Re: [cobalt-developers] 2.2.14 kernel

[Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis wrote:
> 
> No offense, but you'd think that a public company such as yourselves would
> have people dedicated to such projects.

Well, actually, we do have people dedicated to doing kernel/lowlevel
work - I am one of them.  But bringing Mips to 2.2 platform is not
currently planned, so the effort hasn't been spearheaded in any
meaningful sense.  This is completely in line with how any young public
company would act.  Engineering hours are precious, and we have lots of
new stuff cooking.

When I say "I haven't had time" I mean literally _I_ have not had time. 
I'd like to do it, on my own, independent of official Cobalt release
procedures, I just haven't had the time.  I welcome anyone who wants to
spearhead it, and I will help in every way I can.  I know the Cobalt
mips boards pretty well, and I can provide a lot of resource.  I just
haven't had the time or energy to spearhead yet another side project -
I've got too many as it is :)

> Talk about penny-wise and pound foolish.

I'd disagree about it being foolish, is all I am really saying.

Tim

 
> At 04:30 PM 5/24/00 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> >Rickard Osser wrote:
> >
> >> > security fixes and driver updates.  I don't expect a 2.2 or 2.4 kernel
> >> > on the mips products to be supported, though I'd love to see one go out
> >> > "unofficially".
> >> >
> >> > Does that answer for you?
> >> Well, then the obvious question would be:
> >>
> >> Is there such a beast that we could help you test? :)
> >
> >Unfortunately, not currently.  I have not had the time to do the port
> >myself, and I have not heard back from various parties who were
> >attempting it on their own.  I'm willing to help however I can to make
> >it possible.

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Tim Hockin
Software Engineer / OS Engineer
Cobalt Networks
thockin@xxxxxxxxxx