To develop, port and debug the Linux kernel on a platform, you will need to be able to set breakpoints, view registers, view memory, single-step at source level and so on - all the normal facilities provided by a debugger.  You may also need to do these…

The Open Source community has been busy at work targeting Arm based infrastructure platforms as evidenced by the tens of thousands of packages already available via traditional distribution channels from Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, SUSE, fedora, CentOS, FreeBSD,