[Oberon] A2 on ARM Linux Platform

[Skulski, Wojciech]

Liam:

  please consider a general "ARM Linux Platform" rather than just Rpi. The latter is closed source and bound to a particular company. They try hard to make it look like open hardware, which it is not. Broadcom is not even selling the Rpi processors to anyone except their subsidiary who is building Rpi boards. 

The "ARM Linux Platform" would cover Rpi, BeagleBone which is open source, and a whole variety of chinese-built open source boards. This would be much more in the spirit of Oberon, which is open to everyone. Supporting shrewd business M$-like strategy, which Rpi really is, is much less in the spirit of Oberon.

Thanks,
Wojtek
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From: Oberon [oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] on behalf of Liam Proven [lproven at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:59 AM
To: ETH Oberon and related systems
Subject: Re: [Oberon] Oberon Digest, Vol 160, Issue 21

I am hoping to help or facilitate a port of A2 to the Raspberry Pi,
hardware for which it seems ideal. Bolt on a Ceres CPU emulator and it
would be a lovely platform for the OS, and the OS an ideal educational
tool, I think.

But I'm probably daydreaming...