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> because it's available and can run without proprietary binary blobs Which isn't even necessarily true. The POWER architecture is just an ISA. It doesn't spec
by duskwuff 5y ago
> because it's available and can run without proprietary binary blobs
Which isn't even necessarily true. The POWER architecture is just an ISA. It doesn't specify anything about how the rest of the system works.
(The POWER Architecture Platform does exist, but, as far as I know, it's only used in IBM's POWER servers.)
Conversely, it's hardly as though POWER is the only architecture this is true of. Coincidentally, NXP also sells a line of ARM SoCs (the i.MX line) which can be used in a blob-free mode, and there are already several open hardware laptops built around those parts!