[fedora-arm] Cheap ARM devices

[Adam Miller]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Lennert Buytenhek
<buytenh at wantstofly.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:04:51PM -0600, Adam Miller wrote:
>
>> >> > Hi All,
>> >> > I just saw these ARM9 based Archos devices on LinuxDevices. They're sub $200
>> >> > so might be a worth while target for Fedora support as they're relatively
>> >> > cheap.
>> >> > http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Archos-Home-Tablets/?kc=rss
>> >> > Cheers,
>> >> > Peter
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> They are slated for release next month and I already have plans to
>> >> pick up the $179 model as I'm always short on cash but would love
>> >> something to hack on and I think this would be a justified expense. I
>> >> have plans to use the tablet as my Linux/Fedora embedded/ARM learning
>> >> platform so I can't promise much in terms of results, but the end goal
>> >> would definitely be to have fedora running on there with some sort of
>> >> graphical environment (I'm thinking maybe KDE since it has a really
>> >> good on screen keyboard, but I'm open to suggestion).
>> >
>> > I think the floodgates are about to open on many categories of ARM
>> > devices. I wonder if this thing has the RAM to run Fedora well, though?
>> >
>> > -Chris
>> >
>>
>> RAM is a really good point, I think it will be in the ballpark of 256
>> (plus or minus a bit). Also, I'd like to open up the conversation
>> about version of ARM we as a SIG want to support as the efforts start
>> to ramp up while targeting popular devices. I think ARMv9 might be a
>> little too aggressive but are there any devices that are still
>> prominent that are ARMv5? Would it be possible (or even feasible) to
>> maintain ARMv5, ARMv7, and ARMv9 in parallel and treat them as
>> separate architectures?
>
> Note that "ARM9" (note the lack of v) is a particular implementation
> of version N of the ARM architecture specification, while "ARMvN" is
> version N of the ARM architecture specficiation.  There is no ARMv9
> at this point, and even ARMv8 hasn't been published yet.
>

Yeah, I realized that after I posted. I'm still learning my way around
ARM as a whole and I'm only a few chapters into my embedded linux
book. I still don't own an arm board yet, something else I'm working
on changing.
    Sorry about that.

I think ARMv5 is still a solid target all things considered and since
it was mentioned to me that the SheevaPlug is ARMv5 (and is quite
popular to the best of my knowledge)

-AdamM
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