Actually, there has been a trend towards standardising the device tree, and I can run ARM5 binaries on an ARMv7 without hassles.
The jump to ARM64 does have some constraints, but I haven’t come across anything significant yet (at least on Linux). And you _will_ have ARM laptops (in volume) very soon — and I’m not talking about Chromebooks. R. > On 5 Feb 2018, at 09:22, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > About diversity: > > We're not at the size where we would move industry. > This cost of supporting ARM is higher than it needs to, because every > new ARM platform and every new SoC using a new ARM platform does > everything differently, there are no stable standards or > backwards-compatibility. > > I think there are mips laptops nowadays. Knowing nothing about it yet > I'd welcome engagement with this over any rpi efforts. At least it > would improve diversity more than if somebody came and supported the > future rpi 95. >
