Re: [ECOS] Embedded PC SBC

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at cygnus dot co dot uk>]

In this case, perhaps you should look into EL/IX which is an effort by
Cygnus to bridge exactly this gap.
  http://sourceware.cygnus.com/elix/

On 07-Jan-00 j.d.charlton@ieee.org wrote:
> Patrick and ecos-discuss,
> 
> Thanks, I thought I had looked at the cygnus site more carefully,
> but there it is.  I am beginning to think that RTLinux may serve my
> needs a bit better for the embedded PC since I am developing a
> monitor/control application in Linux. So I am looking into that also.
> 
> --John
> 
> 
> On  7 Jan, Patrick O'Grady wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, J.D.:
>> 
>> I posted an i386/PC HAL package;
>> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ecos/contrib.html has a pointer to it.  The
>> last time I updated it was the end of October, so don't be suprised if the
>> eCos source code has changed quite a bit--installation might not be as
>> straightforward as before.  I'm actually planning on updating to the
>> current CVS version next week.  Look out for a bug somewhere in the mutex
>> handling code: I'm sure it's related to the interrupt handler code.  Stay
>> tuned for that fix.  But in the meantime, that package allows you to
>> construct a GDB stub on a floppy disk, so you just boot from that and then
>> connect to the debugger from COM1.  If you have any significant problems,
>> just e-mail questions to this list, that way everyone benefits from the
>> discussion.  Cheers!
>> 
>> -patrick
>> patrick@softprocess.com
>> 
>> 
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