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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.



If you are interested in seeing how to install Linux on a ARM processor I
would check out the http://beagleboard.org/ project.




On 7 October 2010 13:39, Sebastian <shop at open-t.co.uk> wrote:

> Just a bit of an open topic - more for my general knowledge, if not for
> anything else :-)
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Any comments welcome,
>
> Sebastian
>
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