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