On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 01:32 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:25 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > sooo... although the situation *right now* is that nobody in the > > commercial world is the slightest bit interested in LSB because they > > all do "custom builds" of complete software stacks, it could be said > > that *if* the free software community just dropped ready-to-go LSB > > standards in front of their noses, they'd quite likely use it. > > The reason we're discussing this is because a new architecture isn't > going to be supported in standards like LSB overnight. It might take > some time, and by that time, things may have changed with respect to the > adoption of ARM systems. But if we don't think ahead, we're forced to be > reactionary and try to do this (probably less effectively) later on. > > Nobody will be forced to adopt LSB, but general purpose distributions > can benefit from having compatibility at the software level. Is this an > issue for deeply embedded platforms? Not so much. Is it bad that Android > rebuilds the Universe? It's their decision to make. I think we need to > distinguish between traditional embedded uses of ARM parts, which will > continue, and those of larger parts running general a purpose OS. I > don't expect to see Fedora running on my cellphone, but I do have it > running on a netbook quite nicely - the latter needs LSB more. > > I'll leave the rest of the rhetoric alone :) Further discussion will be copied to arm@ and not necessarily here (unless someone includes the devel@ on CC) so please do sign up there if you are interested: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm I just forwarded some more notes on LSB additions for ARM. A great deal of other standardization work is ongoing at the moment, and I'll forward some more stuff to ARM list in due course. Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
