On 27.09.2011, at 16:30, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:05:44PM +0100, Andrew Wafaa wrote:
Sorry for the cross posting, but I thought it worth the extra noise ;-)
One of the things that came out of the recent Geeko Love-In for me was a new project to immerse myself in within openSUSE. Yeah I know, we have enough existing projects already so why create a new one? Simples! Believe it or not but openSUSE is behind the curve in a specific segment, and that segment has yet to explode to its full potential. That segment is ARM. No I'm not talking about your upper body appendages, but the architecture that powers most of your little devices (and some bigger ones too). Almost all smartphones, tablets and many other consumer devices are powered by ARM from one of the numerous licensees.
Didn't openSUSE do something about this a while ago? Yes we did. Unfortunately the effort seems to have bitrotted somewhat, there were numerous reasons and I don't even prophesise to know the all either.
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Hi!
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Ah, cool. That might be very interesting, yes. Andrew, please join there too :).
There's already been a big meetup at LPC earlier on this month, and we're resolving to do more regular sessions in the future. If there's anything we can help with, please shout!
Right now we're trying to bootstrap some base packages with hardfp still. If you like, you can see the current progress on: https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?project=Base:build:arm I'm pretty sure that we could use quite some help once we get the base system up and running and want to move on to activate the full system. For now, there is only so much work that can be parallelized unfortunately. Alex