[ECOS] Re: Preliminary questions on eCOS
Paul D. DeRocco
pderocco@ix.netcom.com
Tue Mar 20 18:00:00 GMT 2007
> From: JS Stoezel
>
> I see there is no tool chain for this type of processor (this
> is stated
> here: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ecos/getstart.html). However I can
> read: "Developers targeting one of the other architectures
> must build a toolchain themselves at present. Full
> instructions for downloading source code and building a
> toolchain are available.". Doesn't this mean I can port eCOS
> to the tool chain I am using?
You could probably get the toolchain working in "tiny" mode, with a 64K
address space, but that's not enough room to spit. The problem is that the
16-bit x86 is a segmented architecture, and that makes for a very
non-standard code generator, not to mention the impact on the OS itself.
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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
Paul mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com
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