Re: $25 PC alpha board successfully runs Linux

2011-09-11 Thread Floor Terra
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Robert Keyes wrote: > > Linux is documentation...it's just not formal documentation. Regarding the > hardware price...what do you expect for $25? It's not a bad price. > A large part of the functionality resides in a BLOB that is loaded by the GPU before any OS is

Re: $25 PC alpha board successfully runs Linux

2011-09-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/10/11 22:22, Robert Keyes wrote: ... > Linux is documentation...it's just not formal documentation. Then we await your port of OpenBSD to this thing, since you know so much more about this. (first trick is to get one, of course. I've seen way too much vaporware that leads off with a wonder

Re: $25 PC alpha board successfully runs Linux

2011-09-11 Thread Miod Vallat
> Linux is documentation...it's just not formal documentation. I'm sorry, but I can't agree with that. Having Linux code only tells you how to drive a piece of hardware, the way Linux does. What if you want to use a particular function Linux doesn't use? What if Linux does things that way because