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On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:26:02 -0600 |
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Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 05:05:30PM +0000, James wrote: |
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> > Alan, one of the keenest reasons ARM is dominating |
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> > NOW, is that in the early 1990 one person, helped |
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> > many fledling embedded linux hacks get embedded |
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> > linux running on many different flavors of ARM |
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> > processors. |
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> > RUSSELL is KING, and imho is the predominant |
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> > reason today, a decade later, that ARM dominates |
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> > the embedded space. Just look at the vintage |
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> > embedded linux ports to hundreds of boards that |
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> > mostly impoverished little companies built |
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> > and ONE MAN stood in the gap for them all to |
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> > realize their dreams: |
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> > http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/ |
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> > |
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> > Intel and the rest wanted everyone to purchase expensive |
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> > dev board, licensed embedded RTOSes, and binaries |
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> > for most add on hardware. A prospect that precluded |
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> > the little companies from fair competition. |
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> > |
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> > RUSSELL KING should be wealthy and on the Board |
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> > of directors for ARM ltd. for his unselfish |
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> > and heroic efforts! More than anyone else, he |
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> > made arm-linux a doable for thousands of companies |
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> > back when the embedded world did not think much |
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> > of linux nor embedded linux. (I know I hacked on a |
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> > few of those old projects).... |
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> > Intel has nothing but a bunch of blood sucking |
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> > lawyers and assholes that think they are better |
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> > than the rest of us; and they shall fall! |
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> > |
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> > >From the Bible: "You reap what you sow"... |
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> > My most sincerest hope is that we take the embedded |
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> > gentoo efforts from the the embedded gentoo handbook, |
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> > and integrate them into the regular Gentoo handbook. |
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> > The distro that does this will be king of the distros! |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/ |
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> > peace, |
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> > James |
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> ack for Russell King |
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+1 to that too. |
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I'd also like to tip my hat to ARM itself - their licensing conditions |
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to build cores seems very reasonable and a good deal for a |
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manufacturer, all bases covered. |
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It's nice to see a chip designer not falling into the intel trap of |
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trying to rape every customer for every last cent they have! |
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> Wish my Samsung Galaxy S could have it's piece of crap Android system |
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> replaced by arm-linux -- if not it will drive me back to an iPhone. |
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> Well, idk James, but his passion is great to read! |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |