Sidekick users rest assured! the LX 2009 / Blade Will Run NetBSD
The upcoming LX 2009 Sidekick phone will be the first device that Danger produces under the reign of Microsoft. One would thought Microsoft would add its old sauce namely Windows CE or Windows Mobile 6. But Sidekick fans can rest assured, Hiphop3 posted some information that hint the new device will be powered by the free open source NetBSD operating system and the Sidekick UI will remain the same.
Location: Redmond, WA
Client: Microsoft.
Job Description:
Seeking a talented NetBSD software developer interested in helping Danger (a subsidiary of Microsoft) ship the next generation of Danger’s Sidekick platform. Specifically, we’re looking for NetBSD developers interested in commercializing the NetBSD platform for an embedded mobile computing device, focusing on performance and optimization, bug fixing, and integration with Danger’s higher-level platform code, with an emphasis on kernel and driver support.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of software development experience
- 8+ years experience with C
- Strong understanding of OS concepts (particularly with NetBSD) such as multi-threaded program design and synchronization, processes & memory protection, etc.
- Strong communication skills
- Strong understanding of the NetBSD/GNU software development process and embedded development & debugging techniques
- Deep understanding of NetBSD, including timers, RPC, TCP/IP, etc.
- Experience with ARM processors highly desirable
Subject: Arm support for TI SDP2430, ARM 1136, ARMv6 and ARM VIPT cache
To: None From: Martin Fouts
List: port-arm
Date: 09/25/2007 12:46:40
I’ve just attempted to send-pr a patch that adds support to release-4 for the TI SDP2430 evaluation board, the ARM 1136 processor core, ARM V6 cache support and VIPT support for ARM.
The work represents the effort of Matt Thomas and Cliff Neighbors of 3AM Software Foundry for Danger, Inc. as well the efforts of many people at Danger, including Marty Fouts, Todd Poynor, Ken Sumrall and others. It builds on the previous OMAP port to NetBSD submitted by “Picovex” containing the port to OMAP by Scott Anderson and others at Danger.
Matt Thomas is currently committing the changes to the matt-armv6 branch.
The port is reasonably stable: It has self-hosted on an NFS mounted file system on the SDP2430 board.
Now that Danger is actively and openly working on NetBSD, we will be making some of our other drivers and ports available to the community as they become stable.
when is it coming out and how much is it gonna b the internet has gien me nothing when it said on a site its coming out February 12