LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 2, 2009

VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds

LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 25, 2009

Weekly edition	Kernel	Security	Distributions	Search
Archives	Calendar	Subscribe	Write for LWN	LWN.net FAQ

CE Linux Forum Publishes Baseline Source Tree

[Posted November 24, 2003 by ris]

The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) has announced the release of its baseline Linux source code, now available for download and review.

(Log in to post comments)

Mainline kernel

Posted Nov 24, 2003 21:06 UTC (Mon) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

Will they be trying to merge these improvements into the mainline kernel
and take improvements from it and merge it into this tree? If not I
could see the mainline kernel quickly diverging from this release...

Mainline kernel

Posted Nov 24, 2003 21:29 UTC (Mon) by pblanco (guest, #16087) [Link]

I wasn't able to get to the tree via their webpage. Has anyone been able to access it yet?

Re: Mainline kernel

Posted Nov 25, 2003 17:49 UTC (Tue) by amimjf (guest, #506) [Link]

it looks like its just 2.4.20 with MontaVista's patches applied.

having said that the diff to 2.4.20 is 58mb, but thats mostly because they
removed most of arch/ and added a few extra bits.

they have added other peoples patches like Robort Love's preempt kernel
patch, Ingo Molnar's (O)1 sched and some other 2.5 bits.

not all that excting.

Source Tree...where?

Posted Nov 24, 2003 22:47 UTC (Mon) by bryam (guest, #6857) [Link]

Yes...where are the source Luke?

CE Linux Forum Publishes Baseline Source Tree

Posted Nov 25, 2003 16:44 UTC (Tue) by miannac (subscriber, #11411) [Link]

I understand the importance of press releases, but this one sounds like a bit ... empty!
Did you try to access to the provided URL? It is saying that the tree server will be available soon.

I think that LWN should better check those press release communication: the Net is full of empty press releases... I'm not happy to get them on a paid service.

Marco

CE Linux Forum Publishes Baseline Source Tree

Posted Nov 25, 2003 16:51 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

It is pretty common that somebody issues a PR, but hasn't quite managed to get the code into the promised location yet. The code generally does show up; people don't send out those releases for nothing. So if the subject looks interesting, we go ahead and post it. In this case, they seem to be having more than the usual amount of trouble getting their act together. I do assume it will happen at some point, though.

The code is up now

Posted Nov 25, 2003 17:57 UTC (Tue) by tbird20d (subscriber, #1901) [Link]

Sorry for the delay. This is one of the first press releases of the
forum, and our processes were not, uhmmm.. well-coordinated.

The source and information about the tree is available at:
http://tree.celinuxforum.org/

To answer one of the other posts, we wish to NOT diverge (fork) and
will submit patches against kernel.org trees as the technologies are
refined and ratified by the forum.

Some of the technologies in the tree are backports (to 2.4.20) of
things already in 2.6 - like kernel preemption, the O(1) scheduler,
and a form of work queues. Some things are available separately,
but are not part of kernel.org yet (like high-resolution POSIX timers
and Dynamic Power Management). Other things are new, like a ram file
system that is robust against kernel failures, some improvements
in bootup time, and fixes to some existing-but-apparently-broken
features, like IDE "noprobe".

We'll be publishing more information about the various technologies
in this tree by the end of the year.

Tim Bird
Architecture Group Co-Chair
CE Linux Forum

Two questions

Posted Nov 26, 2003 7:51 UTC (Wed) by bryam (guest, #6857) [Link]

1 - Is Hewlett Packard member of the CE Linux Forum?

and

2 - Are you thinking to cooperate with the Open Source Development Lab (www.osdl.org) like one workgroup or similar way?

Thanks,

-Adriano