Re: [ECOS] ECOS - MIPS

[Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:27:32AM +0300, K. Sinan YILDIRIM wrote:
> People may have positive and negative comments about a SW product. Does this 
> group for only positive ones ? Or only positive questions ? 
> 
> I have been writing SW for about 10 years. I have just examined eCOS and found 
> that it is configurable on some way and unconfigurable ( hard to reconfigure 
> ) on some way. May be it is much more configurable than the existing ones but 
> not a super really configurable OS. 
> 
> I am the user. This is a user point of view . Having a seperate HAL layer or a 
> structured file tree doesnt make an operating system really configurable. 
> Configurability means to change the operating system according to your needs 
> in a quick way : not being able to change it in a month... 
> 
> configurable modern SW is done with SW patterns. Architectural and Design 
> patterns makes SW configurable, easy to change, etc... Embedded SW needs good 
> architectural design with really reusable architectural and design patterns. 
> What makes JAVA popular is these points. It is a programming framework that 
> fullfills these points.
> 
> eCOS is  not a really framework. When you read the documentation, it seems to 
> be an OS framework but indeed it doesn't. 
> 
> What i try to mean is we must make it better in order to make it usable in the 
> future. 

Could you give some examples of what you would change?

        Thanks
                Andrew

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