Dear Sirs,
We have been developing many-core system in a program of“Extremely Low-power Circuits and Systems (Green IT Project)”sponsored by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) which is one of National Project in Japan. We of Ritsumeikan University team are engaged in developing high-level API for a parallel computing on device cores and the software developing environment for many-core system. Here, we found out two important issues for the future of embedded Linux as follows: 1. uClibc cannot support some functions which glibc can support. A embedded system is developed for a specific field, and requires some functions in glibc. 2. Math functions and full computing of float and double are supported with MPFR and GMP libraries installed into GCC. In many-core system, GCC is not available because a load address must be specified. LD links object files and creates a binary file. This LD cannot load MPFR and GMP libraries. So, a computing device in many-core system cannot use math functions and full computing of float and double. In order to solve these issues, we are planning to hold a workshop in MCSoC2013. [website] http://www.mcsoc-forum.org/workshops.html [Title] Workshop on Future for Embedded Linux for Many-Core Systems (FELM-2013) Please introduce a distributer and a developer on a distributer side to us in order to discuss how to solve these issues for this workshop. Best Regards. ---------------------------------- Noriko Etani (Dr. Engineering) Researcher, Ritsumeikan University Research Organaization of Science and Technology 1-1-1 Noji-Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan Phone: +81-77-561-5013 Email: norik...@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp
