[Arm-netbook] Linus wingeing about ARM

[Henrik Nordström]

fre 2012-10-12 klockan 09:44 +0100 skrev Alain Williams:

>     Encourage your licensees to keep their Cortex designs built in a way that
>     helps software people (like the Linux kernel) reuse as much code across all
>     of your licensees chips. This will reduce bugs, speed development and so
>     reduce costs. Maybe ARM could have an engineer or two help coordinate
>     licensees.

A simple thing as ARM MALI userspace driver being the same across device
using the same MALI IP block would be a good start. Today Mali userspace
drivers are SoC dependent, AND need to match both X11 and kernel, which
is a major hinderance to Linux MALI adaptation. Unlike what Android are
used to, Linux distributions are not device specific.

Regards
Henrik