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Re: ecos: TCP/UDP/IP with Linux simulator
- To: brendan dot simon at bigpond dot com
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] ecos: TCP/UDP/IP with Linux simulator
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 02:27:14 +0000
- Cc: ecos-discuss <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <3A78C0C7.5040403@bigpond.com>
Brendan J Simon wrote:
>
> I am designing a mobile robot with a wireless interface. It will
> communicate via TCP/UDP/IP to a server on a Linux host. I want to
> simulate all the robot software (including ecos with the tcp/udp/ip
> stack) with ecos linux simulator.
> Is this possible ?
> Will the tcp/udp/ip interface simuate properly ?
> Do I have to write some kind of dummy/simulation driver for the wireless
> interface ?
The TCP stack cannot be simulated on the linux synthetic target yet. As I
think you are hinting at, it is possible to write a "driver" that could use
linux system calls to communicate with an external process, so that eCos
thinks it is talking to an ethernet card when it isn't really. But no-one
has done that yet.
And out of interest, eCos would require work to be ported to credit card
sized PCs - the eCos PC port cannot be put into flash yet.
Jifl
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