[ECOS] Some questions

[Jonathan Larmour]

Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 16:27, Agarwal, Lomesh wrote:
> 
>>I am using RedBoot version 1.24 for Xscale.
>>So, I was wondering what is the current version of RedBoot?
>>What is the gcc version which I should use to compile RedBoot?

Depends. Some people use 2.95.x some use 3.x.

>>Is there a document which tells what has been added after version 1.24
>>
> 
> We don't give version numbers (not like those at least) to RedBoot or 
> eCos.  I suspect that the version numbering was provided by Intel.

Actually Red Hat did for RedBoot only releases. Strictly it should have 
been R1.24 but sometimes the release engineer forgot the initial R (sigh!).

But the version numbers are pretty meaningless now. In future, for public 
net releases, the RedBoot number will be the eCos number. i.e. the next 
one will be 2.00. Eventually!

> As for what's changed since that version was made, the answer is 
> probably quite a lot.

If I remember right, that one was from about August 2001 - the RedBoot 
binary shipped with the release should have a build date which should also 
be an age indicator (although not necessarily accurate). So yes, a huge 
amount has changed. The cvs diffs would be pretty big. Comparing the 
redboot documentation now and then may give a better idea of overall high 
level feature changes. Use the docs at http://www.vsr.si/ecos for the 
moment though.

Jifl
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