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by egsmi 2023 days ago
We've basically got one foot though that door already.

> We'll have some niche manufacturer building something more open for the small segment of enthusiasts.

I would argue that's exactly what Raspberry Pi and Arduino is.

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The raspberry pi requires a very proprietary and custom boot process. Nothing can start until you first load the GPU driver blob on to the SoC.

This is why you need rpi specific distro builds.