Worth a read
Worth a read
Posted Aug 31, 2011 22:14 UTC (Wed) by TommyAtkins (guest, #79496)In reply to: Worth a read by marcH
Parent article: Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later
> how many ARM platforms not supporting Linux?
How would anyone other than ARM know that?
> Running more firmware usually requires more silicon, which costs money on a per-chip basis. As seen in this discussion Linux development can be costly too but since it is software it's a once off.
That trade-off only works in linux's favour if you are paying for the core which runs your firmware, but not the one running linux. If you are SoC vendor, it's the same either way. Or even in favour of *not* putting the code in linux, under some circumstances...
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