Linaro (non-profit organization) to help Linux mobile deployments
 

If you are confused by the title, is a reflection of me being confused as well, read more @ Engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/03/a...form-linaro-s/

Re: Linaro (non-profit organization) to help Linux mobile deployments
 

we should be able to prot this right? it says the first build will be for Cortex A devices. It also sounds like it will support phones.

Re: Linaro (non-profit organization) to help Linux mobile deployments
 

After further reading, it seems they aim to unify the efforts of the many vendors of mobile Linux solutions: the idea is to avoid them having to re-invent the wheel for the features they integrate in their devices.

So, let's say that vendor A needs to invest R&D to create an algorithm to improve 3G data transmission, vendor B notices that and does the same in their own way.

What Linaro intends to do is to develop that kind of stuff, and offer them to anyone that wants it. That should also help normalize distributions between platforms (MeeGo being the current one closes to "pure" Linux, with Android and other platforms trailing behind).

Re: Linaro (non-profit organization) to help Linux mobile deployments
 

Basically it sounds like they will work to make the kernel-chip level interactions easier across ARM chips. If I get this right it seems things like DJ Steves Android port will become trivial. Good news for us.

Re: Linaro (non-profit organization) to help Linux mobile deployments
 

Some more meat around the initial Linaro news release:

Towards Linaro 10.11 - by Jamie Bennett, the Linaro Release Manager for Canonical.

Linaro: Accelerating Linux on ARM - by Mark Shuttleworth, the honcho behind Canonical/Ubuntu.

With Intel being the other big partner behind MeeGo, things might get interesting here if most of the device sales and ODM designs happen on the ARM side of the fence...