quartercast
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I was wondering if you or Craig have ever tried signing up for a membership with Linaro? They seem to have a lot of experience building Linux distros including Android for ARM SoC devices.
Any idea of the membership fees/costs involved?
http://www.linaro.org/about/
http://www.linaro.or...getting-started
I think I checked them out before and their website has been updated; it seems to have opened up a lot more now, they look very approachable and provide lots of information.
Could this be worth a kickstarter/community funding scheme?
Cheers,
quartercast
Edit: for the benefit of lazy types like me
Any idea of the membership fees/costs involved?
http://www.linaro.org/about/
http://www.linaro.or...getting-started
I think I checked them out before and their website has been updated; it seems to have opened up a lot more now, they look very approachable and provide lots of information.
Could this be worth a kickstarter/community funding scheme?
Cheers,
quartercast
Edit: for the benefit of lazy types like me
What does Linaro do?
Linaro is a not-for-profit engineering organization with over 120 engineers working on consolidating and optimizing open source software for the ARM architecture, including the GCC toolchain, the Linux kernel, ARM power management, graphics and multimedia interfaces.
To ensure commecial quality software, Linaro's work includes comprehensive test and validation on member hardware platforms. The full scope of Linaro's engineering work is open to all online. Open engineering has been practised from the start at Linaro with plans, specifications and progress available for inspection on the developer Wiki. Linaro is distribution neutral: it wants to provide the best software foundations to everyone, and to reduce non-differentiating and costly low level fragmentation.
The value of Linaro
Linaro's key value is in working on generic ARM technology that is common to all ARM SoC vendors. In this way engineering costs are shared, rather than each vendor having to implement core software technology themselves, which has resulted in fragmentation and overhead in maintaining code that cannot be upstreamed to the mainline Linux kernel and other open source projects. Linaro's output is used by its members, and by distributions including Android, Ubuntu and OEM/ODM customized versions of Linux. In addition to sharing development costs, Linaro reduces the cost of maintenance for members with its focus on upstreaming into key open source projects including GCC and Kernel.org, and the implementation of standards, such as DeviceTree, which reduce the amount of work involved in bringing up multiple platforms.
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