On 01/09/2015 at 16:50, Anselm Lingnau wrote: [...]
> From an abstract POV it might be interesting to cover non-Intel > platforms (especially ARM) IMO the interest in non-Intel architectures like ARM is more than abstract. It has to do with two magic words: mobile and IoT. Like it or not, they are the future. > but the risk is that this will drag in all sorts of baggage that, > while probably worthwhile for broadening candidates' horizons, is > irrelevant to many people's daily practice as well as difficult to > teach, because education providers are unlikely to have the required > hardware around. I am a little perplexed because, as far as I know, mobile non Intel hardware today is more abundant, widespread and used compared to classic Intel desktops: http://www.displaydaily.com/paid-news/349-ldm-mdm/ldm-mdm-market-news/28636-mobile-continues-to-surpass-desktop-in-workstation-market «Mobile Continues to Surpass Desktop in Workstation Market <http://www.displaydaily.com/paid-news/349-ldm-mdm/ldm-mdm-market-news/28636-mobile-continues-to-surpass-desktop-in-workstation-market>» > I'm saying that as somebody who just spent a quarter of an hour this > morning talking about Wifi (as per LPI-201) in a classroom that didn't > have any Wifi hardware except my own laptop and the > Raspberry-Pi-with-a-USB-Wifi-dongle that I brought in as a Linux-based > Wifi access point. Aww, com'on, it's been many years that every laptop sold had a WiFi unit built-in, and even some Dell desktops are marketed with a WiFi card built-in. USB WiFi dongles cost close to nothing. And that's leaving out all mobile units. And what about the many single-board computers that regularly come with WiFi either built-in or available as an add-on module, and cheap WiFi-enabled DSL modems and routers, many if not most running some custom embedded Linux firmware? You can have a brand new OpenWRT compatible wireless device for as little as 15€. I think LPI is dangerously lagging behind the latest evolutions of the IT and Linux in these areas that are chewing up a significant and ever larger slice of the general-purpose computing devices market. > If anything we will have to increase our coverage of UEFI because that > is something that people are actually likely to run into if they're > not embedded- system developers. Indeed we do. Greetings, -- Alessandro Selli <[email protected]> Tel. portatile: 340.839.73.05 VOIP SIP: [email protected] Chiave firma PGP/GPG signing key: B7FD89FD Chiave crittografia PGP/GPG encrypting key: A6023DD5
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