[yocto-ab] YP Advisory Board VOTE: Linutronix for YP Participant

[Phil Brownfield]

Yes from Freescale.

- Phil

On 07/01/14 13:49, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote:
> Hi all, one more vote this week. This is for Linutronix, a name that
> is probably well known to most of you. Please vote yes/no on
> Linutronix as YP Participant.
>
> Description in their words:
>
> linutronix as a linux service provider is using Yocto on variant
> customer projects where we do adapt the basic Yocto "bsp" from one of
> the hardware vendor or system vendor like phytec, to the needs of the
> end user. We are also offering and doing Yocto trainings in order to
> assist customers to be able to use Yocto and, for advantaged users,
> fully understand Yocto and be able to use it in total.
>
> We also are, as one of the contributor to the mainline kernel (-->
> Preempt-RT patch; see tglx, who is one the owner of linutronix),
> always convinced on open source tools and we believe in the idea of
> Yocto as a tool to leverage the use of Linux in the industry. We will
> be happy to assist to bring our RT knowledge in the Yocto project on
> different levels.
>
> We are also working on convincing some of our customers (which are
> producers of hardware modules) to switch from their own, proprietary
> based build systems (--> ptxdist) to Yocto. Here, a membership in
> Yocto would be very helpful. This will show our customer our strong
> believe in Yocto. And we are working on them to offer their adaptions
> as a layer to the relevant Yocto project they are based on with their
> product.
>
>     --Contact information--
>       Organization / project name: linutronix GmbH
>       Contact name: Heinz Egger
>       Contact email address: heinz.egger at linutronix.de
>       URL to organization or product link: www.linutronix.de
>       Registration date: 2014-06-23
>       Compliance Agreement revision: 1.0
>
>
> Criteria:
>    - Visibly participating in the Yocto Project community. Please describeyour
> participation in the comments section below.: Yes
>    - Working towards and supporting the aims and objectives of the Yocto
> Project. These include decreasing the fragmentation of embedded ecosystem and
> focusing around a common shared set of tools, formats and best practices. We
> want to avoid multiple groups of people repeating the same work and have one
> set of great tools rather than multiple tools with drawbacks.: Yes
>    - Committed to promoting the OpenEmbedded architecture, layer model, andBSP
> format.: Yes
>    - Are all your publicly accessible layers listed in the OpenEmbedded Layers
> index (http://layers.openembedded.org)?:
>    - Committed to sending to the open source community any patches to
> OpenEmbedded-Core, BitBake and other Yocto Project layers.: Yes
>    - Aiming for compatibility and interoperability among different metadata
> layers.: Yes
>    - Are a non-profit, small business (up to 80 employees), or existing Yocto
> Project member organization, or if the project's parent organization is an
> open-source project.: Yes
> Explanation:
>


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Phil Brownfield
p.brownfield at freescale.com  +1 512 895 3560