Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:26:02 -0600
Bruce Hill <daddy@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!



> 
> 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
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com