In message 45898061.2070205@smiths-aerospace.com you wrote:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8137978310.html
/Linux blasts off in U.S. tactical satellite/
"The PowerPC CPUs are running a modified version of the DENX ELDK 3.1 Linux 2.4.25. The bootloader is U-Boot 1.1.2."
Very cool stuff.
Yes, that's really cool indeed.
But I have to correct you're subject line: its not me who made this, it's we all here contributing to this and other Free Software projects. Without such a great community neither U-Boot nor Linux nor the ELDK would exist. I'm just a small piece in this puzzle, and as some of you know all too well I'm too often more a bottleneck than a help.
So all I can say is: Thanks to all of you folks who contribute to all these projects and make such things possible with Free Software.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk