{"id":274,"date":"2012-10-07T12:49:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T12:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=274"},"modified":"2012-10-27T09:36:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T09:36:48","slug":"linux-kernel-3-7-will-support-all-arm-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Linux Kernel 3.7 Will Support All ARM Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_275\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-275\" style=\"width: 128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2012\/10\/Crystal_Clear_app_tux.png\" alt=\"Tux - the Linux kernel mascot\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"size-full wp-image-275\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tux &#8211; the Linux kernel mascot<\/figcaption><\/figure>It was recently announced that when it is released in some 6 months&#8217; time, the forthcoming Linux 3.7 kernel will incorporate support for multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARM_architecture\"><acronym title=\"Advanced RISC Machine and Acorn RISC Machine\">ARM<\/acronym><\/a> System on Chips (SoCs) platforms, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Linux-Kernel-3-7-Will-Support-All-ARM-Platforms-297042.shtml\">Softpedia reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Having all ARM platforms supported by a single kernel package is a good news for everyone from end users to hardware manufacturers who base their kit on ARM chips and the Android operating system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a pretty significant branch. It&#8217;s the introduction of the first multiplatform support on ARM&#8221;, said kernel developer Olof Johansson on the <a href=\"http:\/\/git.kernel.org\/?p=linux\/kernel\/git\/torvalds\/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9cd11c0c47b8690b47e7573311ce5c483cb344ed\">Linux kernel Git commit page<\/a>. &#8220;And with this (and the later branch) merged, it is now possible to build one kernel that contains support for highbank, vexpress, mvebu, socfpga, and picoxcell&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When Linux kernel 3.7 is released (<em>the latest Linux kernel release at the time of writing is 3.6. Ed.<\/em>), it will initially provide support the following ARM platforms: VExpress, Highbank, SoC FPGA, Picoxcell and Mvebu, although support for more ARM platforms will be added to subsequent kernel releases.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/techrights.org\/?stories\">Roy Schestowitz<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was recently announced that when it is released in some 6 months&#8217; time, the forthcoming Linux 3.7 kernel will incorporate support for multiple ARM System on Chips (SoCs) platforms, Softpedia reports. Having all ARM platforms supported by a single kernel package is a good news for everyone from end users to hardware manufacturers who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[19,12,23],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}