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MIPS Tempts Hackers With Raspbery Pi-like Dev Board
From http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...like-dev-board
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If _we_ are going to leave 'Intel x86' mobos behind, I want a proper 'standard' board.
(From what I saw of ARM, the boards were all slightly different, i.e. not standardised.)
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I thought about going for one, but it's a MIPS32 board and I don't have sufficient time to revive the 32-bit MIPS port.
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I think the important distinction is "open". Raspberry Pi is not "open" (not fully, at least) because the "open sourcing" of the GPU was open sourcing of a wrapper around a binary blob. Nonsense.
As for ARM, yes, there is a lot of SoC differences between ARM implementations that make "standardization" difficult, but honestly there are quirks of various x86/x64 implementations as well. I have a BeagleBone Black that is a wonder little device, even though support for OpenBSD isn't complete. My concern is that ARM has gained *so much* market hold that I fear we're trading one tyrant (x86) for another. A little diversity is never a bad thing. Edit - Doh! Just saw Ibara's comment that this is MIPS32, not 64. Yeah, nice try, but I don't see this making a tremendous impact within the BSD community.
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