[U-Boot-Users] Congratulations, Wolfgang made it to space

[U-Boot-Users] Congratulations, Wolfgang made it to space

[Jerry Van Baren]

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8137978310.html

/Linux blasts off in U.S. tactical satellite/

"The PowerPC CPUs are running a modified version of the DENX ELDK 3.1 
Linux 2.4.25. The bootloader is U-Boot 1.1.2."

Very cool stuff.
gvb

[U-Boot-Users] Congratulations, Wolfgang made it to space

[Marc Leeman]

> "The PowerPC CPUs are running a modified version of the DENX ELDK 3.1 
> Linux 2.4.25. The bootloader is U-Boot 1.1.2."

To boldly go where no u-boot has gone before?

-- 
  greetz, marc
That's your plan? Wile E. Coyote would come up with a better plan
than that!
	Crichton - Throne for a Loss
scorpius.homelinux.org 2.6.19 #1 Tue Dec 5 16:35:02 CET 2006 GNU/Linux
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[U-Boot-Users] Congratulations, Wolfgang made it to space

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <45898061.2070205@smiths-aerospace.com> you wrote:
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8137978310.html
> 
> /Linux blasts off in U.S. tactical satellite/
> 
> "The PowerPC CPUs are running a modified version of the DENX ELDK 3.1 
> Linux 2.4.25. The bootloader is U-Boot 1.1.2."
> 
> Very cool stuff.

Yes, that's really cool indeed.

But I have to correct you're subject line: its not me who made  this,
it's  we  all  here  contributing  to  this  and  other Free Software
projects. Without such a great community neither U-Boot nor Linux nor
the ELDK would exist. I'm just a small piece in this puzzle,  and  as
some  of you know all too well I'm too often more a bottleneck than a
help.

So all I can say is: Thanks to all of you folks who contribute to all
these projects and make such things possible with Free Software.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

-- 
Software Engineering:  Embedded and Realtime Systems,  Embedded Linux
Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work  and  those  who
take  the  credit.  Try  to  be  in  the  first  group; there is less
competition there.                                    - Indira Gandhi

[U-Boot-Users] Congratulations, Wolfgang made it to space

[Lei Sun]

Wow !!
This is a exciting story for me, as I have been working on embedded
Linux for 6 years, (mostly ARM linux, just moved to PPC Linux 6 month
ago). To be honest, i am kind a feeling bored on embedded Linux. I
thouht it probably going nowhere.  I've never thought Linux could make
to the space, since I was an Aerospace enineer before and i know
VxWorks is the dominant RTOS in that area.
  Congrat. on Wolf Gang and those who put linux into space !

Merry christmas and happy new year.

lei


On 12/20/06, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> In message <45898061.2070205@smiths-aerospace.com> you wrote:
> > http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8137978310.html
> >
> > /Linux blasts off in U.S. tactical satellite/
> >
> > "The PowerPC CPUs are running a modified version of the DENX ELDK 3.1
> > Linux 2.4.25. The bootloader is U-Boot 1.1.2."
> >
> > Very cool stuff.
>
> Yes, that's really cool indeed.
>
> But I have to correct you're subject line: its not me who made  this,
> it's  we  all  here  contributing  to  this  and  other Free Software
> projects. Without such a great community neither U-Boot nor Linux nor
> the ELDK would exist. I'm just a small piece in this puzzle,  and  as
> some  of you know all too well I'm too often more a bottleneck than a
> help.
>
> So all I can say is: Thanks to all of you folks who contribute to all
> these projects and make such things possible with Free Software.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
> --
> Software Engineering:  Embedded and Realtime Systems,  Embedded Linux
> Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de
> There are two kinds of people, those who do the work  and  those  who
> take  the  credit.  Try  to  be  in  the  first  group; there is less
> competition there.                                    - Indira Gandhi
>
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[U-Boot-Users] Congratulations, Wolfgang made it to space

[Marc Leeman]

> thouht it probably going nowhere.  I've never thought Linux could make
> to the space, since I was an Aerospace enineer before and i know

Linux in space is not really new.

Unless I am mistaking, this is not the first time Linux has made it into
space, I seem to remember some presentation on FOSDEM or possibly within
the DSP Valley framework where an engineer from Verhaert presented their
new system (replacing an older one), but was now running Linux. As far
as I remember though (tm). There is another company (Newtec) that is
involved with ESAT satellite design that is using Linux (AFAIK).

But nothing relevant about the bootloader, so I'll be flamed about being
OT :-"

-- 
  Marc Leeman
  R&D Firmware Engineer
 
  Barco Security and Monitoring Division
  Noordlaan 5, Industriezone, B-8520 Kuurne (BE)
  Tel. +32 56 368 428
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