Mastodawn

Sep 11, 2025

@krutonium @landley @geerlingguy IDK but I also didn't knew that #32bit #ARM (i.e. #AMRv5r11 as used by the #RaspberryPi #Pi0 / #Pi0W) is out of patent protection...

I started @OS1337 as an effort to build a "legacy-friendy" minimalist #toybox + #musl / #linux distro as a basis for #firmware (i.e. for a #minimalist #embedded system like an applianced "#SSH-#Terminal" in critical IT)…

Killing non-#64bit support in Linux would be a death sentence for many #EmbeddedSystems.

And I don't think they can all be migrated to i.e. #NetBSD, as it already took huge efforts to get them away from #MSDOS & #WindowsEmbedded…

Rob Landley (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Arnd Bergman is lobbying to remove all 32 bit support. (He works for arm and 32-bit arm is going out of patent.) If he succeeds, or they make it so you can't build a usable Linux kernel without rust, I will be doing another "stay on the last GPLv2 release" thing and either retire or start caring about BSD or something. (Seriously, the Aldi's down the street is hiring. My commute would be like 2000 steps and I'd get cardio and maybe even dental.)

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