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ARM Linux And Russell King Interview

Posted by michael on from the arming-the-kernel dept.

Jeremy Andrews writes: "Kerneltrap has posted the latest in-depth kernel hacker interview with Russell King, who originally ported Linux to ARM and continues to oversee ARM Linux development. Russell talks about ARM, the 2.4 kernel, the upcoming 2.5 kernel and much more..."

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  1. Re:arm / garmin etrex venture by ajlitt · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a Cirrus EP7212 (I think, may be a 7312). Anyway, 74MHz ARM720T, memory controller, dual RS232 UART, dual audio CODEC interfaces, LCD, RTC, serial bootstrap (all you need to do the initial flash load is access to the UART0 RS232), and power management. Linux runs on these, as well as a bunch of other RTOSes.

  2. Re:ARM linux? by jakmouw · · Score: 2, Informative

    You misunderstood something. The GPL protects you against patent claims, the BSD license doesn't.

    If you take some BSD code and GPL it, you must be pretty damn sure that it's not patented code. Not many people want to take that bet.