On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabh4768jain@gmail.com> wrote:

am learning how to customize Linux kernel to make it portable on embedded systems. To test my customized kernel , i want a completely open sourced ARM board . I listened about Raspberry pi but it's firmware "start.elf" is not open source. So can anybody tell me the name of the ARM board which is completely open sourced ?

Beagleboard/Beaglebone come to my mind. There must be other such boards too. Google is your friend.

And can there exists any such board whose ROM/AVRAM contents can also be replaced ?

Not sure if Beagle variants allow that. Have only slightly worked on BeagleBone. -- Kartik http://k4rtik.wordpress.com/

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 02:13:14PM +0530, Saurabh Jain wrote:

Hello every one !

I am learning how to customize Linux kernel to make it portable on embedded systems. To test my customized kernel , i want a completely open sourced ARM board . I listened about Raspberry pi but it's firmware "start.elf" is not open source. So can anybody tell me the name of the ARM board which is completely open sourced ? And can there exists any such board whose ROM/AVRAM contents can also be replaced ?

www.acmesystems.it makes boards that are supported by mainline kernel. No need to find any patches or some company's fork. I choose this board for this reason... At the time I made my purchase the beagle board code wasn't in the mainline kernel and I didn't want to depend on TI to provide me with new kernel code.