[egsmi]

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.

[SulfurHexaFluri]

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.