[ECOS] multi-process and virtual memory support..?

[Andrew Lunn]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:35:29PM +0900, Satish Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>      Does ecos supports multi-processor or multi-process and virtual
> memory support..? i see nothing related to this in in the ecos kernel.
> any specific reasons behind this..? or am i missing something..?

eCos has support for SMP. 

eCos uses threads rather than processes. Threads are more efficient
for real time systems.

Why do you want virtual memory in a deeply embedded system? It normal
to run everything from real RAM and/or FLASH. eCos doesn't have much
disk support at the moment anyway, so there is no place to swap memory
to...

If you need multiprocessor, multi-procesing and virtual memory, it
sounds like you want a bigger OS, eg linux, *BSD etc.

       Andrew

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