02-07-2019, 05:45 AM
(02-06-2019, 03:53 PM)whm1974 Wrote:(02-06-2019, 03:24 PM)soupbowl Wrote: Stabbing in the dark, but I think it's because ARM is mostly used in embedded systems, and has only recently began being adopted into other purposes. It weren't too long ago that PowerPC was a growing contender in the server market (and briefly Apple devices), then disappeared.
Will the PineTab adopt the same SD-Card preferential boot? Personally prefer this approach, makes distrohopping really easy.
Maybe they can use LibreBoot and Coreboot?
https://www.coreboot.org/
https://libreboot.org/
Either one would make things way easier for Linux and BSD distros to support ARM devices and PCs.
Will check out Libreboot in some more detail soon. I'm still boggled by the idea of no-BIOS, so I'll need to do some investigating.
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