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Thanks to @geerlingguy for addressing the elephant in the room.

@RaspberryPi dominates the #SBC market because they know how to write #documentation and build #drivers that get accepted into #mainline #Linux kernel.

  • The best specs and hardware is useless if it needs intimate knowledge on how to roll one's own kernel. And oftentimes one doesn't even get proper drivers and reproduceable build instructions but just some "vomited" out bootable images to dd onto a microSD!

That's why my #BananPi Zero M2 is still unused to this day: It's way too inconvenient and whilst I do want to support it someday, it's just not a good start when the 1st #RasperryPi's documentation to this day is still the bare minimum and vendors can't be assed to do that.

  • The only reason #amd64-based #SBC|s don't have the same issues as #arm64 is because #BIOS & #UEFI-boot alongside the way #hardware is initialized make it trivial to make it "go brrrr..."
#amd64#arm64#Bios