Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751412Ab0DMMWF (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:22:05 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:42192 "EHLO mail-bw0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750932Ab0DMMWC (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:22:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4BC461AD.6090504@monstr.eu> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:21:01 +0200 From: Michal Simek Reply-To: monstr@monstr.eu User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090625) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au, LKML CC: John Williams , John Linn , Stefan Asserhall , Goran Bilski , "Steven J. Magnani" , Arnd Bergmann , Linus Torvalds , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar , "Edgar E. Iglesias" , Grant Likely , sam@ravnborg.org, "Steven J. Magnani" , stephenn@xilinx.com, Karen Whelan , Wendy Liang Subject: Microblaze - The fist year Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2644 Lines: 69 Dear Linux community, The MicroBlaze Linux Kernel has been in mainline for exactly one year. It is time to look back and celebrate this year. First of all I would like to thank Xilinx and PetaLogix for their committed support and everybody who has helped to improve the MicroBlaze Linux kernel namely to Andrew Morton, Arnd Bergmann, Edgar E. Iglesias, Grant Likely, Ingo Molnar, John Linn, John Williams, Linus Torvalds, Sam Ravnborg, Stephen Neuendorffer and Steve Magnani. Goran Bilski and Stefan Asserhall (from Xilinx Processing Solutions group) have provided valuable assistance too. Thank you for your work. MicroBlaze is the first soft-cpu to be merged to the mainline Linux kernel and I believe it has proved to be an effective decision to do so. With the support of Xilinx and PetaLogix we have dedicated a lot of time to improve the MicroBlaze Linux port, adding new features and stabilizing the whole kernel. There are still areas for improvement but we have set a good direction and we hope with continued support from Xilinx and PetaLogix to achieve much more in the future I would like to ask the whole community if you can point us to new features (or weak places) which should be implemented on MicroBlaze. Thank you for your continued input. Let me summarize some MicroBlaze Linux highlights over the last 12 months. MicroBlaze noMMU - added on April 13, 2009 MicroBlaze QEMU support - April, 2009 MicroBlaze MMU - added on June 12, 2009 First youtube movie with MicroBlaze QEMU by PetaLogix - October 28, 2009 Ftrace support - November 2009 Everyday testing framework - December 2009 and many others Latest code is available on PetaLogix GIT server. http://developer.petalogix.com/git/gitweb.cgi (or http://git.monstr.eu/git/gitweb.cgi) Output log from everyday testing http://www.monstr.eu/wiki/doku.php?id=log:log I also created a new facebook fan page for MicroBlaze where you can join us. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Microblaze-linux/111131818899940 As I announced on Facebook, I decided to open monstr.eu wiki which is becoming the microblaze linux wiki. You can register on http://www.monstr.eu/wiki/doku.php?id=user:user&do=register Thank you. Best regards, Michal -- Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng) w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854 Maintainer of Linux kernel 2.6 Microblaze Linux - http://www.monstr.eu/fdt/ Microblaze U-BOOT custodian -- 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/