Re: Hello

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com>]

[ full ecos maintainers CC'd ]

Bill Diehls wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> We exchanged a few emails earlier this year about eCos for the Game Boy
> Advance.  About a month ago, we took your suggestions and re-ported eCos 2.0
> to the Game Boy.  It went very smoothly and we are happy to announce that we
> have a very clean eCos and RedBoot port working and available via anonymous
> cvs. (www.charmedlabs.com/ecosmain.htm)

Cool!

 > Many of our customers have provided
> very enthusiastic and positive feedback (until we released this port, there
> was no OS available for the Game Boy Advance.)
> 
> I'm sorry to mail you directly, but we can't seem to receive any information
> from Redhat about how to incorporate this port into eCos.

Red Hat aren't quite as interested/able to pursue eCos things as they used 
to be.

 >  We submitted the
> copyright assignment many weeks ago and we have tried to follow-up on the
> phone, but this has proven very difficult.  It seems that mail sent to the
> ecos-maintainers list bounces back.

The correct maintainers address has changed to be as CC'd with this mail. 
I don't know who, if anyone, listens to the old address, but I guess it's 
gone then from what you say.

> We are interested in having our port mentioned on the contributions page

That's the right answer :-). I'm putting a link there now. Have a look 
when it's done and check it's alright by you.

> and
> eventually incorporating our changes/additions into the main cvs tree.

And indeed the assignment is the important thing. So far, we've still been 
getting people to assign copyright to Red Hat before applying them, at 
least for now. Are you saying that you've done that (as described as 
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/assign.html ) but they've not replied? 
That's not good if so.

> We also would like to provide Xports to anyone at Redhat who is interested
> (free of charge, of course.)

Well, since Red Hat don't really do eCos stuff any more, I'm not sure if 
they'd be interested. eCosCentric would be, but none of us here have a GBA 
as far as I know :-). ( eCosCentric consists of the old eCos team from Red 
Hat before Red Hat dropped eCos ).

> If you could forward this to the appropriate party, we would very much
> appreciate it -- again, I'm very sorry for bothering you with this.

Never a problem.

> PS. I wanted to mention that we have a very impressive mobile robot demo
> that uses eCos and Bluetooth running on the Game Boy.  We plan to exhibit at
> the Embedded Systems Conference this November in Boston, MA.  We would be
> interested in exhibiting as a Redhat partner.

In the interests of openness, I can suggest you talk to Clark Williams 
<williams@redhat.com>, but they may not be interested in doing anything 
eCos-related any more :-|.

Jifl
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