[ECOS] Embedded PC SBC

[Patrick O'Grady]

Hi, J.D.:

I posted an i386/PC HAL package;
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ecos/contrib.html has a pointer to it.  The
last time I updated it was the end of October, so don't be suprised if the
eCos source code has changed quite a bit--installation might not be as
straightforward as before.  I'm actually planning on updating to the
current CVS version next week.  Look out for a bug somewhere in the mutex
handling code: I'm sure it's related to the interrupt handler code.  Stay
tuned for that fix.  But in the meantime, that package allows you to
construct a GDB stub on a floppy disk, so you just boot from that and then
connect to the debugger from COM1.  If you have any significant problems,
just e-mail questions to this list, that way everyone benefits from the
discussion.  Cheers!

-patrick
patrick@softprocess.com


On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 j.d.charlton@ieee.org wrote:

> 
> I am using the eCos synthetic Linux build for testing and initial
> development.  I looked at all of the current ports and do not believe
> any of them fit my requirements. The main requirement is that it use a
> standard bus such as PC-104 for adding commercial ADC/DAC and other I/O
> modules. Cost is a factor.
> 
> I am leaning toward using one of the commerical embedded 386/486/586
> embedded PC SBC's with ROM/FLASH/RAM options.  I am also open to MC68k
> or PowerPC SBCs.  Has anyone already done a port for an embedded PC
> or another platform that would meet this requirement? I prefer using
> eCos to embedding linux to reduce the operating system overhead and
> also to have real-time performance.
> 
> Any constructive suggestions are welcome.
> 
> --John
> (919) 382-0677
> 
> 
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