[LAU] APC devices for Audio

Simon Wise simonzwise at gmail.com
Wed Feb 26 21:27:19 UTC 2014


On 27/02/14 07:48, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> On 02/26/2014 09:12 PM, Simon Wise wrote:

>> 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.

but very importantly it contains all the libraries and sample code, the broadcom 
code with community additions, to make use of the hardware in a GNU/linux 
context... which I happen to be immersed in this week.

>
>> 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 :)

certainly, and the sooner the better.

>
> Bye,
>
> Jeremy
>
>> Simon
>
>
>
>
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