Re: boot loader

Re: boot loader

[John Dallaway]

Hi David

Choi, David wrote:

> Under eCos, I make a network device driver for ks8851 MLL from Micrel
> Inc. 
> 
> I want to put my driver in eCos source tree.
> 
> Could you tell me the procedure to put my driver in eCos so that
> everybody can use it?

Firstly, thank you for your interest in contributing to the eCos project.

The basic procedure for contributing code is described at:

  http://ecos.sourceware.org/contrib.html

Note that all contributions are subject to review and that everyone who
has contributed to the device driver will need to assign copyright to
the Free Software Foundation.

I recommend that you start the process of copyright assignment as soon
as possible as it can take some time to complete. Ref:

  http://ecos.sourceware.org/assign.html

When your driver is ready for review, please create a new Bugzilla
report at http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org and attach your source code to
the Bugzilla report.

John Dallaway
eCos maintainer

submit process

[Choi, David]

Hello John,

Based on your suggestion, I filled [the assignment request form] and
sent it to assign@gnu.org last week.

But I have not received any feedback until today. I want to check the
status.
What should I do?

Is it possible to submit my driver before finishing [process of
copyright assignment]?
 
Thank you in advance for your reply.

Regards,
David J. Choi


-----Original Message-----
From: John Dallaway [mailto:john@dallaway.org.uk] 
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 9:02 AM
To: Choi, David
Cc: Li, Charles; eCos Maintainers
Subject: Re: boot loader

Hi David

Choi, David wrote:

> Under eCos, I make a network device driver for ks8851 MLL from Micrel
> Inc. 
> 
> I want to put my driver in eCos source tree.
> 
> Could you tell me the procedure to put my driver in eCos so that
> everybody can use it?

Firstly, thank you for your interest in contributing to the eCos
project.

The basic procedure for contributing code is described at:

  http://ecos.sourceware.org/contrib.html

Note that all contributions are subject to review and that everyone who
has contributed to the device driver will need to assign copyright to
the Free Software Foundation.

I recommend that you start the process of copyright assignment as soon
as possible as it can take some time to complete. Ref:

  http://ecos.sourceware.org/assign.html

When your driver is ready for review, please create a new Bugzilla
report at http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org and attach your source code to
the Bugzilla report.

John Dallaway
eCos maintainer

Re: submit process

[John Dallaway]

Hi David

Choi, David wrote:

> Based on your suggestion, I filled [the assignment request form] and
> sent it to assign@gnu.org last week.
> 
> But I have not received any feedback until today. I want to check the
> status. What should I do?

The FSF will prepare a copyright assignment document and send it to you
by the regular postal service. This can sometimes take a while. I would
not assume that the process has failed just yet.

> Is it possible to submit my driver before finishing [process of
> copyright assignment]?

Yes, feel free to submit the driver. It may be of use to other eCos
users in advance of the copyright assignment.

John Dallaway
eCos maintainer