Ask HN: Why is the software ecosystem of single-board computers so ugly?

Re:Ask HN: Why is the software ecosystem of single-board com... by nascentmind on Monday December 28, 2015 @04:12AM (#10800465)

I see a lot of people having problems with the BSP. Excuse me for the shameless plug but I am developing an open source baremetal firmware for the Samsung SoC S3C2440 ( https://github.com/mindentropy/s3c2440-mdk ) and planning to port this to S3C2451. These are found in HP IPaq etc. It will be basically a tutorial for people trying to develop their own firmware or as reference code for bringing the SoC and the controller's up i.e. Drivers for the controllers and also the ARM board bring up code. It can also be used to test the board by testing individual IP's.

I am planning on supporting Samsung SoC's and will start of with TI AM335x Sitara series and FriendlyARM's NanoPi2 which contains the Samsung SoC S5P4418

I am running behind OEM/ODM's for funding me for development of their SoC's and nobody seems to be interested except FriendlyARM. What do you think I should be doing to get some funding for this?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the software ecosystem of single-board com... by lifeisstillgood on Monday December 28, 2015 @07:24AM (#10800812)

Wow - keep publishing would be my advice. Build an audience - eventually that will drive a critical mass.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the software ecosystem of single-board com... by nascentmind on Monday December 28, 2015 @11:13AM (#10801791)

Thanks! I also have a blog ( http://thesoulofamachine.blogspot.in/ ) where I go in detail explaining parts of the code of the various subsystems to get things up and running. I have developed without any costly JTAG tools and the code is compiled using free GNU tools keeping learners in mind who cannot afford costly development tools although a good scope would be great to debug clocks.

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