Peter Naulls wrote:
I've got someone here who'd like a meeting with Debian ARM developers in the Cambridge area. The topic is somewhat close to what Wookey mentioned on the Debian ARM list a while again regarding his meeting with ARM. That is, potential sponsorship of Debian projects.
It will be a very much informal affair, probably in some Cambridge pub sometime next week (weekend is not out of the question), and although the focus is ARM, anyone with a general interest in Debian development would be encouraged to also come.
If you're interested in coming, and there's any day/time you can't make, drop me an email, and I'll see what I can do to keep everyone happy.
Hello Peter,
Is this support for Debian-arm based PC and PDA's only, or will the support
include many of the arm cores, that are now available from a myriad of channels,
such as microcontroller manufacturers, System on Chip vendors and IP core vendors for FPGA?
My interests are more aligned with Debian-arm for development tools and consolidation
of building kernels and applications for embedded systems, particularly 2.6.x based
systems.
Arm as recently acquired Trisend, a company that offers a System On Chip,
including an arm-7. Will support for this product line be included as part of the
debian-arm effort? We, have several products out on this SOC, but,
support for the Microsoft based tools are very weak, to the point that we cannot
get customer's to risk a new product design on that processor, currently.
Any infomation Arm wants to provide on that SOC, and hundreds of other ARM* offerings, for Embedded support, via Debian, is most welcome, in addition to a roadmap for Arm +2.6.x embedded kernels.
Transient commercial tool offerings, are not very reassuring to companies that
are considering ARM Projects. ARM+2.6_embedded_linux_kernel+Debian development tools
would go a long way to atrracting more converts to the arm families of processors.
James
