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Canonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platformCanonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platformPosted Nov 15, 2008 21:28 UTC (Sat) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)In reply to: Canonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platform by mdz@debian.org Parent article: Canonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platform
Let me put a finer point on it because I may be confused. The press release mentions only ARMv7.. but a blog post on planet ubuntu mentions that to get to ARMv7 a bootstrap ARMv5 environment may be required.
ref: http://idlethread.blogspot.com/2008/11/ubuntu-on-arm_14.html
Is Canonical committing to opening up official Ubuntu ports for ARMv5 and ARMv6 that can use the existing Ubuntu branding, and shared release cycle?
Or is this just an ARMv7 offering?
If Canonical isn't committing to offering ARMv5 and ARMv6 ports under the Ubuntu community brand... why not?
If Canonical isn't committing to offering ARMv5 and ARMv6 ports under the Ubuntu community brand... can you (informally on behalf of Canonical) outline the steps that interested Ubuntu community people would need to take in order to make ARMv5 and ARMv6 ports official Ubuntu offerings which get access to the trademarks and the cna participate in the release cycle and community qa initatives ?
-jef
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Canonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platform Posted Nov 15, 2008 23:30 UTC (Sat) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link]
As Amit explained in the blog post you've referred to, the port currently in progress does in fact target ARMv5 as a baseline and selectively optimize for ARMv7.
The steps to use the official bits on ARMv5 or ARMv6 should be, well, none at all. Much of the initial development work has been done on ARMv5 devices because they're plentiful, and I expect that much of the ARM community will be testing Ubuntu on ARMv5 devices until ARMv7 devices become more widely available.
I can't comment on any future plans.
If you have further questions, you're welcome to ask them (politely) on the ubuntu-mobile mailing list.
Canonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platform Posted Nov 15, 2008 23:50 UTC (Sat) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
testing Ubuntu on ARMv5...does that mean there will be an ARMv5 Ubuntu "release"? You didn't actually say, and I'm not going to assume "testing" means "release". It could mean a PPA for all I know. If there is going to be an ARMv5 release... just throw out another press release.. or and addendum...or an announcement on a mailinglist anywhere that can be referenced for n810 owners who aspire to run Ubuntu.
Failing that is there going to be something for ARMv5/ARMv6 like the non-supported community powerpc/sparc ports already open inside Ubuntu?
ref: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/intrepid/release/
-jef"always polite"spaleta
Canonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platform Posted Nov 20, 2008 8:30 UTC (Thu) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]
"on the ubuntu-mobile mailing list." See https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
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