Creating a new ARM/AVR platform

[Jacob Mansfield]

On 29 Feb 2012, at 14:58, Liam Proven wrote:
> May I suggest you post in text, not HTML? That way multi-level quoting works.
I am manually snipping the older quotes

> TBH, I am not sure of the best place to start asking about moving
> ARM/Linux to a specific platform.
> 
> I would think some key questions would be:
> * Do you already have a reference platform or are you building your own?
We would be building our own hardware, completely from scratch

> * Have you chosen the chipset, componentry etc.?
All we know so far is that we will use an Intel Atom processor (that's now been decided)

> * Failing that, are you going with COTS hardware?
no, the hardware will be completely custom-designed

> * What distro do you want to use?
we are ideally looking at Debian or Ubuntu

> 
> If you were using a reference platform or COTS and, say, talking about
> Debian/ARM, I'd ask on the Debian developers' list.
> 
> If you were looking at a whole new bespoke platform, then perhaps the LKML.
> 
> Does that help at all?
> 
> I'd need to know more specifics if you wanted more detailed info. I
> understand that there might be issues of confidentiality but you'll
> have to sort out internally what you can & can't disclose and talk
> about if you want to get guidance and info from any public fora, not
> just this mailing list.
I am in charge of the project, we are willing to disclose most information regarding the hardware

 			JACOB MANSFIELD / Lead Developer
Blue Sapphire Media
email:  Jacob at bluesapphiremedia.co.uk
skype:  jacob.mansfield 

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