On 06/10/2011 09:41 AM, wu zhangjin wrote: > Hi, embedded folks > > "Linux has gained more and more new features in recent years but at > the same time has increased the kernel image size bit by bit. The new > features do expand the applications a lot but their increased size > also limit the application of Linux in some specific places." > > So, I have launched a new "Tiny Linux Kernel" project, which was a > 'continuator' of the forthgoer: Linux-Tiny[1]. This project was > sponsored by the "CELF Open Project 2011"[2] and its main development > will happen in the coming 4 months and of course, I hope this will be > maintained forever from now on. > > 1. Proposal > > http://elinux.org/Work_on_Tiny_Linux_Kernel > > 2. Developmenet management > > http://tinylab.org/index.php/projects/tinylinux/ > > 3. Git repository > > git://gitorious.org/tinylab/tinylinux.git > > @https://gitorious.org/tinylab/tinylinux > > The primary development effort have been put into the 2.6.35/dev/* > branches, most of the arch related parts are only for MIPS platform > currently, they will be migrated for another 3 main architectures: > ARM, PowerPC and X86. After getting enough patches of cleaning up and > fixing up, will create 2.6.35/stable/* branches and then > linux-next/dev/*, linux-next/upstream/* and at last maintain a branch > for the long-term 2.6.35 and upstream some of them to the mainline > 3.x.y. > > Most of the existing patches in the 2.6.35/dev/* branches are > experimental and some of them may even be 'ugly', they are only demos > for the ideas proposed. Welcome your comments, tests, defect reports > and even patches. Wu, Thanks very much for making this announcement. I'm very excited about this work. I had a chance this week to meet with some of my colleagues inside Sony, who are working on projects with Linux that have a RAM budget of 3 meg. This and related size work is really important for us. -- Tim P.S. For those wondering, while our RAM budget is only 3M, we have 8M of NOR flash, and we are using both kernel and application XIP. The system has a full network and bluetooth stack, sensor monitoring software, and a web browser. ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment ============================= -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
