Re:The Life of Pi: Ten Years of Raspberry Pi
by IntelMiner on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:16PM
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The Pi is a lot less "weird" than a lot of the hardware the mainline kernel does support
Wanna run Linux on a Sega Dreamcast? (game console from 1998)
Well there's a dreamcast_defconfig in the mainline kernel still
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/sh/config...
How about a Nintendo 64 from 1996? Someone sat down and hacked that out too!
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20201225190503.1235321881...
Or for more recent examples. How about some ancient routers?
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....
These are bits of hardware added by hobbyists or small teams. The Raspberry Pi foundation is a company with paid developers supporting a set of devices you could count on one hand (or two if you include every variant separately)
The Pi isn't mainstream hardware, is it?
Their total picture includes OS distribution and support that eclipses all the other mini-SBC-type ARM machines.
Ubuntu has a mainstream distribution supported by the Pi Imager, and it should support sound, if you have the right boot parameters set?
(edit: not sure this supports as far back as the 2B; I might have to test that)