On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Joel Sherrill <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I am from the RTEMS Project (rtems.org) and we are in GSoC for the eighth > time. We have a student who would like to port RTEMS to OpenRISC. We would > really like to have at least one person from your community to co-mentor him. > > At one point, there was a port of RTEMS to an OpenRISC CPU but I don't recall > if it was the 1k or 2k. It is still somewhere in our repo if it is a useful > reference. I recall the GNU tools bitrotted and we dropped the port. Your > community seems more vibrant now and there is some interest from our users in > the space domain in OpenRISC, so the time seems right. > > FWIW I found you from your binutils post. If you all were not merging the > tools port, our community would have been more leery of an RTEMS port. > > Hopefully you have one or more people interested in doing this. > > If you have developers in the Munich area, I am teaching a class there at the > end of the month. Perhaps a beer is possible. > > --joel sherrill > RTEMS
Hi Joel, I hope you don't mind me forwarding this mail to the OpenRISC mailing lists to reach a larger audience. First of all, I'm very happy to hear this. RTOS ports for OpenRISC is one of our key interest areas. RTEMS is especially welcome as we also see increased interest from space companies, and from what I understand, RTEMS is quite common in that domain. We had an OpenRISC running Linux up in space ~2 years ago, but we want to see more :) It's also nice to see that the increase in developers, users and code hasn't gone unnoticed. As you say, it is a much more vibrant community now, and OpenRISC support in software is getting more common. I definitely think that we will be able to find a GSoC mentor or two for the project. We sent in a GSoC application ourselves, but weren't chosen, so we have talked a bit about mentoring lately. We even have a few germans among our developers, but I'm not sure exactly where they reside. You are also welcome to join us at #openrisc on irc.freenode.net where you can find most of the active developers Cheers, Olof _______________________________________________ OpenRISC mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc
