Embedded World 2010 is over and our exhibition team has brought back many new contacts, inspirations and a few pictures of this year's Pengutronix booth.
As in the past years Pengutronix will present itself from March 2nd to March 4th 2010 at the Embedded World Exhibition and Conference at Nuremberg, Germany. Visit us at stand 308 in hall 11 and let us show you the most recent developments in the areas of Linux kernel development, high-performance GUIs and modern, ajax-based web interfaces.
SPS/IPC/Drives 2009 has closed its doors and the Pengutronix exhibition team has returned to Hildesheim tired but with many exciting news and developments. We would like to use this opportunity to thank you for the many, interested visits to our booth!
Many of our customers have used the opportunity to pay us a short visit and inform themselves on the newest developments in the area of embedded Linux over a cup of coffee and some penguin cookies. We were just as happy to meet numerous interested prospective clients and hope that we will soon be able to welcome them among our many satisfied customers.
Although Linux has already been established as a reliable solution in the industrial market, there are still many exciting challenges left. We are looking forward to tackling those new challenges together with our customers and thus be able to tap the full potential of Linux in the automation area.
A few pictures of our booth can be found on the respective events page. Pengutronix would like to thank all participants and visitors for a successful exhibition and is looking forward to seeing everyone again in 2010!
The ptxdist team has released version 1.99.19 of ptxdist today. This release is part of the 1.99 beta series leading towards ptxdist-2.0.0.
Highlights of this release:
- Updates: cleanup all over the place, several updated packets, dependency fixes
- X11R7.5: all x.org packages have been updated to the latest and greatest
- Automatic autogen: no need to package patches for autogenerated files any more
- New packets: lm_sensors, Qt 4.5.3, Tomcat, more SDL libs, avahi, ipv6 stuff, libmng, arora, gpm
- Ptxdist: Improved fallback handling for projects which have only one ptxconfig and platformconfig file.
Procekt website: http://www.ptxdist.org
Mailing list: ptxdist at pengutronix.de
IRC: #ptxdist or irc.freenode.net
Pengutronix has started providing the Realtime Preemption Linux kernel packages for the Debian distribution on http://debian.pengutronix.de.
Debian is well established as a solid base for IT services for years. Nevertheless, users from the automation industry until now still had the problem that they had to patch their kernels manually if they had hard realtime requirements.
The Debian packets provided now consist of the kernels in exactly the state as they have been released by the maintainers. This makes it possible that users can direct their bug reports directly into the upstream Realtime Preemption project, in order to improve the common code base.
More information can be found on the project page:
Today is the 16th anniversary of the foundation of the Debian Project. Pengutronix congratulates its favourite distribution and is looking forward to its next release, Debian 6.0 "Squeeze".
Mainz/Hildesheim, Germany - PHYTEC Messtechnik and Pengutronix have released a new revision of the Linux Board Support Package for Phytec's phyCORE based CPU modules.
OSELAS ®.BSP-Phytec-phyCORE-12
The OSELAS.BSP-Phytec-phyCORE-12 adds support for phyCORE-MPC5121e, improves support for the
phyCORE-i.MX27 and phyCORE-i.MX31 and continues to support the phyCORE-i.MX35, phyCORE-Z500PT,
phyCORE-MPC5200B-tiny, phyCORE-MPC5200B-IO and phyCORE-PXA270 CPU module
in the same way than the previous release.
Its to be used in conjunction with Pengutronix's
PTXdist
userland build system version 1.99.12 and
OSELAS.Toolchain-1.99.3.2.
About OSELAS®
The Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services are Pengutronix's consulting product for Open Source based engineering. The idea behind OSS is that software is a service product, so consequently Pengutronix has focussed all it's activities behind the OSELAS® label. OSELAS®.BSP() is a series of Linux Board support packages, featuring best-practise community processes for highest business benefit throughout the industry.
About PTXdist
PTXdist is one of the major technology components of Pengutronix' professional Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services.
Mainz/Hildesheim, Germany - PHYTEC Messtechnik and Pengutronix have released a new revision of the Linux Board Support Package for Phytec's phyCORE based CPU modules.
