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Is Redboot suitable for my purposes?
- From: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
- To: <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 14:56:45 +0200
- Subject: [ECOS] Is Redboot suitable for my purposes?
Is Redboot/eCos is suitable for our purposes?
I suspect yes, but I'd appreciate a word of advice, if
I'm on the wrong track.
(I'm trying to get things up and running on EB40a, which
I will address in a seperate mail).
Background:
I'm in the process of putting together a development and deployment
solution for an Atmel processor. For this project we have chosen the
EB40a evaluation board.
It seems to me that Redboot is precisely what we need:
- bootloader which supports field upgrades (Redboot) via serial port and
x/y modem.
- tool chain
- runtime libraries
- startup code
- etc.
The needs for our application are very modest: serial port communication,
communication (memory mapped io) with our FPGA and interrupt handling
(timer/serial/from the FPGA).
>From what I have read it is possible to launch Redboot applications(i.e. no
eCos OS, or a very minimal configuration).
What should I expect the flash/ram usage overhead to be in such a scenario?
Øyvind Harboe
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