Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Microblaze uClinux 2.6.11

["Doug Gibbs" <douggxlnx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Antti,
Are you trying to bait someone at Xilinx into doing official support?
Maybe John has some numbers about subscribers on this list. The only
way a company would respond is if they believe it is worth $$$.
Doug


On 8/1/06, Antti Lukats <lukats@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I know that all the Microblaze-uClinux porting is done by people only from
> enthusiasim (eg not funded) so there is nothing to expect. That is of course
> rather bad situation for Xilinx fans - NIOS2 uclinux is supported by an real
> company (Microtronix) who has made all the work to get uClinux 2.6.11 to
> work on NIOS2.
>
> It makes me envy to see that Altera/NIOS2 users can use uClinux 2.6.11
> because of the effort of Microtronix, but Xilinx/Microblaze users are pretty
> much forced to use 2.4.32 uClinux because there is nobody commercially
> interested in linux 2.6 Microblaze support.
>
> Sad story. There are many drivers that are available for 2.6 but not for 2.4
> or have issues or need more work. Having MicroBlaze uClinux 2.6 support
> would save tons of my time (that I spend with 2.4 compatible driver
> porting). Of course one solution would be to switch to Altera - but for most
> of the projects its really not possible. Still the availability of uClinux
> 2.6.11 for NIOS2 is a big BIG +point for Altera!
>
> Antti Lukats
>
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