OSELAS ®.BSP-Phytec-phyCORE-11
The OSELAS.BSP-Phytec-phyCORE-11 improves support for the
phyCORE-i.MX35 and phyCORE-Z500PT and continues to support the phyCORE-MPC5200B-tiny,
phyCORE-MPC5200B-IO, phyCORE-i.MX27, phyCORE-i.MX31 and phyCORE-PXA270 CPU module
in the same way than the previous release.
Its to be used in conjunction with Pengutronix's
PTXdist
userland build system version 1.99.12 and
OSELAS.Toolchain-1.99.3.2.
About OSELAS®
The Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services are Pengutronix's consulting product for Open Source based engineering. The idea behind OSS is that software is a service product, so consequently Pengutronix has focussed all it's activities behind the OSELAS® label. OSELAS®.BSP() is a series of Linux Board support packages, featuring best-practise community processes for highest business benefit throughout the industry.
About PTXdist
PTXdist is one of the major technology components of Pengutronix' professional Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services.
Hildesheim, Germany - Pengutronix has released the next revision (1.99.3.2) of the toolchain build system OSELAS.Toolchain(), being one of the major technology components of Pengutronix' professional Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services, OSELAS®.
The 1.99.3.2 revision is a bug fix release only. Refer the Changelog file in the archive for details.
In case you ever wondered how Pengutronix Hildesheim looks like in spring, here is the answer (the master of the penguins apologizes for the bad image quality, only a mobile phone was available at that moment... :-)
Hildesheim, Germany - The Linux Kernel 2.6.29 was released on 2009-03-23. Pengutronix contributed 79 patches changing 3,474 lines this time. Our topics were:
- maintaining and building up the i.MX-platform
- improving RealTime and ftrace on embedded devices
- reorganizing i2c subsystem infrastructure
- smaller bugfixes while working on various topics
Furthermore, the following userspace projects accepted patches from us since last time:
- vpnc (cross-compile improvements, bugfixes)
- liblockfile (lockfiles got stale too early)
We want to thank the community for their support and those customers who were partly funding this development.
Pengutronix is an embedded linux specialist creating benefits for both, customers and the community.
Mainz/Hildesheim, Germany - PHYTEC Messtechnik and Pengutronix have released a new revision of the Linux Board Support Package for Phytec's phyCORE based CPU modules.
OSELAS ®.BSP-Phytec-phyCORE-10
The OSELAS.BSP-Phytec-phyCORE-10 adds the support for the
phyCORE-i.MX35, phyCORE-MPC5200B-tiny, phyCORE-MPC5200B-IO and phyCORE-Atom CPU modules,
updates the phyCORE-i.MX27 and phyCORE-i.MX31 module to the 2.6.29 kernel
and continues to support the PXA270 based modules in the same
way than the previous release.
Its to be used in conjunction with Pengutronix's
PTXdist
userland build system version 1.99.12 and
OSELAS.Toolchain-1.99.3.1.
About OSELAS®
The Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services are Pengutronix's consulting product for Open Source based engineering. The idea behind OSS is that software is a service product, so consequently Pengutronix has focussed all it's activities behind the OSELAS® label. OSELAS®.BSP() is a series of Linux Board support packages, featuring best-practise community processes for highest business benefit throughout the industry.
About PTXdist
PTXdist is one of the major technology components of Pengutronix' professional Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services.
Hildesheim, Germany - Pengutronix has released version 1.99.12 of the userland build system PTXdist for embedded systems. PTXdist is one of the major technology components of Pengutronix' professional Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services, OSELAS®.
This revision is the next step on the way to the final ptxdist-2.0.0 release.
A complete ptxdist installation consists of
- tar xf ptxdist-1.99.12.tgz
- tar xf ptxdist-1.99.12-patches.tgz
cd ptxdist-1.99.12 ./configure && make && make install
Please also visit our IRC channel #ptxdist on irc.freenode.net.
PTXdist is a GPL licensed tool which can be used to customize Linux and the GNU userland for all kinds of embedded systems, like PLCs, data loggers, firewalls etc. It provides a kconfig configuration system and a Makefile based framework to document how an embedded Linux was created. The archive is small and downloads all necessary source archives from the original web sites with wget.
