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Yeah lack of peripheral drivers upstream for all the little things on the board, plus (AIUI) ARM doesn't have the same self-describing hardware discovery mechan
by girvo 6mo ago
Yeah lack of peripheral drivers upstream for all the little things on the board, plus (AIUI) ARM doesn't have the same self-describing hardware discovery mechanisms that x86 computers have. Basically, standardisation. They're closer to MCUs in that way, is how I found it (though my knowledge is way out of date now, been years since I was doing embedded)
- apatheticonion 6mo agoI've just been doing some reading. The driver situation in Linux is a bit dire. On the one hand there is no stable driver ABI because that would restrict the ability for Linux to optimize. On the other hand vendors (like Orange Pi, Samsung, Qualcomm, etc etc) end up maintaining long running and often outdated custom forks of Linux in an effort to hide their driver sources. Seems..... broken