Pengutronix has launched a Web site and mailing list to support Linux on the popular ARM processors from Hynix. The company hopes to encourage peer review, stimulate code sharing, and generally centralize development efforts, especially around the Hynix h7202 and h7201, which Pengutronix says are interesting for low cost industrial projects like PLCs with CAN bus or machine terminals.

“Making commercial developers directly work with the Embedded Linux community is sometimes a difficult task,” says Robert Schwebel, CEO of Pengutronix and Embedded Linux book author. “Code is developed in companies which never is posted to the relevant mailing lists, and therefore never receives the necessary peer review, which we all know is the bread-and-butter of Open Source Software. The Linux-on-Hynix page is our attempt to concentrate the efforts and make it easier to maintain the code towards inclusion in mainline.”

Pengutronix is a German Embedded Linux company with focus on ARM architecture. The Hynix Linux development site is available here.

 
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