On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 23:45 +0000, Fredrik Bruhn wrote: > /* > 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.
Hi Fredrik, Thanks for pointing this out. I knew it, but wasn't sure if that was commercially confidential, so didn't put it in my email. Glad we can now acknowledge publicly the support given by your company. > 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. That sounds like a bug to be fixed. None of the /opt should be hard-coded in the scripts. > 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. Another thing I knew, but wasn't sure if I could make it public. All I knew was public was the use by NASA. If I deduce correctly, this must be TechEdSat. Great work by AAC Microtec, and great for bringing it out in public. I've updated the OpenRISC Wikipedia page with this information. As to your relationship with ORSoC AB - that is clearly something for you as CEO of AAC Microtec. I am sorry you also feel you need to apply that to their suppliers (declaring my interest here). > 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. It might be a good time to do this, to settle things once and for all. Then the community can vote with its feet. > 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. Looks like it has :) > 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. Yes - Julius and Stefan have done great work. Thanks for acknowledging our work. The heavy lifting was done by my colleague, Joern Rennecke. Best wishes, Jeremy -- Tel: +44 (1590) 610184 Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 SkypeID: jeremybennett Email: [email protected] Web: www.embecosm.com _______________________________________________ OpenRISC mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc
