TimeSys has launched a partner program intended to help silicon vendors offer up-to-date, commercially-supported embedded Linux distributions for their chips. The TimeSys OnBoard program provides an infrastructure that allows the chipmakers to collaborate with TimeSys on testing, certifying, and distributing embedded Linux kernels containing their latest chip-specific support.

So far, MIPS and ARM have joined the OnBoard program, TimeSys says, while Freescale has endorsed it.

MIPS will use the program to collaborate with TimeSys on Linux Development Kits (LDKs) that support “a broad subset of the MIPS32 and MIPS64 processor core families,” TimeSys says. ARM, meanwhile, will use the program to deliver LDKs for the ARM RealView Integrator Compact Platform with ARM920T Core Module. And, Freescale will use the program to deliver processor-optimized LDKs for the MPC8360E PowerQUICC II Pro processor family.

MontaVista also announced today that it will support the MPC8360E family.

“The OnBoard Program gets the latest partner-developed and open source Linux features into the hands of developers now,” said TimeSys CEO Larry Weidman.

 
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