On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:26:02 -0600 Bruce Hill <[email protected]> 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! > > Wish my Samsung Galaxy S could have it's piece of crap Android system > replaced by arm-linux -- if not it will drive me back to an iPhone. > > Well, idk James, but his passion is great to read! -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
