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It really should be required for manufacturers to publish full details about how the hardware works so that alternative software can be developed. I'd wholly su
by jonkoops 1mo ago
It really should be required for manufacturers to publish full details about how the hardware works so that alternative software can be developed. I'd wholly support that.
- celiacFun 1mo agoThey do though. There are hundreds of pages of specs you can read about it if you want to.
- apatheticonion 27d agoNot true. Apple, for instance, does not provide low level device documentation sufficient for creating open source drivers - for instance - publishing documentation on the Apple GPU and coprocessor would have reduced the development effort of the Asahi GPU driver by 90%. If Apple was compelled to release low level documentation for their Apple Silicon hardware (audio, usb, gpu, power management, etc) - Linux would have been running on Apple hardware long ago.