Unreal. Kept scrolling and the vulnerabilities kept coming.
Most annoying thing is that there isn’t even a real alternative. If I understand it right then AMD chips have pretty much the same thing?
Most annoying thing is that there isn’t even a real alternative. If I understand it right then AMD chips have pretty much the same thing?
I am really looking forward for either ARM to displace x64 or even better RISC-V. With ARM you have many more vendors so more chance for options, and RISC-V is the ultimate in openness.
i.MX8 will soon be released in quantity to the public and it is claimed by people who experimented with testing samples of it that it is similarly open as the i.MX6 in this sense.
As someone who has spent ~four years working on software for a single M4F, that reads like "it's a datacenter on a chip", more or less. It's ... big.
It also has dual-gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, USB 2.0, and enough other low/medium-speed serial interfaces to make you go dizzy. :)
I wonder what the pricing will be.
[1]: https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers...
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disab...
ARM could be a affordable alternative to x86 if that works for you.
Even the open source friendly Raspberry Pi relies on proprietary blobs and proprietary firmware, with vast parts of the documentation only being available to system integrators (meaning: not you) under an NDA.
Theirs is a Broadcom chip, but my understanding is that the scenario is pretty much the same for other ARM vendors. If the chip is anything more complicated than your average 8-bit micro-controller, expect it to be running some kind of "system" which is, of course, closed source.
I may be wrong, but my impression is that a lot of the other ARM boards out there have the ARM chip as the main CPU, and without a management chip watching it. In any case, a board like that, or a Pi with a reverse-engineered firmware blob (currently in development) would be better than the Raspberry Pi as it is now.
Broadcom (producer of the chips used on the RPi) and open source friendly? A sense an oxymoron.