> Every time a new board came out, the protocol was to copy the code for the most similar board and start making modifications I only saw that happen at one pl

> Every time a new board came out, the protocol was to copy the code for the most similar board and start making modifications I only saw that happen at one place. It was a bit of a shitshow. Big corps don't do that, they have a clear internal division between various levels of hardware-independent and hardware-specific components, down to workarounds for specific bugs in specific releases.