Contributing to opensource.

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Chaitannya Mahatme

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Jan 29, 2011, 5:23:39 AM1/29/11
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Hello Everyone,

We at Embedded Nirvana are doing "the stuff" which will benefit the embedded hacker community. We also would love to put your efforts to mainline OSes / Development environment.

In short we are creating a fully virtualized development environment for embedded devices. No more messing around with power cables and connectors :)

However one of our big goals is to make our efforts industrially viable.


We have thought to approach orgainzations which provide hardware / FOSS software:
OSes: Red Hat / Fedora / Debian / Canonical / etc.
Chip designer: Texas Instruments / Freescale Semiconductors / Qualcomm / etc.

The plan follows.

We make virtualized environment as we have done for the DVD with following features.
  1. Tool-chain for a set of devices for that particular chipmaker.
  2. Linux and other related source code and precompiled binaries/libraries.
  3. Create a complete development and debug environment.
  4. Customized Eclipse IDE for that particular embedded hardware / board.
  5. QEMU for doing the virtualization of hardware board.
Subsequently, we would like to approach various OS distributions ( Fedora/Debian ) to create a remix exclusively for a particular embedded hardware / chipmaker.

Please add your views on how can we achieve this or what hurdles we would encounter.


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karim memon

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Jan 29, 2011, 2:01:12 PM1/29/11
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 Sorry if i'm being a noob but why did you preferr VMware over VirtualBox?

Chaitannya Mahatme

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Jan 30, 2011, 12:14:36 AM1/30/11
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On Sunday 30 January 2011 12:31 AM, karim memon wrote:
 Sorry if i'm being a noob but why did you preferr VMware over VirtualBox?
You can take the initiative of doing it over Virtual box. We have all the scripts and code. It's just the matter of personal preference.

ksinkar

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Feb 9, 2011, 1:46:45 PM2/9/11
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Can you share the scripts and the code??
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