[Sugar-devel] The ARM is near
Tomeu Vizoso
tomeu at sugarlabs.org
Fri Aug 28 06:16:36 EDT 2009
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:56, Martin Langhoff<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Benjamin M.
> Schwartz<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> If you have the hardware to test these features, and the interest to make
>
> (cc'ing devel at l.l.o -- snipped Ben's outline of why it's important to
> get Sugar distros running on ARM devices)
>
> Some notes that might be of use
>
> - Marvell has some engineering samples of their ARM based boards.
> Distro porters can probably get hold of them -- I landed one for XS
> porting :-) and I am hoping to work on it with Bert Desmet here in
> Brussels.
>
> - The 'Sheeva plug' can be used as a porting platform -- same chipset
> as larger devices.
Also, Sugar has been reported to run on the Gdium which uses a MIPS
Loongson CPU. If someone on this list has access to one of those, we
could check that activities with binaries are made to run there as
well.
Regards,
Tomeu
> - Fedora has a 'secondary arch' ARM port for F11 -- probably
> interesting to SoaS people.
>
> hth,
>
>
> m
> --
> martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
> - ask interesting questions
> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
> _______________________________________________
> Sugar-devel mailing list
> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>
--
«Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar.
What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David
Farning
More information about the Sugar-devel
mailing list