Still, the author’s point was that the Stream 7 is a highly accessible quad core x86 touch screen device that is ripe for some OpenBSD hacking right now. That said, I believe just a few months ago the armv7 port of OpenBSD finally gained a generic but working boot loader, so there is some progress being made. For example, booting with an Nvidia card under OpenBSD is not only not accelerated, it’s like having a CGA card from 1982. If you aren’t familiar with them, the OpenBSD folks are hardcore against any firmware blobs and will aggressively reject any hardware without fully open specifications. There has been little to no interest in the OpenBSD community for the Open Pandora and its successor, due to firmware blobs necessary for booting it (the same issue that hinders an OpenBSD port for the immensely popular Raspberry Pi, though that is changing with Broadcom slowly opening up the platform). I think what the article meant was, a handheld touch screen device that runs OpenBSD, not just another RISC portable.
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