[ECOS] UPnP and Ecos

[Lewin A.R.W. Edwards]

>I'm evaluating the port of UPnP SDK from Intel on an embedding Linux like Ecos
>probably for a ARM7 Samsung target.

It's quite complicated; eCos has MOST of the underlying requirements but 
the port isn't simple. If you can afford to do so, WAIT and work on 
polishing other parts of your product. Microsoft is working on a 
"standalone" UPnP implementation. They keep promising and re-promising and 
pushing the date further into the future, but it is coming eventually (we 
will not consider attempting to implement anything UPnP until this SDK 
addition is released).

Wait-and-see also lets you avoid implementing it if it all implodes before 
market-time. A couple of major players pulled out, and in other fields 
there are upcoming and/or recently-announced competing standards that will 
probably be better supported for some time. Unless you REALLY need a UPnP 
logo on your box in Q4'01 or Q1'02 (I hope you have more selling points 
than that.... :) a good strategy to pursue is enthusiastic talk only, since 
that's what everyone else is doing.

=== Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (Embedded Engineer)
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