Re: CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

2009-12-17 Thread Tim Bird
Matt Hsu wrote: > Summary: Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader. I've created a page for this at: http://elinux.org/CELF_Project_Proposal/Refactor_the_Qi_lightweight_bootloader = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation

Re: CELF Project Proposal: Create a watchdog framework for the Linux kernel

2009-12-17 Thread Tim Bird
Wolfram Sang wrote: > Summary: Create a watchdog framework for the Linux kernel Interesting. I've created a page for this proposal at: http://elinux.org/CELF_Project_Proposal/Create_a_watchdog_framework_for_the_Linux_kernel -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair

CELF Project Proposal: Create a watchdog framework for the Linux kernel

2009-12-17 Thread Wolfram Sang
Proposer: Wolfram Sang Summary: Create a watchdog framework for the Linux kernel Description: The watchdog API of the Linux kernel is documented and used for years. Yet, there is no abstraction for its common functionality (open, write, ioctl, close), so every watchdog driver has to implement tho

Re: Project Proposal: add sleeping spinlocks to mainline kernel

2009-12-17 Thread Tim Bird
Linus Walleij wrote: > 2009/12/16 Tim Bird : > >> Summary: add sleeping spinlocks to the mainline kernel > > If realtime performance overall is a big deal for CELF I would suggest > adding "Kill-the-BKL" to the suggested projects. There are still some > RTOS people using the BKL as an argument to

Re: Project Proposal: add sleeping spinlocks to mainline kernel

2009-12-17 Thread Linus Walleij
2009/12/16 Tim Bird : > Summary: add sleeping spinlocks to the mainline kernel If realtime performance overall is a big deal for CELF I would suggest adding "Kill-the-BKL" to the suggested projects. There are still some RTOS people using the BKL as an argument to flak the Linux kernel, c.f. http:

Re: CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

2009-12-17 Thread Andy Green
On 12/17/09 08:31, Somebody in the thread at some point said: Hi - Just read about this a little late :-) I wrote the bulk of Qi while at Openmoko. Qi currently supports samsung s3c24xx series, s3c6410, TI omap3530. The I also ported it to iMX31. - Generalize components which could be use

CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

2009-12-17 Thread Matt Hsu
Summary: Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader. Proposer: Matt Hsu Description: Qi (named by Alan Cox on Openmoko kernel list) is a minima