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What do you think of the notoriously closed/proprietary attitude of Broadcom and the near unavailability of documentation?

I think the standard PC is a far better platform for OS development --- decades of backwards compatibility mean documentation is plentiful, and so is sample code.

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Then use a Beaglebone? TI documents everything.

And x86-64 really is a really complex platform to develop from scratch for. Have you seen the C ABI specification for it?

When I did OS development we used MacBooks for x86 development. If a "standard PC" exists the Apple fell far from it, but they have to keep their OS running more than they need to save a buck on the next 10000 units.

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