Technology Watch List - Revision history

Tim Bird at 22:14, 21 April 2011

2011-04-21T22:14:42Z

Tim Bird: Add pramfs information

2009-06-15T18:17:18Z

Add pramfs information

Tim Bird: /* File Systems */ update squashfs info

2009-03-06T19:46:20Z

‎File Systems: update squashfs info

Kaa-ching: update RT topics

2008-11-27T06:33:01Z

update RT topics

Tim Bird: /* File Systems */ update flash fs information

2008-11-14T18:38:21Z

‎File Systems: update flash fs information

WillNewton: /* Middleware */

2008-11-14T16:11:01Z

‎Middleware

Matthias Kaehlcke: /* File Systems */

2008-11-11T10:47:10Z

‎File Systems

Matthias Kaehlcke: /* Tracing and instrumentation */

2008-11-11T10:41:36Z

‎Tracing and instrumentation

Matthias Kaehlcke: /* File Systems */

2008-11-11T10:40:46Z

‎File Systems

FransMeulenbroeks: /* File Systems */ updated axfs section

2008-11-10T15:39:00Z

‎File Systems: updated axfs section

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		+	See also: [[Embedded linux status]]

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 * [http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs_whitepaper.pdf white paper]
 * [http://lwn.net/Articles/276025/ LWN.net article]
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 !Notes
 |-
-|[[Squash Fs]]                                       ||Latest release is 3.4, released Aug 26, 2008 (See [http://www.nabble.com/-ANN--Squashfs-3.4-released-td19176135.html Squashfs 3.4 released]. Most recent mainline mainline submission was in October 2008 || Another mainline attempt is in progress  || Phillip is working on another mainline attempt, with CELF funding.  Sony is trying to help with the effort.
+|[[Squash Fs]]                                       ||Mainlined in January 2009 (for 2.6.29) See http://lwn.net/Articles/314326/.  || As of Feb, 2009, Phillip was working on some user-space tools issues, to support the new filesystem format (version 4.0)  || Good job Phillip!
 |-
 |[[AXFS]]                                       ||Not mainlined.       ||Some required (predecessor) bits were mainlined in March, 2008, A version was submitted to LKML in August 2008

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 !Notes
 |-
-|KTimers                                        ||mainlined, but needs lots of porting to embedded architectures||??
+|KTimers                                        ||mainlined, but needs lots of porting to embedded architectures|| 2.6.23 / 2.6.24
 |Adding clock driver support for various architectures is an ongoing process
 |-
-|RT-preempt                                     ||some parts mainlined (last part was high res. timers in 2.6.21) ||2.6.21? || Next target is to integrate threaded interrupts in 2.6.23?? Threaded interrupt still not in 2.6.25
+|RT-preempt                                     ||some parts mainlined  || current RT patches are still against 2.6.26  || Next target is to integrate threaded interrupts in 2.6.29 - as discussed on LinuxPlumbers conference Oregon 2008
 |-
 |Xenomai                                         ||external project || 2.6.25 - stable release, newer in development||Xenomai is a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel, in order to provide a pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time support to user-space applications, seamlessly integrated into the GNU/Linux environment. Ready to deploy.

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 !Notes
 |-
-|[[Squash Fs]]                                       ||Latest release is 3.4, released Aug 26, 2008 (See [http://www.nabble.com/-ANN--Squashfs-3.4-released-td19176135.html Squashfs 3.4 released]. Not mainlined. ||CELF is attempting to fund another mainline attempt.  || Phillip is working on another mainline attempt.  Sony is trying to help with the effort.
+|[[Squash Fs]]                                       ||Latest release is 3.4, released Aug 26, 2008 (See [http://www.nabble.com/-ANN--Squashfs-3.4-released-td19176135.html Squashfs 3.4 released]. Most recent mainline mainline submission was in October 2008 || Another mainline attempt is in progress  || Phillip is working on another mainline attempt, with CELF funding.  Sony is trying to help with the effort.
 |-
-|[[AXFS]]                                       ||Not mainlined.       ||Some required (predecessor) bits were mainlined in March, 2008, A version was submitted to LKML in august 2008
+|[[AXFS]]                                       ||Not mainlined.       ||Some required (predecessor) bits were mainlined in March, 2008, A version was submitted to LKML in August 2008
 |Flash filesystem that allows for tuning the amount of [[Application XIP|XIP]]
 * See [http://www.celinux.org/elc08_presentations/AXFS_at_ELC_2008.ppt AXFS: Architecture and Results] - Jared Hulbert's presentation for ELC 2008
 |-
-|LogFS           ||Not mainlined.   || Last patches were published in March, 2008?
+|LogFS           ||Not mainlined.   || Last mainline attempt was May, 2008.
+|
 * Home page is at: http://logfs.org/logfs/
 * Jörn Engel is working on a re-write to address several major issues.
-* CELF hired Jörn Engel in Dec, 2007 to complete and mainline a first release of logfs.
+* CELF is funding this work.
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 |UBIFS                                          ||mainlined in 2.6.27       ||

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-|libdlna ||  Developer has added support for all profiles except MPEG-4 and WMV (  http://hg.geexbox.org/libdlna/ ) ||29 Aug, 07 || Short term goal is to provide DLNA support to Ushare media server, long term goal is to provide generic DLNA reference library [[BR]] References: http://libdlna.geexbox.org/
+|libdlna ||  Developer has added support for all profiles except MPEG-4 and WMV (  http://hg.geexbox.org/libdlna/ ) ||29 Aug, 07 || Short term goal is to provide DLNA support to Ushare media server, long term goal is to provide generic DLNA reference library <br/> References: http://libdlna.geexbox.org/
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 [[Category:Community]]

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 |Nicholas McGuire was taking over maintainership from Tim Bird, with funding from CELF.  Haven't heard much recently (as of June 2008)
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-|ftrace ||not mainlined||version 16 of the patches was submitted by to LKML by Ingo Molnar in June, 2008
+|ftrace ||mainlined in 2.6.27||
 |This was formerly the latency-trace features from the RT-preempt patch set, refactored for general use
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 * CELF hired Jörn Engel in Dec, 2007 to complete and mainline a first release of logfs.
 |-
-|UBIFS                                          ||not mainlined.       ||Last submitted to mainlined in May 2008
+|UBIFS                                          ||mainlined in 2.6.27       ||
+|
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