[opless]

Board support packages very rarely get updated and usually target a very specific kernel version.

You move off that kernel version, no BSP, no boot. sad times.

This is one reason why you don't get android phones supported past the android release shipped.

You're completely at the mercy of the SoC provider. Promises of 'n' years support are quite often quietly dropped after 18 months, when they realise all the engineers have moved to working madly to get the latest SoC's BSP out of the door.

Rinse and repeat.

[KingLancelot]

This problem wouldn’t exist if linux had a stable ABI.

Hopefully Fuchsia’s stable ABI promises pan out and companies start releasing drivers for it.

[snvzz]

Haiku is already working on the board, although you need to build your own, as there's no public builds for it.

Haiku remarkably does have proper driver APIs and stable ABIs.

Linux is and will remain painful, on all platforms, until it is finally deprecated, and for a while longer after that.