Re: Debian ARM meeting in Cambridge
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James <james@buffer.net> wrote:
Your reply is somewhat tangetial to my post, but I'll reply anyway.
> Is this support for Debian-arm based PC and PDA's only, or will the support
> include many of the arm cores, that are now available from a myriad of
> channels,
> such as microcontroller manufacturers, System on Chip vendors and IP
> core vendors for FPGA?
Debian ARM already runs on all modern (and many not-so-modern)
ARM-based chipsets. The exception is boot floppies (can't speak for
Debian installer), which only supports a small number of machines, but
there are many ways around this such as using debootstrap.
> My interests are more aligned with Debian-arm for development tools and
> consolidation
> of building kernels and applications for embedded systems, particularly
> 2.6.x based
> systems.
This is an area you are far from alone in - I know a number of
commerical customers who have the same interest.
> Arm as recently acquired Trisend, a company that offers a System On Chip,
> including an arm-7. Will support for this product line be included as
> part of the
> debian-arm effort?
Explictly - unlikely unless someone takes an interest, but see the
above.
> Any infomation Arm wants to provide on that SOC, and hundreds of other ARM*
> offerings, for Embedded support, via Debian, is most welcome, in addition to
> a roadmap for Arm +2.6.x embedded kernels.
I'm not in a position to speak about ARM's involvement in this; this is
probably better directed at Wookey. However, I would suggest that
most, if not all, of your issues are kernel related, and don't have
much bearing on Debian per se.
> Transient commercial tool offerings, are not very reassuring to
> companies that
> are considering ARM Projects. ARM+2.6_embedded_linux_kernel+Debian
> development tools
> would go a long way to atrracting more converts to the arm families of
> processors.
I'm sure that's true. But for various reasons much of the current
embedded effort is 2.4 focussed. I'm sure this will soon change.
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