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Ubuntu on ARM info by Canonical
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 6:34 pm
by Sabre
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It’s about hardware acceleration, about standardization of boot process and other aspects of the ARM platforms, this is about focusing development efforts to solve the most important challenges and provide thus open source and free software tools to be used by all ARM Powered Linux based products. With faster memory bus speeds coming up in the next generation of Desktop-centric ARM Processors, such as support for DDR3 RAM speeds, the implementation of multiple cores as in upcoming ARM Cortex A9 processors, the standardization of how to use graphics and video hardware acceleration to speed up user interfaces, applications and features. Those are the challenges that Canonical and its partners are working very hard on and plan to implement in actual products that can start to be sold to the mass market during these coming months.
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Good stuff!
Re: Ubuntu on ARM info by Canonical
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:23 pm
by complacent
I can't wait to see when the lines between different architectures are completely blurred.
Re: Ubuntu on ARM info by Canonical
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:50 pm
by Sabre
It's pretty much up to two things: Making libraries that are universal amoung OS's and the compilers. If those two fell in line, you could run any program anywhere.
Re: Ubuntu on ARM info by Canonical
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:05 pm
by ElZorro
complacent wrote:I can't wait to see when the lines between different architectures are completely blurred.
But is that necessarily a good thing? If we use the same architecture for every application we'll end up with systems that aren't fast enough for some, aren't power efficient enough for some, aren't cheap enough for some, aren't small enough for some. Admittedly, I'm really excited about the way multicore processors and scaling has worked to leverage an architecture across more applications, but I think thats only a 90% solution.
Or maybe I'm missing your intent.
Re: Ubuntu on ARM info by Canonical
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:21 pm
by Mr Kleen
just make
everything super small, extremely fast and extra energy efficient.
Re: Ubuntu on ARM info by Canonical
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:08 pm
by complacent
ElZorro wrote:complacent wrote:I can't wait to see when the lines between different architectures are completely blurred.
But is that necessarily a good thing? If we use the same architecture for every application we'll end up with systems that aren't fast enough for some, aren't power efficient enough for some, aren't cheap enough for some, aren't small enough for some. Admittedly, I'm really excited about the way multicore processors and scaling has worked to leverage an architecture across more applications, but I think thats only a 90% solution.
Or maybe I'm missing your intent.
perhaps i was a bit brief... i'm really excited for when architecture is versatile as code is. when one can pick x86 vs arm vs whatever the same way one would opt for a particular language. i think once the tools are strong enough on all platforms, the end products are going to be left up to the designer's imagination, skill and budget in a way that we can't do now... because one won't necessarily have to find "an arm guy" to do xyz and "an x86 guy" to do abc.
i think it'll be cool.
Re: Ubuntu on ARM info by Canonical
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:55 pm
by PGT
Canonical is a good outfit. I'm happy to see what they've done evangelizing cloud computing. Simon Wardley gives a great speech.