On 16 Apr 2012, at 14:01, Mark Rogers wrote:
Separately: I've not done a lot with ARM in the past. How transferable are skills learned (and code written) between ARM platforms? I quite like the look of some of the ARM dev boards you can get on eBay, for example, and I'm sure the range of options will only increase over time, so I don't want to tie myself to the R.Pi any more than I need to at this stage.
ARM covers quite a range, from full debian installs to bare cpu with 32K. The higher end boards, quite standard linux. Some of the smaller systems are, well, standard embedded linux, openwrt+busybox+uboot. These are quite transferrable to various boards and even architectures. The os free systems, though... The details tend to be quite different between boards. Different toolchains, compiler options, jtag. Never mind peripherals! But the workflow is quite similar. Bill