As I recall it was mostly the closed nature of the processor itself. It requires an NDA from Broadcom or to reverse engineer it. Sonpretty much when device makers get out of this neanderthal mindset ofcwe cant share our hardware reference docs everyone will get along better.
-- Jason Barbier | E: jab...@serversave.us GPG Key-ID: B5F75B47(http://kusuriya.devio.us/pubkey.asc) On Fri, Apr 29, 2016, at 05:04 AM, Alan Corey wrote: > I thought it was the bootloader, but I see there's u-boot (and QEMU) > for the Pi now. > http://elinux.org/RPi_U-Boot > > I don't know, I just wish everybody could get along. I've had a Pi > model B for 3 years, I've got a new Pi 3B on its way. 64-bit and quad > core for $35? Even if I have to live with Linux. Yes, I know there's > FreeBSD and NetBSD for it. > -- > Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX >