[ECOS] Help regarding:installing tftp-hpa on ecos, using lwip instead of the default tcp/ip stack???

Gary Thomas gary@mlbassoc.com
Tue Jul 12 12:08:00 GMT 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 13:58 +0200, Durgaprasad Chivukula wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
>  I am a newbie to ecos , I installed ecos checked out from the latest
> CVS on a PC (i386 ) with redhat linux  9.0 , I have few questions
> regarding ecos
> 
> 1.Can I install the tftp-hpa-0.40 package on ecos , if so what changes
> I have to do in make file and other files inorder to install.
> 
> 2.The thing is I am taking the (low weight ip) lwip port to ecos and
> make the tftp-hpa to use lwip to "get" and "put" files on ecos , is
> this possible to do so ? I want to say the tftp-hpa to use lwip ,
> instead of the default tcp/ip stack from ecos
> How can I accomplish this ? To say it in raw words I want to test
> tftp-hpa with lwip and not the default tcp/ip  stack from OS
> 
> I read from the ecos documentation that we can disable a feature and
> add new features to ecos , I mean a way of configuring the OS , is
> this possible to do so with the problems I mentioned above?
> 
> Please give me some ideas to proceed in my problem.Any kind of
> suggestions are welcome

Why do you want to install this package?  eCos already has complete
TFTP client and server support available.

To answer the question more directly; porting *any* outside package
takes some thought and time.  eCos is *not* Linux, and while it can
provide a POSIX environment, building for an embedded system requires
tuning of the sources, etc.

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