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by aray 3492 days ago
It looks like we're moving towards a solution (in a slow, jerky, shambling way) with replacing hardcoded boardfiles with device trees.

If RISC-V does this well out of the gate (like with IBM's old school Open Firmware) and has great shiny device tree support, I think we might end up like x86 -- where a single thumbdrive can boot almost any x86 machine under the sun.