Re: OpenEuphoria on the raspberry pi
- Posted by EUWX Feb 12, 2013
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"1. Prominent features in Linux 3.7 1.1. ARM multi-platform support
A typical Linux distribution for x86 PC computers can boot and work in hundreds of different PC (different CPU vendor, different GPU models, different motherboards and chipsets, etc) using a single distribution install media. This ability to be able to boot in different hardware configurations is taken as a given in the PC world. However, it didn't exist in the Linux ARM world. The ARM ecosystem has historically been driven by the embedded world, where hardware enumeration isn't even possible in many cases, so each ARM kernel image was targeted for a specific embedded hardware target. It couldn't boot in other ARM systems.
In this release, the Linux ARM implementation has added "multi-platform" support - the ability to build a single ARM kernel image that is able to boot multiple hardware. This will make much easier for distributors to support ARM platforms. "
I would agree that a distro build specifically to address the ARM processor of Rapberry Pi would and should work, but having talked with the "gurus" last summer at the FOSS conference in Toronto, I came away with the impression that the young man (Greene) working on Fedora 17 and Raspberry Pi was "wasting his time". He did come out with a release, and now he has come out with a release based on Fedora 18!
I have very poor knowledge of Linux to actually work doing the type of work Ira is doing, but my grandson might kick me into doing it!