The release can be found on the PTXdist download site, further information about PTXdist here.
Hildesheim, Germany - Pengutronix has released the next revision (1.99.3) of the toolchain build system OSELAS.Toolchain(), being one of the major technology components of Pengutronix' professional Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services, OSELAS®.
The 1.99.3 revision is a bug fix release only. Refer the Changelog file in the archive for details.
Hildesheim, Germany - Pengutronix has released version 1.99.11 of the userland build system PTXdist for embedded systems. PTXdist is one of the major technology components of Pengutronix' professional Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services, OSELAS®.
This revision is the next step on the way to the final ptxdist-2.0.0 release.
A complete ptxdist installation consists of
- tar xf ptxdist-1.99.11.tgz
- tar xf ptxdist-1.99.11-patches.tgz
cd ptxdist-1.99.11 ./configure && make && make install
Please also visit our IRC channel #ptxdist on irc.freenode.net.
PTXdist is a GPL licensed tool which can be used to customize Linux and the GNU userland for all kinds of embedded systems, like PLCs, data loggers, firewalls etc. It provides a kconfig configuration system and a Makefile based framework to document how an embedded Linux was created. The archive is small and downloads all necessary source archives from the original web sites with wget.
The release can be found on the PTXdist download site, further information about PTXdist here.
Hildesheim, Germany - The Linux Kernel 2.6.28 was released on 2008-12-24. Pengutronix contributed 21 patches changing 2,396 lines this time. Our topics were:
- continuing the work of including the i.MX31 to the mainline
- MPC5200B-maintenance
- improvements to the I2C-subsystem.
- usual bunch of minor fixes
Furthermore, the following userspace projects accepted patches from us since last time:
- atop (cross-build-fixes)
- ckermit (bugfix for long variable names)
- hdparm (cross-build-fixes)
- tslib (clean ups)
We want to thank the community for their support and those customers who were partly funding this development, namely: Phytec Messtechnik
Pengutronix is an embedded linux specialist creating benefits for both, customers and the community.
Mainz/Hildesheim, Germany - PHYTEC Messtechnik and Pengutronix have released a new revision of the Linux Board Support Package for Phytec's phyCORE based CPU modules.
OSELAS ®.BSP-Phytec-phyCORE-9
The OSELAS.BSP-Phytec-phyCORE-9 adds the support for the
phyCORE-PXA270 CPU module and continues to support the phyCORE-i.MX27 and
phyCORE-i.MX31 module in the same way than the previous release.
Its to be used in conjunction with Pengutronix's
PTXdist
userland build system version 1.99.10 and
OSELAS.Toolchain-1.99.2.
About OSELAS®
The Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services are Pengutronix's consulting product for Open Source based engineering. The idea behind OSS is that software is a service product, so consequently Pengutronix has focussed all it's activities behind the OSELAS® label. OSELAS®.BSP() is a series of Linux Board support packages, featuring best-practise community processes for highest business benefit throughout the industry.
About PTXdist
PTXdist is one of the major technology components of Pengutronix' professional Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services.
Mainz/Hildesheim, Germany - PHYTEC Messtechnik and Pengutronix have released a new revision of the Linux Board Support Package for Phytec's phyCORE based CPU modules.
OSELAS ®.BSP-Phytec-phyCORE-8
The OSELAS.BSP-Phytec-phyCORE-8 introduces the main support for the
phyCORE-i.MX31 CPU module and continues to support the phyCORE-i.MX27 module
in the same way than the previous release.
Its to be used in conjunction with Pengutronix's
PTXdist
userland build system version 1.99.10 and
OSELAS.Toolchain-1.99.2.
About OSELAS®
The Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services are Pengutronix's consulting product for Open Source based engineering. The idea behind OSS is that software is a service product, so consequently Pengutronix has focussed all it's activities behind the OSELAS® label. OSELAS®.BSP() is a series of Linux Board support packages, featuring best-practise community processes for highest business benefit throughout the industry.
About PTXdist
PTXdist is one of the major technology components of Pengutronix' professional Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services.