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when even the very closed source pi wins, it shows the whole ecosystem is doomed. open source and open hardware lost.

• ahepp 2y ago
  Open source software seems to be winning? I mean, the whole point is that people want SBCs running Linux. I think it's probably fair to say that open source hardware is not winning. I'm not sure I'd say it's "losing", the BeagleBoard exists and seems to do alright for itself if that's what you want.
• sqeaky 2y ago
  When you say "closed source pi", are you referring to the hardware or the software that ships with? My experience with the Raspberry Pi is that it's been a very open platform and that there's tons of options for me and that licensing has never been a problem but also never tried to take a CPU off and Transplant it to a new board or something.
  • pjmlp 2y ago
    The graphics stack and firmware aren't open.
• Vt71fcAqt7 2y ago
  Pretty sure the issue is that the RK3588 drivers are not upstreamed into Linux/U-Boot etc. This is the issue with most ARM CPUs in this area like the Broadcom ones RPi is using. Which is why they have Raspberry Pi OS to ship you the drivers. The first good ARM CPU to actually get mainlined will probably see more sales. RK3588 upstreaming project: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2024/02/21/almost-a-fully-open-source-boot-chain-for-rockchips-rk3588/ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2024/02/21/almo... Risc-V JH7110[0] upsteam status: https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan [0] used in https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards
• asddubs 2y ago
  hardware is closed source but in software the pi does open source better. they develop and mainline kernel drivers for their hardware