linux-kernel - Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

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Message-ID: <43e72e890709191147h63d4d780l7091e7baefc8345d@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:47:31 -0400
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
To:	"Tim Bird" <tim.bird@...sony.com>
Cc:	"linux kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-tiny <Linux-tiny@...enic.com>,
	"CE Linux Developers List" <celinux-dev@...e.celinuxforum.org>,
	"Michael Opdenacker" <michael@...e-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

On 9/19/07, Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com> wrote:
> Recently, the CE Linux forum has been working to revive the
> Linux-tiny project.  At OLS, I asked for interested parties
> to volunteer to become the new maintainer for the Linux-tiny patchset.
>
> A few candidates came forward, but eventually Michael Opdenacker
> was selected as the new primary maintainer.  A few other
> people, including John Cooper of Wind River and myself
> are working to support this effort.
>
> Recently, many of the Linux-tiny patches have been brought up-to-date
> and are now available for use with a 2.6.22 kernel.  The intent
> is to test these, and begin mainlining the most effective sub-patches,
> in the next few months.
>
> Some automated testing has already been set up, with some
> preliminary results published at a CELF conference in Japan.
> (See the linux-tiny page below for a link to the presentation.)
> Hopefully, results publishing will also be automated soon.
>
> We encourage anyone with interest in this project to get involved.
> If you have ideas how to reduce the static or dynamic memory footprint
> of Linux, or, even better, patches for this, please let us know about
> them.
>
> Please see http://elinux.org/Linux_Tiny
>
> A related document: http://elinux.org/Kernel_Size_Tuning_Guide
> is undergoing an update this week.

Will there be a separate git for testing? Is the idea to still keep
moving patches upstream?

  Luis
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