[LAU] APC devices for Audio

[Jeremy Jongepier]

On 02/26/2014 09:12 PM, Simon Wise wrote:
> ARM is a very variable target ... debian has two ARM versions which will
> suit some devices ....

armel and armhf should cover most devices. Haven't come across an ARM
based device (except phones) yet that doesn't run Debian.

 and are a reasonable starting point for trying to
> get a new device working. There is a raspberry specific repo based on
> one of them, where a huge amount of work has been put in to make it run
> well on a raspberry ... that work depended in part on support from
> broadcom and is possibly the biggest thing that makes the raspberries an
> interesting platform for me.
> 

Afaik Raspbian was and still is a community project unrelated to the The
Foundation itself. Rasbian was needed because Debian armel couldn't
benefit from the floating point hardware of the RPi.

> Getting GNU/linux running on a specific ARM device is serious work, the
> manufacturers have often put work into running Android/linux but that is
> a very different platform. Ubuntu is working on supporting some phones
> with its GNU/linux, which could be nice to have.
> 

True but once folks got Linux running on specific ARM devices and
documented the installation steps this can make things a lot easier :)

Bye,

Jeremy

> Simon


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