From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12631 invoked by alias); 16 Mar 2011 18:35:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 12545 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Mar 2011 18:35:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-wy0-f177.google.com (HELO mail-wy0-f177.google.com) (74.125.82.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:35:18 +0000 Received: by wyb28 with SMTP id 28so2035372wyb.36 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:35:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.123.69 with SMTP id u47mr338572weh.16.1300300515791; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.160.211 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:35:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4D80FEDE.4020106@dallaway.org.uk> References: <4D809BF2.6040205@dallaway.org.uk> <4D80EE4C.3090703@mailbox.tu-dresden.de> <4D80FEDE.4020106@dallaway.org.uk> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: eCos on AT91SAM9 - call to action From: Michael Bergandi To: John Dallaway Cc: uni@martinlaabs.de, ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-devel-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-devel-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 > Martin Laabs wrote: > >> my port based on the one of Evgeniy Dushitov at the very beginning. >> However - after some weeks I discovered that it was very hard to support >> more CPUs out of the AT91SAM9 family with that code-base. >> So I started from beginning, reusing only some code snipplet from >> Evgeniy. I made the decision to split the port into three packages. > > [ snip ] > > It sounds like your input will be valuable. Please do track the > discussion in bug 1000819 and comment where appropriate. To be clear, I > still think it makes sense that we focus on Evgeniy's contribution and > modify it where necessary during the review. > > John Dallaway > eCos maintainer > http://www.dallaway.org.uk/john > I hope that a serious look at what Martin has to offer will be considered before deciding on which contribution is used as a base. IMHO, simply because an existing contribution is currently being used in the community, that should not preclude a new contribution for replacing it, if it is in fact a 'better' contribution. I haven't seen or worked with either code base, so I have no vested interest either way. -- Mike