Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268043AbUJLW5l (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:57:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268045AbUJLW5k (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:57:40 -0400 Received: from smtp.Lynuxworks.com ([207.21.185.24]:26128 "EHLO smtp.lynuxworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268043AbUJLW5g (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:57:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:57:06 -0700 To: Sven Dietrich Cc: "Bill Huey (hui)" , Thomas Gleixner , dwalker@mvista.com, Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , amakarov@ru.mvista.com, ext-rt-dev@mvista.com, LKML Subject: Re: [Ext-rt-dev] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 2.6 Real Time Kernel Message-ID: <20041012225706.GC30966@nietzsche.lynx.com> References: <20041012211201.GA28590@nietzsche.lynx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Bill Huey (hui) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3388 Lines: 84 On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:41:02PM -0700, Sven Dietrich wrote: > > I emailed the mmlinux project about 2 months ago, > telling you that we were doing this. I don't remember getting an email from you. I get tons of email at times and I don't know if I had lost it or not. I'm sorry if I didn't respond to you, but being in the context of commerical development has a certain kind of conflict with open source culture and balancing them with competitors is tenuous and tense. I'm about as die hard open source as it gets and it's a difficult balance if one thinks of this problem in with these constraints. > There was no response. > > I am sorry that the early stage of our development upsets you. Well, it kind of forced a number of things to happen that is premature from multipule folks, namely me (Ingo can speak for himself). I didn't want to release these patches until I had solved a number of really critical problems, since it would have made the release rather useless. But since this is in a commerical context we have to save face by at least putting our cards on the table and establishing a sort of role in this community. That commericial development attitude the reason why I haven't been permitted to talk about this stuff openly, only sort of on the side in various preemption discussions. > It was intended to promote discussion, and that seems to be working. Yeah, for me a bit of freak out Saturday that is still kind of happening since this has been a personal project of mine for a long time. :) I interpreted it as a visibility move on your company's part, which I hate to say is a bit unnerving to know that another group was doing the same work. TimeSys's Scott Wood and friends are doing something like this as well. I'm only being fair by mentioning them. :) BTW, I'm using their irq-thread patches with modifications. I intuited that they were doing an incremental model, which, since this problem space is a bit more known, is no longer a clearly viable track for them, assuming they are going this route, because of all of the recent work. There's going to be tons of overlap here and I suspect that Ingo is going to kick all of our respective commerical butts. :) > We are aware of the issues you describe, and are making > every effort to raise awareness of these problems. > It is difficult to solve them for a team of 1 or N, > in a maintainable fashion, as it requires some level > of awareness by the maintainers that we are looking > at it from that angle. > Thanks for the insights, we look forward to seeing your > implementation added to the smorgasbord ;) Well, uh, at least you're single kernel image folks like us and not flaming us/me yet for corrupting the sancity of Linux. Oh man, I feel a flame war coming. This is such touchy material. What's Monta Vista's attitude toward preemption development ? open or closed ? I know this is a charged question, but this has to be asked. :) This commerical thing is going to be weird. I wish I was an angry hippie instead of having a job at certain moments. :) But the bay area is pretty damn cool, so... that makes up for it. :) bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/