[Liverpool] Linux on ARM

[Sebastian]

On 10/08/2010 11:41 AM, Jérôme Fuselier 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/

I've seen some articles about Pandora a while ago. I guess Pandora is 
technically a lot closer to what I'm thinking. I was thinking, however, 
about something with a larger screen - a bit more useful as a general 
computing device. I do hope, though, that their idea takes off big, and 
the world of ARM bootloaders becomes a bit more standardised - to allow 
easier change of operating systems on ARM 
devices/handhelds/pads/smartbooks etc.

Sebastian

>
> 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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