[Wylug-discuss] OT: job advert - Leeds, kernel/driver/low level

[Graham Whaley]

Hi Paul.

 For clarity, the opening is in the Meta division of Imagination,
working in the group that does kernel porting for our own multi-threaded
DSP CPU. Our group do post patches back upstream when possible (see
http://www.remword.com/kps_result/2_6_29_whole_line.html - we ranked
166th for that release ;-), and are active members of the kernel and GPL
development communities.
 Our radio division, Pure, are currently shipping products with our
kernel on our processor, and the GPL sources available for download.

 Graham


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Brook [mailto:paul at codesourcery.com] 
Sent: 30 March 2009 16:31
To: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
Cc: Graham Whaley
Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] OT: job advert - Leeds, kernel/driver/low
level

> We (Imagination Technologies) have a graduate opening in our central 
> Leeds office, working in the embedded/OS/Linux department.
> If you, or anybody you know, is looking for a job post-graduation and 
> want to work at the kernel/compiler/hardware level then this may be 
> the job for you...

However be aware that Imagination Technologies (or at least parts that
used to be PowerVR) are very hostile to open source. They have a history
of releasing absolutely no technical documentation, and providing binary
drivers with murky licences[1].

See also
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzE1Mw
And no end of problems trying to get similar SGX hardware to work on
arm-linux.

Paul

[1] I believe the current set of drivers keeps the binarystuff in
userspace. 
However I've seen binary only kernel modules that claim a licence of
"GPL".
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