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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. ARM linux? by krog · · Score: 2, Funny

    i used to hear a lot of talk about "booting" and "bootstrapping" linux... now it's moved all the way up to the arm! good work guys -- i look forward to installing it when it runs on a computer!

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    1. Re:ARM linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      "People new to Linux do ask about the Linux and BSD people sharing code, but there are problems with this - mainly there are concerns over patents with the BSD license."

      erm, correct me if i'm wrong, but there's nothing that stops Linux people from taking code from the *BSDs.

      there is, however, something that stops *BSD people from taking code from Linux and putting it in their kernels - the GPL.

      *BSD people don't want kernels that can't run without GPL code.

      Linux people can always take *BSD code and smack a GPL on top of the BSD license.

      seems to me like Russell King has misunderstood something.

    2. Re:ARM linux? by Error27 · · Score: 2

      I'm fairly sure that he knows what he is talking about.

      They were discussing this week ago on the lkml but www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/ is down right now so I can't find the link.

      It was in a thread about module_licenses.

    3. 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.

  2. arm / garmin etrex venture by vstanescu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anybody ever tried to disassemble the OS of a garmin etrex gps ? (afaik, they are strongarm). If yes, i would appreciate some hints for doing this..

    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.

  3. Re:please don't tack flamebait onto my story by Zigg · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He didn't tack flamebait onto your story. He's 100% correct.