• Mara@pawb.social
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        1 year ago

        This is true with ARM in general. There's no "standard Linux" to boot because every board needs its own device tree and set of core kernel modules for detecting important things like local storage. It's fairly intractable due to how different the hardware is.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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          1 year ago

          I've heard this argumane before but that doesn't change the fact that some socs work out of the box and require no proprietary software or custom configs

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            1 year ago

            Yeah for the majority of standardized hardware solutions sure. But the Pi is an one-off, as well as all the other single board computers. IANALOSD.

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      1 year ago

      Wow, I was sure Raspberry Pi were pretty good about mainline support, especially since multiple distros support the platform.
      Software support is still very good compared to pretty much every other arm board.