As a competitor of them, I am very familiar with them and I can say they are pretty good at what they do and have great contributions to the Embedded Linux world. If they are interested in helping, it would be wise to send them a board.

Atilla

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:37 AM, H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> wrote:

> Am 22.06.2016 um 11:20 schrieb Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin@fastmail.com>:
>
> I know of an advanced team working a lot on kernel improvements for
> ARM-based devices. That's Free Electrons, and they are in France.
> Looking at their blog http://free-electrons.com/blog/

they run http://lxr.free-electrons.com which is a really useful resource.
I almost daily use it...

> I suppose they may
> be interested in tinkering with Pyra prototype and submitting some
> patches, or at last following Pyra kernel development and reviewing
> patches and discussions.
>
> I have once had email conversation with Michael Opdenacker (CTO), he
> appeared very kind and open-minded. But I wonder if they can afford such
> charity now.

That can indeed be a problem We face the situation that people with really good
knowledge (e.g. notaz or the freelancers in my team) are dedicated to other tasks
and jobs and therefore have no spare time for helping another project.

>
> What I am proposing is to contact them and figure out how interested
> they are.

Other potential contacts:

www.pengutronix.de
www.linutronix.de

BR,
Nikolaus

PS: I have merged and configured your as5013 patches and it compiles.
But I haven't tested anything (other tasks, see comment above :).

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