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Facebook Joins Linaro Linux-on-ARM Effort

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-tattoo dept.

dgharmon writes "It has been more than two years since Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson, and Texas Instruments formed a non-profit software company called Linaro to help focus the disparate efforts to get Linux running well on ARM processors and system-on-chip designs. A slew of companies, some new to the ARM racket, have joined the Linaro effort – and as of Thursday afternoon, so has social media juggernaut Facebook."

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  1. Makes sense. by cultiv8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/05/28/1632226/is-facebook-working-on-a-smartphone

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  2. Re:Um... by godrik · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course, that's not what Linaro is about. They are looking forward to stop the explosion of code and architecture within the ARM familly. No two ARM machine boots the same. No two ARM processors expose component the same way. You did not read Linus saying "what about stoping the ARM crap?"

    http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/18/1728227/arm-is-a-promising-platform-but-needs-to-learn-from-the-pc

  3. Not About Mobile by fm6 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even if Facebook is planning a smartphone (huh?) they don't have a lot of motivation to improve core Linux on ARM. I think it more likely that they're seriously looking at transitioning their (huge) data centers to ARM in order to save energy costs.

    I've poo-pooed ARM-server speculation in the past, but this goes way beyond speculation.