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FW: Evaluating eCOS for a MIPS R4000 based IPMI controller
- From: "Hoermann, Volker" <Volker dot Hoermann at fci dot com>
- To: "'ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com'" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:53:17 +0200
- Subject: [ECOS] FW: Evaluating eCOS for a MIPS R4000 based IPMI controller
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hoermann, Volker
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:51 AM
> To: 'ecos-devel@sources.redhat.com'
> Cc: 'ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com'; Gettert, Wolfram;
> 'danielm@eCosCentric.com'; Gettert, Wolfram; Willers, Karin; Mayer, Ralf
> Subject: RE: Evaluating eCOS for a MIPS R4000 based IPMI controller
>
> Dear eCos developers,
>
>
> as i already explained last week, we are evaluating a small RTOS for our
> MIPS R3000/R4000 based IPMI controller.
> For that purpose i have successfully installed eCos for the first time. I
> have had no problems compiling an MIPS
> template (Atlas) with the configuration manager but although i had removed
> PCI and Ethernet related libraries the
> object file was 1.6 MByte.
>
> For that reason i would like to ask you, what is a typical minimal, normal
> and maximal size for an eCos2.0 kernel
> with HAL and without additional libraries (PCI, network,...)
>
> Thankyou for your help in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> Volker
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hoermann, Volker
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:37 PM
> To: 'ecos-devel@sources.redhat.com'
> Cc: 'ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com'; Gettert, Wolfram
> Subject: Evaluating eCOS for a MIPS R4000 based IPMI controller
>
> Hello everybody,
>
>
> i' am in the process of evaluating a small RTOS for our MIPS R4000 based
> IPMI controller. Meanwhile i have
> successfully installed eCOS for the first time and have had a short look
> to the configuration tool.
>
> eCOS looks very interesting for me but i am asking myself whether it is to
> powerful for my 49 MHz core with
> 1MByte flash and 8 KByte internal and 512KByte external SRAM (no MMU).
>
> Maybe uC-OSII is better suited for this?
>
> What do you believe? How big is the effort of porting an existing HAL to
> my hardware?
>
> Thankyou very much in advance.
> It is really not easy for me to get a closer look without heavy workin.
>
> Best regards,
> Volker Hoermann
>
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> -----------------------------------
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>
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