[Liverpool] Linux on ARM

[Dan Lynch]

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.

Dan


On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jérôme Fuselier <jerome.fuselier at free.fr>wrote:

>  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> 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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