Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > uk.comp.os.linux > #20294

Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales

Cross-posted to 4 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

On 16/10/2016 23:02, 7 wrote:
> Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The biggest selling CPU boards of all time are those that have a debugging
> port for Uboot and systems that ship with stock Linux kernels.
> 
> These in turn have made the companies that make CPUs and release developer
> boards with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel the most
> successful on the planet displacing all other competitors in the same market.
> 
> The lesson for Linux gadget companies is to release ALL their hardware with built in
> Uboot serial debugging port, and use stock Linux kernels. Dump the uboot
> and Kernels to some download link to comply with GPL.
> Then you got the makings of a successful product.
> 
> What tends to happen is that people with time and tinkering
> experience upgrade the Kernel and improve on deficiencies and make
> secondary products that you can use to improve your own product,
> or it may create secondary sales, or it may lead to entire new
> class of products that you can make with all the new drivers, and hardware
> the tinkerers have got working for your product.
> 
> For the fabless semiconductor companies in China for example,
> this has led to complete world domination with working CPUs and
> numerous hardware on a time scale that no one have been able to match.
> 
> Some of these companies are making so much money they no longer
> want to make money by making any of their own gadgets. Instead they make
> completely new customized boards, with serial debug port, Linux kernel
> and uboot as a package for about $2000 for anybody
> that wants to pay this start up cost. They can turn around these
> new products in days to weeks.
> These ventures usually turn into $1 million orders within months.
> The time scales and time frames are just unbelievable.
> 
> For western companies that want to make use of these
> incredible resources, they need to have their own Linux teams ready
> to accept new hardware and add on their own software to make
> their IoT devices to finished products in months to make profit.
> To make the known formula work for your products,
> leave in the serial debug port, and dump uboot and Linux to some
> download site to satisfy the GPL and you got a product that will
> sell and sell for years to come.
> 

Got an example of one of these boards returning $1 million dollar orders?

Back to uk.comp.os.linux | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-10-16 22:02 +0000
  Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-17 17:16 +0100
    Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-10-17 18:44 +0000
      Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-17 21:06 +0100
        Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-10-17 21:39 +0000
          Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-18 09:50 +0100
            Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-10-18 21:15 +0000
  Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 12:47 +0100
    Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-19 14:09 +0200
      Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 14:36 +0100

csiph-web