Re:Pokemon Go, Security, and Obsolescence
by pjmlp on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:58AM
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It is like the old days of home computers.
We had Z80, 6509, 68000 and so so, but everything else that was plugged into their pins was different.
So it doesn't matter if the Assembly is the same, the kernel also needs to talk to the hardware.
Also ARM just resells the base designs, each company usually adds they own set of Assembly instructions or fine tunes the designs in some other way.
The IBM PC clones were the only ones that had some kind of standardization going on, and even that seems to be gone now, with OEMs going to the same kind of hardware designs we used to have (everything bolted on the board).
We had Z80, 6509, 68000 and so so, but everything else that was plugged into their pins was different.
So it doesn't matter if the Assembly is the same, the kernel also needs to talk to the hardware.
Also ARM just resells the base designs, each company usually adds they own set of Assembly instructions or fine tunes the designs in some other way.
The IBM PC clones were the only ones that had some kind of standardization going on, and even that seems to be gone now, with OEMs going to the same kind of hardware designs we used to have (everything bolted on the board).