Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.io/@wolf480pl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wolf480pl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@cas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cas</span></a></span> I just assume they don't want to have to deal with a <a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114465885276391701" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">gazillion of undocumented SBCs</a> that may only get 1 person to once push code that gets accepted, but then <em>"orphaned"</em> and break over time as they may not be willing to build & test every new kernel before release just to enshure it ain't broken!</p><ul><li>Espechally since <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ARM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARM</span></a> doesn't have just a <code>bootcode.bin</code> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UEFI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UEFI</span></a> to boot from, but half a dozen different mechanisms ranging from fixed sector location and -sizes for the <code>initramfs</code> to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/uBOOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBOOT</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LinuxBoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxBoot</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Coreboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coreboot</span></a> and potentially even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenFirmware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenFirmware</span></a>-style <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/bootcode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bootcode</span></a>...<br></li></ul><p>It's absolute chaos and one of the reasons I didn't even try to build <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.space/@OS1337" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>OS1337</span></a></span> for the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Pi0W" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pi0W</span></a> as of today...</p>