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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You mean Libre ARM or Libre-friendly ARM?

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I was thinking RISCV. There's no thing such as libre ARM. Unless he was talking about Libre-friendly which could mean a proprietary SOC company submitting driver code to the kernel.