Re: [microblaze-uclinux] 1000 posts!

[jipi <kiampeng.wee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

any info on whether memec's spartan2e-lc has a port of 
microblaze-uclinux on it?

jipi

John Williams wrote:

> 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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