Creating a new ARM/AVR platform

[Jacob Mansfield]

On 29 Feb 2012, at 14:41, Liam Proven wrote:
> What? There *is* already an Ubuntu edition for ARM. It's a bit rough
> around the edges but it's there.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM
> 
> ARM is a supported platform already for Debian:
> http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/
> 
> There is no need to port Linux to ARM - it's been done, long ago, and
> is getting fairly mature now. Linux on ARM is of course the basis of
> Android, which with many hundreds of millions of users is far and away
> the most popular user-facing form of Linux in existence.
> 
> However, there is no equivalent to the IBM PC-compatible as a
> "reference platform" for ARM. Each ARM Linux implementation needs a
> port to that specific mainboard, chipset, etc.
> 
> Is this what the OP was asking about?


That was more the information I was looking for, how to tell the kernal/debian/ubuntu about the specifics of the motherboard, how to use the graphics/ram, etc
 			JACOB MANSFIELD / Lead Developer
Blue Sapphire Media
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