On 2 January 2013 17:43, Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org> wrote:
sigh.. :-| I just entered this world of small devices and arm boards and my initial impression is wow, this has future, but its ecosystem is in a deeply awful sorry state.
everybody has its own incompatible bootloader, kernel, tools etc..just a huge mess. :-(
This unfortunately is indeed the current state of affairs, and is something that is recognised and acknowledged by ARM them selves. This is one reason why with the new ARMv8 architecture ARM is working with as wide a group of partners as possible, covering the whole stack from the hardware up to the application itself. Multiple OS vendors are involved, and things are in motion to standardise on common components (UEFI/GRUB2/etc).
I wonder if any organization is working in getting stuff together..
Well, Linaro is striving to make sure that those interested in ARM (certainly from a Linux PoV) try and work together and stop duplicating work. Their aim is to have everything upstreamed and all their kernels are as upstream as SUSE and Red Hat's, which is a *HUGE* improvement. I'm not saying it's perfect but it goes a hell of a long way and is our best chance of standardisation. Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin GPG: 0x3A36312F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org