I'm no expert on this but you asked about devices already running a full Linux OS on ARM. The N900 does this with the Snapdragon processor. Maemo is a modified but thankfully not dumbed down version of Debian. We all know the problems of it's lack of direction and uncertainty with the move to Meego. I'm not sure if it would make a good place to base future projects until it settles down but it is an example of the ARM/Linux touch screen marriage working well.<br>
<br>Dan<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jérôme Fuselier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerome.fuselier@free.fr">jerome.fuselier@free.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Very close to the beaglboard but with real controls there's the
Pandora handheld that runs Linux on a ARM processor.<br>
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<a href="http://openpandora.org/" target="_blank">http://openpandora.org/</a><br>
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But it's still hard to get one :(<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 10/08/2010 11:27 AM, Graeme Dyas wrote:
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can't just install the OS. You need some kind of boot-loader
installed or you need a JTAG programmer. It would
be possible to develop a universal boot loader but I don't see
this happening any time soon. It would need some kind of standard
bootloader/bios on all ARM Devices.
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<div>If you are interested in seeing how to install Linux on a
ARM processor I would check out the <a href="http://beagleboard.org/" target="_blank">http://beagleboard.org/</a> project.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 7 October 2010 13:39, Sebastian
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shop@open-t.co.uk" target="_blank">shop@open-t.co.uk</a>></span>
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Just a bit of an open topic - more for my general
knowledge, if not for anything else :-)<br>
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I was thinking about the fact that the market is being
taken over by these iPad clones (ish) - and all of the
ones I've seen seem to be based on some flavour of ARM
processor. I was wondering if this would mean a new
impetus for the various ARM Linux distributions out
there. I'm aware that there has been continuous effort
in this direction over the years - but the most
significant ARM devices available for (sort of) mass
consumption have been some hackable routers, and the
SheevaPlug device. I'm not really aware about other
stuff with ARM inside that you could just buy and
install Linux on.<br>
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Would people here think that we will see new effort
directed towards hacking all these cheap(ish) ARM
tablets and installing some proper Linux on them. I
don't know much about hardware particularities for these
devices - specially things like BIOS (or whatever ARM
world tends to call it) - which might make it difficult
or impossible to hack around on these. Or if this might
mean that a generic ARM distribution couldn't pull it
off - as each device might have esoteric ways of beeing
rooted/jail-broken - which would fragment too much the
development effort.<br>
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In case I wasn't clear enough in my ramble :-) : are we
going to see a situation, like in the x86 world, where
one can just download an ARM distribution, pick up any
ARM tablet, install it and get on with things - kind of
some sort of universal compatibility? Again, I don't
enough about hardware aspects of the ARM world - so I
would like to know if I'm imagining the impossible.<br>
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Any comments welcome,<br>
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Sebastian<br>
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