I'm guessing this is why, as others have already mentioned, there seems to be an increase in use of x86 processors like the N100. You don't need to worry about stuff like specific vendor kernels.
I'm guessing this is why, as others have already mentioned, there seems to be an increase in use of x86 processors like the N100. You don't need to worry about stuff like specific vendor kernels.
yeah, x86 BIOS/UEFI plus VESA provides for a not-great but decently usable foundation. Easy enough to hand-code a hello world in assembly - good luck trying to do that one on any ARM system.
> any ARM system
If you are talking bare metal rather than Linux support, many M-core MCUs are easy, and some of these (e. g. STM32H7) actually have usable 1995-level desktop performance sans MMU, ergo enough for many things that aren't web browsing. It's A-cores that's closed, because vendors have zero incentives to open them up and because the whole thing is a heap of Synopsys modules ducktaped together - and Synopsys has an less incentive to open up. And then of course, there are GPUs, that's not well supported even on x86. Video out - yes, you get it with UEFI GOP, but usually no multihead. You also get it on many ARM SoCs - the video output generator is sometimes documented, it's accelerator/compute that's universally closed.