Dear Marten Lootsma, In message <1298156382.3304.13.camel@lootsma-desktop> you wrote: > > Do I understand correct that: Xenomai support for iMX35 depends fully on > the developers of Freescale to put their patches into the mainline > kernel?
No, the community does not depend on Freescale. If we did, we would not be where we are today. You need to understand that Freescales primary (and sometimes only) purpose is to sell their chips. Sometimes they do have to provide a certain level of enablement services, but they surely don;t get paid for providing best in class community support. The community is driven by some people who work on their own time for free, but more often by people or companies that get paid for such services by their respective customers. For example, that's how I've been earning my bread (and butter) for the past 12 years. Of course you can ask Freescale to provide better mainline integration of their code, and most likely they will even listen, but I would not hold my breath to actually see any quick improvements. If you need certain features in mainline Linux quickly (or, say, Xenomai support for a specific kernel version and/or for a specific piece of hardware), you can either throw in your own ressources, or you can hire some experts. There are a number of companies who provide exactly this type of services. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] The inappropriate cannot be beautiful. - Frank Lloyd Wright _The Future of Architecture_ (1953) _______________________________________________ Xenomai-help mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-help
