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Santosh83 ◴[] No.42637177[source]
Read somewhere that it is relatively easy to adapt NetBSD's drivers into a custom kernel... maybe Serenity folks can go that way? Device drivers are huge obstacle for any fledgling OS.
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mysterydip ◴[] No.42637487[source]
> Device drivers are a huge obstacle for any fledgling OS.

I've wondered if new/hobby OSes would fare better by starting out targeting a popular single board computer like a raspberry pi? A mostly fixed set of hardware to make/get drivers for and test your system on.

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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[] No.42637523[source]
I've also argued in favor of that; I don't actually like Pis personally, but they're a super common, cheap enough, easy to acquire system and that's huge.
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FuriouslyAdrift ◴[] No.42637995[source]
Raspberry Pi's are highly proprietary for hardware blobs...
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jazzyjackson ◴[] No.42638095{3}[source]
Well unless they want to target PowerPC and make interested parties buy a Raptor Talos workstation what else is open enough for you? (Actually I would support this) Are there RISCV systems that are blobless?
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1. cmiller1 ◴[] No.42640428{4}[source]
Hey, if they target PowerPC I could run it on my eMac!