Re: [cobalt-developers] 2.2.14 kernel

[Mat Kovach <mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:02:24AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
: 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 :)

Hmmm.....

I know all too much about having too many side projects, and work projects,
and "oh know, need to pay the bills" projects.

I have been working (be it slowly and not often enough) on this.  Been running
into quite a few problems.  Many of which have been taken care of by the
folks working on the linux-mips port.

Since things have settled down for me considerably since a recent and 
extented move I'm ready, willing and able to spearhead an unofficial 
2.2/2.4 cobalt mips release (already having a raq provided by Cobalt).

I'll have some source etc available this weekend.  If anybody is interested
in helping out and contributing please e-mail me off the list at

mkovach@xxxxxxxxx

With a little work specific to the Cobalt board setup, it should take that
long to get something out.

With that said, here is my fear:

There is a lot in userland that will break for the 2.0 -> 2.2 upgrade.  So
not only will a kernel have to be made available, but and actual working
cobalt distribution.  Is cobalt able to spare some of those resources
to produce something like that?

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Mat Kovach                                      mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cleveland Linux User Group                       http://cleveland.lug.net