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As a maintainer of one of these OSes that runs on the pi (though not the person that did the port): no, it's a pretty big issue.
by ori_b 2y ago
As a maintainer of one of these OSes that runs on the pi (though not the person that did the port): no, it's a pretty big issue.
- tssva 2y agoWhat issues did the proprietary blobs cause versus porting to other arm based SBCs without them?
- ori_b 2y agoIt's not so much the proprietary blobs, as the complete lack of documentation and debuggability for the peripherals. The PC platform, and several other SBCs, are either well documented, or at least give you the possibility of obtaining hardware with documentation. That, combined with general flakiness (eg, power delivery issues for peripherals on older pis), and you end up with users blaming the software for hardware issues. It's just not very fun to develop an OS for.