Why are custom roms so much device specific while any linux distro works on any pc? - eviltoast
  • blayde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    It took a lot of work to get PC parts to become interoperable. There’s all kinds of special negotiations that happen at boot to discover the state of hardware. There are standard drivers for most peripherals

    Mobile devices aren’t expected to change hardware so everything is hard-coded into the ROM. No discovery protocols are supported. Standardized drivers make it hard to ship new features or squeeze every last bit of performance so no effort goes into making them