26 Feb
2014
26 Feb
'14
9:48 p.m.
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