Date
1 - 10 of 10
[ANNOUNCE] CELF open project proposal
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Tim Bird <tim.bird@...>
Hey embedded Linux developers...
Are you itching to see some feature developed for embedded Linux? Would you like to suggest that CELF spend their money on some specific project? Would you like CELF to sponsor a project you are working on? Well, now is your chance! This is the official announcement of a new plan by CELF, called the "Open Project Proposal". The CELF Open Project Proposal is a process whereby members of the public submit to the CE Linux Forum ideas and proposals for projects that they think should be worked on to enhance embedded Linux. The plan is to solicit ideas for our 2010 contract work projects. Areas of work can include the Linux kernel, graphics systems, toolchain work, or anything else that will help enhance Linux for use in embedded systems. Each year, CELF spends money on contract work to improve Linux for use in embedded systems. Some of the projects we have sponsored in the past include Linux-tiny, DirectFB enhancements, smem, and Squashfs mainlining. Usually, our process involves querying forum members about their desires and building a project list from that. This year, we are opening up the process and asking for your ideas and proposals as well. For details, see: http://elinux.org/CELF_Open_Project_Proposal_2010 Proposal are welcome immediately... Thanks, -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= |
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Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...>
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 18:47, Tim Bird wrote:
The CELF Open Project Proposal is a process whereby membersmaybe i missed it, but there doesnt seem to be too much emphasis on working with the respective projects and getting merged. that seems like one of the most important aspects of doing any enhancement work as anything not merged means it'll quickly be left behind and largely go to waste. -mike |
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Tim Bird <tim.bird@...>
Mike Frysinger wrote:
maybe i missed it, but there doesnt seem to be too much emphasis onI agree. Many of our contracts have a financial incentive built in to get "mainlined". Some of our projects' sole objective is to mainline already existing stuff (like Linux-tiny and SquashFS). If anyone has a feature that already exists, but that they think should be merged with the relevant upstream project, that's a good candidate for a proposal. One obvious project, which I'm waiting to see if someone else submits, is to pay someone to mainline some of the outstanding Android patches into the Linux kernel. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= |
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Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...>
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 18:47, Tim Birdwrote:
Hey embedded Linux developers...i know your e-mail intro states "embedded Linux" as does the wiki, but i'm gonna take a stab anyways. does this apply to Linux only and not open source boot loaders (like U-Boot) ? -mike |
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Tim Bird <tim.bird@...>
Mike Frysinger wrote:
i know your e-mail intro states "embedded Linux" as does the wiki, butIt applies to anything in the "embedded Linux" ecosystem. This would very much include open source boot loaders like U-Boot. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= |
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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...>
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 13:46 -0800, Tim Bird wrote:
It applies to anything in the "embedded Linux" ecosystem. ThisAnd coreboot. The world needs more coreboot. -- dwmw2 |
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Tim Bird <tim.bird@...>
David Woodhouse wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 13:46 -0800, Tim Bird wrote:If coreboot were on ARM, it would be more interesting.It applies to anything in the "embedded Linux" ecosystem. ThisAnd coreboot. That would make an interesting proposal, I suppose. :-) -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= |
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Aras Vaichas <arasv@...>
2009/12/3 Tim Bird <tim.bird@...>
I've got a list of "nice to haves" Any boot time speed up work. Support for 2nd stage booting from NAND with newer filesystems such as UBIFS. i.e. simplified UBI/UBIFS read/write/format code in a small footprint. TFTP server in a boot loader (U-boot or other). i.e. allows you to push a firmware upgrade image to a device. I do know of a few of these but they are not open sourced. Just my 2 cents. Aras |
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Bill Traynor <wmat@...>
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 18:47, Tim Bird <tim.bird@...> wrote:
<snip> How about adding nommu support to EGLIBC. Just throwing this out as food for thought. I'll write up an actual proposal eventually.
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Robert Schwebel
Hi David,
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:59:50PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 13:46 -0800, Tim Bird wrote:Did you have a look at u-boot-v2 (which is just in the process of beingIt applies to anything in the "embedded Linux" ecosystem. ThisAnd coreboot. renamed to barebox)? We have it running on all kind of architectures (even x86 is working here recently, but the patches are not ready for mainline yet), and it feels much more linuxish than coreboot. http://www.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/ELCEurope2009Presentations?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Hauer-U_BootV2.pdf Robert -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | |
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