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Mark, Since
you’ve hinted at a development/developing strategy would you please elaborate
on Xilinx’s intent with regard to uClinux for the microblaze and ppc405 along
with 2.6 support? Or be able to provide some type of time frame on when you’d
be able to announce any plans. Thanks. Bret From: owner- From an official perspective…… My job at Xilinx is to provide our customers with the 3rd
party SW and IP support that they need for their product integration of
Xilinx’s technology. To this end I have to consider not just the OS
porting itself but tools and support as well looking towards the user’s
experience with the whole product. We (Xilinx) are engaged with PetaLogix who we regard as a
Tier 1 partner for our Embedded Ecosystem. They are a real company with real
product, however young they may be, and Xilinx will continue to support them in
their growth going forward. Because the popularity of uCLinux and the amount of
associated work (and open source Linux as well) continues to grow, Xilinx has
also engaged with a mature Linux company for uCLinux and open source Linux
porting, support and tools. Because of my position at Xilinx, I can not say who
this is until the official press release. This is not to say that we no longer
have a relationship with PetaLogix – quite the contrary. PetaLogix will
be involved in these efforts. Five months ago John and I tried to build a 3 way
partnership with a company that would provide support and a commercial tool
chain to complement his OS product. This relationship would have provided
uCLinux developers a world class product followed by world class support and
world class tools. Unfortunately, this deal fell through and it has taken until
now to close with another partner. So, all this being said, it is not John’s issue that
there is not yet 2.6.11 support. If you need to question Xilinx’s uCLinux
2.6.11 support then question me because it was my decision not to fund
PetaLogix directly for the uCLinux 2.6.11 port. Best Regards, Mark Jensen ************************************************************ Mark Jensen Sr. Manager, Embedded Ecosystem Strategic Marketing Embedded Processing Div. Processing Solutions Group Xilinx,Inc. 408 879 5084 W 408 960 5800 C 408 626 6440 F ************************************************************ |