On Dec 13, 2012 12:10 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:26:02 -0600 > Bruce Hill <da...@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 05:05:30PM +0000, James wrote: > > > > > > Alan, one of the keenest reasons ARM is dominating > > > NOW, is that in the early 1990 one person, helped > > > many fledling embedded linux hacks get embedded > > > linux running on many different flavors of ARM > > > processors. > > > > > > RUSSELL is KING, and imho is the predominant > > > reason today, a decade later, that ARM dominates > > > the embedded space. Just look at the vintage > > > embedded linux ports to hundreds of boards that > > > mostly impoverished little companies built > > > and ONE MAN stood in the gap for them all to > > > realize their dreams: > > > > > > http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/ > > > > > > Intel and the rest wanted everyone to purchase expensive > > > dev board, licensed embedded RTOSes, and binaries > > > for most add on hardware. A prospect that precluded > > > the little companies from fair competition. > > > > > > RUSSELL KING should be wealthy and on the Board > > > of directors for ARM ltd. for his unselfish > > > and heroic efforts! More than anyone else, he > > > made arm-linux a doable for thousands of companies > > > back when the embedded world did not think much > > > of linux nor embedded linux. (I know I hacked on a > > > few of those old projects).... > > > > > > Intel has nothing but a bunch of blood sucking > > > lawyers and assholes that think they are better > > > than the rest of us; and they shall fall! > > > > > > >From the Bible: "You reap what you sow"... > > > My most sincerest hope is that we take the embedded > > > gentoo efforts from the the embedded gentoo handbook, > > > and integrate them into the regular Gentoo handbook. > > > The distro that does this will be king of the distros! > > > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/ > > > > > > peace, > > > James > > > > ack for Russell King > > +1 to that too. > > I'd also like to tip my hat to ARM itself - their licensing conditions > to build cores seems very reasonable and a good deal for a > manufacturer, all bases covered. > > It's nice to see a chip designer not falling into the intel trap of > trying to rape every customer for every last cent they have! >
Don't get me started on that... I hate them for 'selectively' making CPU Features available. In my previous company, we more than once have to send back newly-purchased PCs because apparently the model we ordered had an 'upgrade', yet the *newer* CPU doesn't support VT-x. Such thing never happen with AMD Desktop CPUs. That's why my next home rig will be AMD-based. Rgds, --
