[Liverpool] Linux on ARM

[Jérôme Fuselier]

  Very close to the beaglboard but with real controls there's the 
Pandora handheld that runs Linux on a ARM processor.

http://openpandora.org/

But it's still hard to get one :(


On 10/08/2010 11:27 AM, Graeme Dyas 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.
>
>
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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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