On Thu 23 Aug 2007 09:30, Peter Poulsen pondered:
> My employer has assigned me to do some investigation into uCLinux to see if 
it is
> something that we could use in our products. We are planing to use a 
Blackfin CPU
> (which model has not been decided yet).
> 
> The software/libraries we would like to run/use include the following:
> - NTP

I assume ntp is network time? Works for me - no problems
http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=:ntp

> - libstdc++

We run all the standard C++ built in tests on the hardware, and all the 
interesting ones pass:

http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=toolchain:testing

                === g++ Summary ===
# of expected passes            11912
# of unexpected failures        2
# of unexpected successes       2
# of expected failures          66
# of unsupported tests          134

The unexpected fails are GNU extentsions to C++, which no one uses.

> - Boost

I assume this is http://www.boost.org/ ? Assuming the boost build system 
handles cross builds properly - I don't see there would be a problem. (yet 
another project that thought autotools suck, and made their own - so I will 
have to play with it to make sure).

> - OpenGL-ES

I know there have been plenty of people asking about it, and I thought people 
were shipping it - but the Blackfin/Linux teams has not done any work on it.
 
> Anyone that has experience with these? Both good and bad would be helpful.
> 
> Also we would like to buy software support for the BSP from some software
> vendor. Does any of you know any vendors? If you can comment on their
> support, that would also be greatly appreciated :)

It depends on what you mean for "support"? 

To some this means port Bootloader/kernel to hardware platform. (which is 
really a custom development role - most skilled Linux consultants can do 
this - and there are a few that hang around here - Phil @ SDCS is very 
familiar with the Blackfin and could do work like this).

To some it means provide technical guidance/architecture on porting/developing 
custom applications. Again - this is normally handed by a consultant (dur to 
NDA reasons).

To others this means determinist answers to questions (on toolchain, Boot 
Loader, kernel, libraries, standard or custom applications). If it is just 
answers to questions - the folks at blackfin.uclinux.org are pretty good at 
answering questions within a day. Sometimes a poke to your local ADI 
sales/FAE can help escalate things, but normally, it is pretty good. (std 
disclaimer - I help on this site, so my opinions might be a little jaded).

-Robin
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