27 Sep
2021
27 Sep
'21
9:36 a.m.
On Sep 27, 2021, at 12:06 PM, Kenneth Gober via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 11:18 AM Alan Perry via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
True, and that's also a reason to avoid that hardware. I remember when the SoC used
on the Raspberry Pi was secret. That prompted me to go BeagleBone instead, since TI
published a full manual, over 5000 pages. It seems Broadcom has cleaned up their act a
bit since that time, from what I've heard.
paul
On Sep
27, 2021, at 07:07, Joshua Rice via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Obviously, there's more hardware platforms that support Linux (like the
RPi
and other ARM boards)
Doesn?t this have the relationship between the OS
and the hardware
platform backwards?
...
But more often than not, OS support is a big part of selling hardware. You
seriously reduce your
potential sales if your hardware doesn't run a popular operating system,
and to ensure that your
operating system(s) of choice will run on your hardware, you pay your own
developers to do the
port(s).
...
The situation is similar with add-on hardware that requires device
drivers. If the documentation
needed to write a device driver is unavailable, and the only available
drivers came from the
hardware maker, then it is definitely a case of the hardware maker
supporting the OS.