On 02/26/2014 09:12 PM, Simon Wise wrote: > ARM is a very variable target ... debian has two ARM versions which will > suit some devices .... armel and armhf should cover most devices. Haven't come across an ARM based device (except phones) yet that doesn't run Debian. and are a reasonable starting point for trying to > get a new device working. There is a raspberry specific repo based on > one of them, where a huge amount of work has been put in to make it run > well on a raspberry ... that work depended in part on support from > broadcom and is possibly the biggest thing that makes the raspberries an > interesting platform for me. > Afaik Raspbian was and still is a community project unrelated to the The Foundation itself. Rasbian was needed because Debian armel couldn't benefit from the floating point hardware of the RPi. > Getting GNU/linux running on a specific ARM device is serious work, the > manufacturers have often put work into running Android/linux but that is > a very different platform. Ubuntu is working on supporting some phones > with its GNU/linux, which could be nice to have. > True but once folks got Linux running on specific ARM devices and documented the installation steps this can make things a lot easier :) Bye, Jeremy > Simon
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