exists. the officially supported OS developer just recently back-doored a repo and GPG key onto every one of them during an upgrade.
- ac42 6y agoCan you elaborate? AFAIK, the ARM on the PI is real silicon and controlled by Broadcom firmware via the VideoCore GPU. Where is the MSFT part?
- justin66 6y agoThe person you’ve responded to has confused a bootloader with... virtualization? There are some legitimate concerns about how open the RPi has made certain things, but you haven’t read a sane person’s critique of it above.
- ac42 6y agoInteresting, the VC firmware is ThreadX based, indeed[1]! The number of platforms this runs on is absolutely mind-blowing (from an engineering perspective). [1] https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv
- Cieplak 6y agoOh wow no kidding. Was not aware of that. This article [1] seems to be the primary source for that. Also kind of funny that the ThreadX wikipedia page [2] randomly links to Intel Management Engine. [1] https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/ https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-rasp... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX