[Liverpool] Linux on ARM

[Sebastian]

On 10/08/2010 02:00 PM, Ste wrote:
> On 08/10/2010 13:56, Sebastian wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Graeme. In a sense that is an answer to my question. I have
>> installed Linux on some NSLUs a while ago (which are ARM based). I
>> know it can be done in many cases. I was just wondering if there will
>> ever be some sort of universal method which will work on all of them.
>> I guess you have already answered that - the short answer is no.
>>
>> Well, one can keep on hoping. I guess until that will be that case, I
>> don't see ARM breaking out of the 'device' type market, into the
>> general computing market - where x86 is. Not that the 'device' market
>> is not lucrative, or large enough, or fairly useful to all of us as it
>> is now :-)
>
> I think a best-case scenario would be if every arm-based
> tablet/phone/device could boot into a standard 'recovery' mode (by
> holding down a 2nd button when powering the device on, for example) - in
> which, you'd be able to flash the on-board storage with either an image
> on an attached USB stick, or over a USB connection to a host running
> something similar to android's 'adb' thingy which you get with the
> development kit. These images would all be nice and standard, like how
> bootable CDs are made with .iso files now.
>
> Hands up if you can see this ever happening!

I like the idea. Sounds nice and standard - and usable in the context 
(no optical drive etc.).

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