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Destroy your boot (lemmy.world)
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[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

So to provide further context, PCs have tables that can be checked to see what hardware is located where. Phones don't have this, and if you try to query the wrong component or the right component at the wrong address, you can crash the whole device.

PCs were this way too, before PnP/PCI/ACPI tech showed up.

Loading Linux on a Pentium with a bunch of ISA cards was NOT a guaranteed win.