[LAU] APC devices for Audio

[Carlos sanchiavedraz]

2014-02-26 22:27 GMT+01:00 Simon Wise <simonzwise at gmail.com>:
> On 27/02/14 07:48, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
>>
>> On 02/26/2014 09:12 PM, Simon Wise wrote:
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>
>>> 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.
>

Please let me/us know about you're progress.

>
>>
>>> 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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