[Liverpool] Linux on ARM

[Graeme Dyas]

Just to be clear I mean a boot loader that would allow you to flash the
device with new code form a data source like the boot-loader on Android dev
phones.

On 8 October 2010 11:27, Graeme Dyas <admin at zabouth.com> wrote:

> From what I can remember it's not that simple. You 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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> If you are interested in seeing how to install Linux on a ARM processor I
> would check out the http://beagleboard.org/ project.
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> 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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