Here's my two rubles on the subject:
TS needs to take a long hard look at the way Microchip does things. Their
support, examples, tutorials, training, is all excellent. It makes developing
products based on their products much easier than having to reinvent the wheel
constantly.
I bought into the TS world because I'm working on an actual product not a
university lab exercise. For me, having to figure out how to build toolchains
and distros isn't efficient use of my time. In this day and age, this sort of
stuff should be completely turnkey by now and host platform agnostic.
Beyond that, my goal is to make a Linux appliance that can be switched on and
off without clumsy startup or shutdown procedures. TS would do well to provide
a complete solution to this. At the moment I'm planning to contract them to
build a 2.6 distro with EXT3 support. I don't mind paying for this but why
isn't it an off-the-shelf thing one can buy?
And I even don't really mind having to build a toolchain as long as it doesn't
give me cryptic errors that nobody seems to really have documented how to fix.
The bottom line is that if TS wants to become the de facto standard for
embedded Linux SBCs then they need to insulate customers from the hardcore
details of Linux so customers can concentrate on building their end-user
products. Trolltech is a good example of details that can be insulated. These
days there should be no need to develop a cross-platform application framework.
Yes, yes, I hear the counter argument about standing on the shoulders of
giants and if you feel that way, go ahead and design a computer from the chips
up every time you want to build a product. QT exists for a reason.
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