From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: john@jjdev.com (John de la Garza) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 09:03:27 -0700 Subject: Completely open sourced ARM board In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20140530160326.GA5546@vega.jjdev.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 02:13:14PM +0530, Saurabh Jain wrote: > Hello every one ! > > I am learning how to customize Linux kernel to make it portable on embedded > systems. To test my customized kernel , i want a completely open sourced > ARM board . I listened about Raspberry pi but it's firmware "start.elf" is > not open source. So can anybody tell me the name of the ARM board which is > completely open sourced ? And can there exists any such board whose > ROM/AVRAM contents can also be replaced ? > www.acmesystems.it makes boards that are supported by mainline kernel. No need to find any patches or some company's fork. I choose this board for this reason... At the time I made my purchase the beagle board code wasn't in the mainline kernel and I didn't want to depend on TI to provide me with new kernel code.