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Norberto Demiz | 9 Jun 2009 22:05
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Is Prex still under active development?

Hi guys,

Just wondering if there's been any active development going on. It
would be a shame to let such an interestig project die of digital rot.

Thanks,

ND

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Andrew Dennison | 10 Jun 2009 13:02
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Re: Is Prex still under active development?

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Norberto
Demiz<nuestrodinero.info <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Just wondering if there's been any active development going on. It
> would be a shame to let such an interestig project die of digital rot.

I use Prex daily but Kohsuke, the originator of Prex, has been silent
for a long time. I am considering pushing up a public git tree of some
of my changes so our ongoing work can be shared. I have accumulated
many bug fixes and would like to encourage others to contribute.

How many other people on this list use Prex and have changes they
would like to contribute?

Back in 2007 I published some changes at http://repo.or.cz/w/prex.git.
How many people are interested if I update this repository, or setup a
new repository at somewhere like http://github.com?

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Ivo Vachkov | 10 Jun 2009 13:25
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Re: Is Prex still under active development?

i would also like to contribute :)

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Andrew Dennison<andrewd.lists <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Norberto
> Demiz<nuestrodinero.info <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Just wondering if there's been any active development going on. It
>> would be a shame to let such an interestig project die of digital rot.
>
> I use Prex daily but Kohsuke, the originator of Prex, has been silent
> for a long time. I am considering pushing up a public git tree of some
> of my changes so our ongoing work can be shared. I have accumulated
> many bug fixes and would like to encourage others to contribute.
>
> How many other people on this list use Prex and have changes they
> would like to contribute?
>
> Back in 2007 I published some changes at http://repo.or.cz/w/prex.git.
> How many people are interested if I update this repository, or setup a
> new repository at somewhere like http://github.com?
>
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Yocto | 10 Jun 2009 16:12
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Re: Is Prex still under active development?

Hi Andrew,

> How many other people on this list use Prex and have changes they
> would like to contribute?
> 
> Back in 2007 I published some changes at http://repo.or.cz/w/prex.git.
> How many people are interested if I update this repository, or setup a
> new repository at somewhere like http://github.com?
> 

That would be great.

** plan to port to 
 - STM32 (Cortex-M3) 
 - Beagle Bard (Cortex-A8)

:)
// Yocto

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David Given | 10 Jun 2009 19:05

Re: Is Prex still under active development?

Andrew Dennison wrote:
[...]
> I use Prex daily but Kohsuke, the originator of Prex, has been silent
> for a long time. I am considering pushing up a public git tree of some
> of my changes so our ongoing work can be shared. I have accumulated
> many bug fixes and would like to encourage others to contribute.

My impression is that Kohsuke is around but not terribly frequently, and 
doesn't develop 'on-line', as it were --- the ARM MMU port suddenly 
showed up after months of silence.

> How many other people on this list use Prex and have changes they
> would like to contribute?

I don't use it but it's definitely on my shortlist if I ever want an 
embedded OS --- it's by far the cleanest I've ever seen (and I've worked 
with commercial stuff like Nucleus and VxWorks, although they do have a 
lot more functionality). I did start on a port to the Amstrad e-Mailer 
II, which is MMUless, but managed to explode the serial console just as 
I was getting to the point where the kernel would load...

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Andrew Dennison | 10 Jun 2009 23:10
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Re: Is Prex still under active development?

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:05 AM, David Given<dg <at> cowlark.com> wrote:
> Andrew Dennison wrote:
> [...]
>> I use Prex daily but Kohsuke, the originator of Prex, has been silent
>> for a long time. I am considering pushing up a public git tree of some
>> of my changes so our ongoing work can be shared. I have accumulated
>> many bug fixes and would like to encourage others to contribute.
>
> My impression is that Kohsuke is around but not terribly frequently, and
> doesn't develop 'on-line', as it were --- the ARM MMU port suddenly
> showed up after months of silence.

Kohsuke used to release an update every six months, but there has been
nothing for 18 months.

Sounds like there is a reasonable amount of interest so I'll start to
consolidate my changes and push up a git tree based on 0.8.1 in the
next week or so.

Andrew

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David Given | 11 Jun 2009 00:32

Re: Is Prex still under active development?


Andrew Dennison wrote:
[...]
> Kohsuke used to release an update every six months, but there has been
> nothing for 18 months.

Prex 0.8.1 (the one with the ARM MMU port) came out in October 2008,
which is nine months ago... we're not actually much overdue for the next
version.

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Andrew Dennison | 11 Jun 2009 00:55
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Re: Is Prex still under active development?

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:32 AM, David Given<dg <at> cowlark.com> wrote:
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> Andrew Dennison wrote:
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>> Kohsuke used to release an update every six months, but there has been
>> nothing for 18 months.
>
> Prex 0.8.1 (the one with the ARM MMU port) came out in October 2008,
> which is nine months ago... we're not actually much overdue for the next
> version.

I stand corrected. It seemed longer ago :)

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Konrad Eisele | 11 Jun 2009 09:15

Re: Is Prex still under active development?

I could contribute with a sparc (LEON-SPARC) port. Its now finished but
boots up till half of the initialization. I'm working on it at sparetime
so I'm making slow progress.
However I'd rather like to contribute it to the original tree instead of
forking a new tree. How come that Kohsuke is not reachable. I added a cc
to the mail. Maybe he will comment...

David Given wrote:
> Andrew Dennison wrote:
> [...]
>> I use Prex daily but Kohsuke, the originator of Prex, has been silent
>> for a long time. I am considering pushing up a public git tree of some
>> of my changes so our ongoing work can be shared. I have accumulated
>> many bug fixes and would like to encourage others to contribute.
> 
> My impression is that Kohsuke is around but not terribly frequently, and 
> doesn't develop 'on-line', as it were --- the ARM MMU port suddenly 
> showed up after months of silence.
> 
>> How many other people on this list use Prex and have changes they
>> would like to contribute?
> 
> I don't use it but it's definitely on my shortlist if I ever want an 
> embedded OS --- it's by far the cleanest I've ever seen (and I've worked 
> with commercial stuff like Nucleus and VxWorks, although they do have a 
> lot more functionality). I did start on a port to the Amstrad e-Mailer 
> II, which is MMUless, but managed to explode the serial console just as 
> I was getting to the point where the kernel would load...
>
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cyril.L | 11 Jun 2009 12:31
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Re: Is Prex still under active development?

Hi,
I am trying to port prex to the Nintendo DS at sparetime, If I succeed  
it would be nice to share it :)

Le 11 juin 09 à 09:15, Konrad Eisele a écrit :

> I could contribute with a sparc (LEON-SPARC) port. Its now finished  
> but
> boots up till half of the initialization. I'm working on it at  
> sparetime
> so I'm making slow progress.
> However I'd rather like to contribute it to the original tree  
> instead of
> forking a new tree. How come that Kohsuke is not reachable. I added  
> a cc
> to the mail. Maybe he will comment...
>
> David Given wrote:
>> Andrew Dennison wrote:
>> [...]
>>> I use Prex daily but Kohsuke, the originator of Prex, has been  
>>> silent
>>> for a long time. I am considering pushing up a public git tree of  
>>> some
>>> of my changes so our ongoing work can be shared. I have accumulated
>>> many bug fixes and would like to encourage others to contribute.
>>
>> My impression is that Kohsuke is around but not terribly  
>> frequently, and
>> doesn't develop 'on-line', as it were --- the ARM MMU port suddenly
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