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I can imagine that this may be harder than it seems. - Most modern consumer-grade chips and SoCs have proprietary specs and closed-sourced drivers. It can be d
by Hackbraten 3y ago
I can imagine that this may be harder than it seems.
- Most modern consumer-grade chips and SoCs have proprietary specs and closed-sourced drivers. It can be difficult to obtain drivers suitable for mainlining into Linux.
- The automotive industry seems a good place to source parts with open specs. But for reasons I don’t understand, they seem to cling to absurdly old process sizes.
- Higher-specced chipsets would potentially eat into profit margins even more, even though ongoing app/drivers/OS development is already expensive enough.
Mostly speculation on my end but I think there are reasons for choosing lower-end specs somewhere in that zone.
- fsflover 3y agoThey have an article explaining some of the actual reasons: https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/ https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/