[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Have a merry (PetaLinux) christmas
Hi John,
Congratulations for your fatherhood and Have a PetaLinux Christmas too!
I'm glad things are going fine for your company. It's really hard (at least in
my country, Spain) do bussiness with Linux/uCLinux ;-)
If you remember, I sent you a doc about my RTLinux porting to uCLinux
microblaze. I have not had time to work on it as I'd like, so there are some
problems which have not been resolved. I hope to have a bit of spare time
these holidays. Until now I have improved my own tools for microblaze/uclinux
debug (something simliar to Linux Trace Toolkit).
I have a question about your future low latency patches, are they going to
follow the Montavista approach or are you thinking more in RTAI? this is, do
you need hard or soft real time?
I seized the email to offer my services if you need some kind of
collaboration/help, since I prefer more to work in these kind of projects
than in others which pay my bills but just nothing else ;-)
I though one month ago to take my holydays this January and to visit Australia
seizing the Linux Conference. Finally I will not have more than a week so
when I visit Australia I'd like to be 3 or 4 weeks there. Next time may be.
Thank you for your work as Microblaze uclinux guru!!!
On Thursday 21 December 2006 02:41, John Williams wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Well, it's taken too long, but here at last for your Christmas
> enjoyment, is PetaLinux v0.10, release candidate 1. Get it from
> developer.petalogix.com, along with volumes of documentation, getting
> started guides, pre-built demos, you name it. Thanks to Benny Chen and
> all the postgrads in the lab for participating in our internal beta, and
> writing most of the doco.
>
> http://developer.petalogix.com
>
> See the "What's New" page to see why we've been using it internally for
> months - basically we've taken the hassle out of developing Embedded
> Linux systems on MicroBlaze.
>
> http://developer.petalogix.com/wiki/WhatsNew
>
> In the first instance please direct feedback questions and suggestions
> to the list. I'm on holiday for a couple of weeks (in remote north west
> Tasmania - no phone or internet!), but we'll be back into in from
> mid-Jan next year. The UQ/ITEE staff and students who've participated
> in our internal beta tests will step in to help out, I'm sure.
>
> Those who've seen our experimental stuff doing auto-config on PPC will
> have no trouble guessing what's on the roadmap - lots happening next
> year. We believe that the choice and transition between targeting
> MicroBlaze or PowerPC should be trivial, and mechanical. PetaLinux will
> make that happen.
>
> More broadly - what does the future hold?
>
> When the 2.6 MicroBlaze port finally comes out, we will of course fix
> it, auto-config it and integrate it into PetaLinux. After Xilinx
> decided to pay someone else to do the work it made no sense to duplicate
> that effort (hey - I've already done one kernel port for nothing, I
> wasn't about to do another one!).
>
> In other news - my gravy train as a publically funded kernel hacker is
> over - from next year PetaLogix has to pay the bills. So, my interest
> in making FPGAs and Embedded Linux as good as it can be just got
> stronger. But, it means my ability to spend time answering FAQs on the
> list will be challenged. I'm hoping that the long term residents and
> experts here can keep up the great job of supporting the newer members
> of our community.
>
> PetaLogix has recently been looking at various Low Latency and real time
> scheduling patches for Linux, and porting them to the MicroBlaze. You
> can expect to see the results of this work early next year (after the
> customer who paid for it gets their turn!).
>
> It's been a big year - my wife and I had a baby, I had a public stoush
> with a Xilinx marketing guy (we've since made up BTW), PetaLogix kept
> getting busier and busier, and more and more people realised that FPGAs
> plus Linux make a whole lot of sense. Several PetaLogix clients went to
> market with MicroBlaze + uClinux solutions (sorry, can't say what they
> are). A bunch more we don't know about probably did too.
>
> Lots of fun to come folks, stay tuned.
>
> Merry Christmas
>
> John
>
> PS I'll be at LinuxConf.au in Sydney in January, with a bit of a talk in
> the Embedded miniconf. Please come and say "Hi" if you're around.
> ___________________________
> microblaze-uclinux mailing list
> microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Project Home Page : http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~jwilliams/mblaze-uclinux
> Mailing List Archive :
> http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~listarch/microblaze-uclinux/
--
Alejandro Lucero
Director Técnico
+34 665 68 71 68
Valencia (SPAIN)
www.os3sl.com
___________________________
microblaze-uclinux mailing list
microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Project Home Page : http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~jwilliams/mblaze-uclinux
Mailing List Archive : http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~listarch/microblaze-uclinux/