/* It is perhaps worth noting that many of the major contributors to this meeting are not just hobbyists, but are or have been paid professional contributors. My company, Embecosm, was paid to develop the GCC 4.5 tool chain to production standard, Olof works for ORSoC AB, Julius used to work for ORSoC AB, Jonas was paid to develop Linux for OpenRISC. */
Jeremy, You may want to add that AAC Microtec has been the company behind most of the funding taking GCC and linux forward on the openrisc architecture lately. yes, Jonas has been partially funded externally but he, as well as yourself and others should be honored for putting in way more time that what you have been paid for. And we have been very clear based that all work should be dedicated openly and without commercial interest from any one single business or entity. Some may remember heated discussions on this throughout the past year. Hence our patches are publicized at openrisc.net git repository for everyone's benefit. We've patched newlib and Linux quite significantly lately together with Jonas. Not to forget all work on U-boot together with Stefan Kristiansson. The one on opencores has major flaws in the interrupt handler for one. Another is the static directory problem. Try moving from /opt/..... to ~/toolchain as an example and the -mboard=..... will stop working. We have also been very clear that various previous events has taken us to the decision to not use OrSoc AB or any of its supplier for any future work relating to openrisc or any forks thereof. It is also interesting to see the remarks to NASA and space use since our company is leading this effort. FYI, the first NASA openrisc architecture based Linux computer launch will occur in June this year to the International Space Station with hardware provided, built, and tested by AAC Microtec and AAC Microtec North America. Maybe this is a good time to fork out LibreRISC to solve Ruben's targeted comments and a long list of other things at the same time. I fully support Rubens comments that the work should be truly open and supported by many, but not controlled by a single. My last email got trapped by opencores.org and I received an email from Marcus Erlandsson that if I would try again, it should work. I would also like to say that Julius Baxter and Stefan Kristiansson has been outstanding in maturing the hardware as well as Jeremy getting C++ support amongst other things in place. A few other announcements that can be made at this is time are the following, A set of different open/libre/risc ASIC's will likely come off the 90 nm ASIC production line early 2013 and AAC is committed to provide funding to add position independent code and dynamic linking to the toolchain during 2012. If anyone is already now close to finishing this we would be happy to offer a development monetary award for this. -Fredrik -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Bennett Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 14:27 To: [email protected]; openrisc mailing list Subject: Re: [OpenRISC] Subtly forcing the move to OpenCores.org _______________________________________________ OpenRISC mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc
