This week's kerneltrap.com interview is with Russell King who originally ported Linux to ARM and continues to oversee ARM Linux development. Russell talks about ARM, the 2.4 kernel, the upcoming 2.5 kernel, and much more.

“Russell King: I ported Linux on to the ARM3 processor (as used in the A5000) single-handedly, including user space. There is a long story behind this, which can be read on my website. Later on, Martin Ebourne ported it to his later ARM710 based RiscPC. Back in those days, Linux was built under the native operating system, and utilities like diff and patch didn't exist. Consequently Martin's work didn't make it back into my tree. I later ported it to the Digital EBSA110 StrongARM evaluation platform, and then to a StrongARM RiscPC kindly donated by Acorn. At this point, the general structure of the ARM Linux kernel was set.

The main area that I'm now involved in is handling the ARM port of Linux, which basically means receiving patches from the various ARM developers, integrating them together cleanly, and making sure they all co-operate.”

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