<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:22 AM Christian Mauderer <<a href="mailto:christian.mauderer@embedded-brains.de">christian.mauderer@embedded-brains.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 14/04/2020 15:40, Joel Sherrill wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:47 AM Christian Mauderer<br>
> <<a href="mailto:christian.mauderer@embedded-brains.de" target="_blank">christian.mauderer@embedded-brains.de</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:christian.mauderer@embedded-brains.de" target="_blank">christian.mauderer@embedded-brains.de</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello Joel,<br>
> <br>
> On 07/04/2020 22:44, Joel Sherrill wrote:<br>
> > Hi<br>
> ><br>
> > The RTEMS Project is rapidly approaching a major milestone -- the 25th<br>
> > anniversary of the oldest commit in the git repository! That<br>
> occurs on 4<br>
> > May 2020!<br>
> ><br>
> > Before that time, the source code was managed on an internal research<br>
> > project repository and snapshots/releases made available via ftp.<br>
> I know<br>
> > I started with the project in July 1989 and was coding nearly from the<br>
> > first day.<br>
> ><br>
> > With this in mind,<br>
> the <a href="https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/History/Timeline" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/History/Timeline</a> is<br>
> > sorely out of date and lacking missing entries. Multiple mission<br>
> > launches, addition of SMP, GSoC, GCI, and SOCIC participation, move to<br>
> > OSU OSL, incorporation of RTEMS Foundation, scientific<br>
> discoveries like<br>
> > the particle discovered by an Atlas detector at CERN or the famous<br>
> gamma<br>
> > ray burst from Fermi. All are missing. <br>
> ><br>
> > Please pitch in and help. If you want to help but don't have any<br>
> ideas,<br>
> > just post back and I will try to follow up with ideas that someone<br>
> else<br>
> > can put a date on. <br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks.<br>
> ><br>
> > --joel<br>
> <br>
> I added some small stuff (start of SMP work, main work, release numbers)<br>
> based on the git history (see<br>
> <a href="https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/History/Timeline?action=diff&version=27&old_version=25" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/History/Timeline?action=diff&version=27&old_version=25</a>).<br>
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> <br>
> Thanks! That's a good set of information. <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Although I'm terribly bad with dates: You said you would try to follow<br>
> up with ideas. If you have any where I might could help, please let<br>
> me know.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> How about these (random and before coffee/tea)<br>
> <br>
> + Any cool non-space programs folks can admit to?<br>
> + First submission from some core developers.<br>
> - Chris was second submitter and is in the 91-92 timeframe. We don't<br>
> remember.<br>
> - Thomas first shows up in git in March 1998. <br>
> - Sebastian gets a nod in July 2008. :)<br>
> + When were some ports added?<br>
> + When were some interesting/popular BSPs added: Zyng, Leon3, gba, etc<br>
> - FWIW the original PC BSP was based on DJ Delorie's go32 and pre-dates <br>
> the git history. I did that on a single PC (486 with 32 MB RAM). I<br>
> couldn't run<br>
> X11 and compile at the same time. I had to reboot to test. Yes it<br>
> was uphill<br>
> both ways back in those days. :)<br>
> + When were some of the original ports/BSPs removed?<br>
> - mvme135/136 was first BSP<br>
> - i386 was second port<br>
> - i960 was last of original 3 ports<br>
> + Interesting features? Like libnetworking, libbsd, shell, dynamic loading?<br>
> + The Cygnus floppy mailing:<br>
> <a href="https://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/people/joel/CygnusFloppyAugust1995/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/people/joel/CygnusFloppyAugust1995/</a><br>
> <br>
> This may be good as a small tasks ticket where people cross things off <br>
> as they get added.<br>
<br>
I added a ticket here: <a href="https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/3952" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/3952</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you. I went ahead and added the incorporation of the RTEMS Foundation</div><div>to the wiki and the NASA Fermi discovery which won the top prize in high energy</div><div>astrophysics in 2018.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2018/18-004.html">https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2018/18-004.html</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>I'd love to see folks speak up and share that type of event. :)</div><div><br></div><div>And randomly, Fermi was launched in 2008 and expected to last five years.</div><div>It is now at 12 and the last I checked with them, they expected to continue to</div><div>get funding to keep running. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> It is amazing how much this has prodded my memory. :)<br>
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> --joel<br>
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> <br>
> Best regards<br>
> <br>
> Christian<br>
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