[LTP] [Automated-testing] Call for nommu LTP maintainer [was: Re: [PATCH 00/36] Remove UCLINUX from LTP]

[Niklas Cassel]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 10:00:11AM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> 
> On 11/1/24 07:17, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 01:23:51PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > UCLINUX is a long-dead distro. Linaro died in the dot-com crash and its founder
> > > Jeff Dionne moved to Japan for his next gig and never came back. On the way out
> > > he handed uclinux off to someone else, who didn't do a lot of work maintaining
> > > it. Most of the actual support went "upstream" into various packages (linux and
> > > busybox and gcc and so on) before the handoff, so you didn't NEED uclinux anymore.
> > 
> > s/Linaro/Lineo/
> 
> Lineo was not founded by Jeff Dionne, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineo
> for its genisys. Maybe you are thinking of RT-Control.

Yes, Jeff cofounded Rt-Control which later merged with Lineo.

My main point is that Linaro is a completely different company,
which did not "die in the dot-com crash", like stated above.


Kind regards,
Niklas