On 12/20/2016 01:36 PM, Julien Stephan wrote: > I'm porting Xenomai on the MPPA processor of Kalray. The problem is that > their Linux port is quite new and is not yet publicly available ...
This company presented an ongoing effort to port Linux to their MPPA processor back in October 2013. This hardly qualifies as a "new" effort: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/Rybczynska_Going_Linux_on_Massive_Multicore.pdf Such Linux code not being publicly available after three years may be interpreted as an obvious unwillingness to ever disclose it. Therefore, the whole point of any technical discussion about your project on this public list would be about asking people to help your company delivering a development task to a customer, for your company's and its customer's exclusive advantage, but strictly no upside for the Xenomai user base. As a matter of fact, nothing that could be discussed there regarding your project would be beneficial for the Xenomai users and contributors (Linux likewise), since none of them may ever have access to the resulting work, or learn from it for their own present or future projects. What might be the incentive for these people to help you with such port then, why would they care? I do understand that, as an engineer, you merely inherited the situation and did not create it, taking the flak for those who did. That is unfortunate, and I want to make clear that this is nothing personal. However, despite Xmas time approaching, I don't believe in Santa: such situation can't bring anything useful to the Xenomai project, but only chasing wild gooses about a secretive processor running undisclosed code. I'd be glad to be proven wrong though, but until this is demonstrated, I'll stay away from this discussion. -- Philippe. _______________________________________________ Xenomai mailing list [email protected] https://xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai
