2014-02-26 22:27 GMT+01:00 Simon Wise <simonzwise@xxxxxxxxx>: > On 27/02/14 07:48, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: >> >> On 02/26/2014 09:12 PM, Simon Wise wrote: > > >>> 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. > > > but very importantly it contains all the libraries and sample code, the > broadcom code with community additions, to make use of the hardware in a > GNU/linux context... which I happen to be immersed in this week. > Please let me/us know about you're progress. > >> >>> 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 :) > > > certainly, and the sooner the better. >> >> Bye, >> >> Jeremy >> >> >>> Simon >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- Carlos sanchiavedraz * Musix GNU+Linux http://www.musix.es _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
