[microblaze-uclinux] 1000 posts!

[John Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

According to my very rough accounting, the microblaze-uclinux list has 
just passed its 1000th post.  In honour of this momentous occasion, I 
offer a glimpse at the weekly traffic on the list since it was announced 
on the auspicious date of April 1st, 2003:

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~jwilliams/mblaze-uclinux/Mailing_List/traffic.html

The list now has around 150 subscribers, traffic to the website is 
around 2000 served pages per week - and googling for "microblaze" lists 
us second, after the official Xilinx page!

I think recent discussions indicate that the real fun is only just 
beginning - exploring the potential of this amazing operating system on 
top of such a flexible hardware platform.

Some milestones on the rocky road towards respectability include:

February, March 03 - Early work on the low level kernel internals

3rd April 03  - The first microblaze files go into the uClinux CVS!

8th April 03  - Announcement of first successful mounting of the ROMFS

14th April 03 - The Linux binaries for the microblaze toolchain are 
available

14th May 03   - elf2flt/binfmt_flt application binary support is announced

6th June 03   - mbvanilla outgrows the 1MB SRAM, and is upgraded to use 
a whopping 32MB of DDR on the Insight / Virtex2 boards

23 July 03    - my web admins fix a configuration error that prevented 
google from crawling the page.  Web traffic starts to climb dramatically.

4 August 03   - first successful boot all the way to an interactive 
shell (and initial XMBserial UART driver work)

23 August 03  - the demo package is released, and is downloaded at least 
200 times in the first couple of weeks.

1 October 03  - announcement of initial TCP/IP support and port of the 
Xilinx EMAC driver

9 October 03  - the mbvanilla_net platform is released

11 November 03 - Atmark announce Suzaku, the first commercial microblaze 
uClinux board

December 03   - User contributed patches start coming in - V2Pro board 
support, drivers, kernel patches and more.

2004 has seen the squashing of some lingering and nasty bugs, kernel 
cleanup contributions (thanks Yashi!), and overall stability and 
useability improvements.  Stick around, there's lots more to come!

Cheers,

John
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