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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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> 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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> 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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> >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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Wish my Samsung Galaxy S could have it's piece of crap Android system replaced |
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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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