Reply to post: Re: Well currently the problem with ARM is not the CPU

Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo

Richard 12 Silver badge

Re: Well currently the problem with ARM is not the CPU

This, a hundred times this.

Right now, every SoC needs a customised bootloader and BSP, which means a huge amount of work before you can even start up a kernel and do your work.

And worse, it means there's no standard way for an application to detect which features a given machine has!

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