[opensuse-arm] timeline?
Hi all, Is there any rough idea if/when something bootable will be available? Point is, people want to replace desktops with HP-thinclients, And the (VIA) HP T5550 is more than double the price of the (ARM) HP T5335. For a dozen or so that should not matter, but for serious (3+ digits) numbers.... Furthermore some of us here would like to see a tablet running Linux. Personally, I would rather see SuSE on it, but is that realistic? I noticed that on the OBS, under "Ports" there is a 11.2/crosscompiled/arm7 tree Any progress been made towards a more-or-less full distro? Hans (hoping it gets through...) ______________________________________________________________________ Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-arm+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:33:52 +0200 J.Witvliet@mindef.nl wrote:
Hi all,
Is there any rough idea if/when something bootable will be available?
Point is, people want to replace desktops with HP-thinclients, And the (VIA) HP T5550 is more than double the price of the (ARM) HP T5335. For a dozen or so that should not matter, but for serious (3+ digits) numbers....
Furthermore some of us here would like to see a tablet running Linux.
Personally, I would rather see SuSE on it, but is that realistic?
I noticed that on the OBS, under "Ports" there is a 11.2/crosscompiled/arm7 tree Any progress been made towards a more-or-less full distro?
Hans (hoping it gets through...)
Hans, I too (and others) have wondered about this. The recently approved openSUSE strategy said, I think, that mobile devices are not a goal for openSUSE. You and I know that most mobile devices use ARM processors but there are a few desktop class devices that do also. More ARM desktop and server devices are expected in the near future. Ubuntu has announced that they intend to support ARM servers. They are current testing using Pandaboards. In the mean time I believe the openSUSE project's response to your question is "Thank you for volunteering". That have said a port to ARM is welcome but they can provide only general assistance. The Linaro foundation has links to development hardware. http://www.linaro.org/low-cost-development-boards Compulab is offering discounts on their Trimslice desktops is you can convince them you will use it to port an open source project to ARM. http://trimslice.com/web/dev-kit Marvell has a number of development kits available for purchase. Most of them are ARM5 processors but the not-yet-available D2plug is an ARM7 processor. http://plugcomputer.org/development-kits/ As you know the OBS can build ARM packages. openSUSE uses kiwi to turn those packages in to deploy-able images. I don't think it has been tested on ARM but it is written in PERL and should be easy to port. So there you go. Talk your employer into buying a few development kits. Install another distribution on it. Port kiwi to that and try to build an openSUSE image for it. In days, weeks, months or years you will have a working openSUSE distribution. I am sure you win a t-shirt for that :). Bill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-arm+help@opensuse.org
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