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Re: Embedded PC SBC
- To: j dot d dot charlton at ieee dot org
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Embedded PC SBC
- From: "Patrick O'Grady" <patrick at softprocess dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 09:22:00 -0800 (PST)
- cc: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 j.d.charlton@ieee.org wrote:
>
> I am using the eCos synthetic Linux build for testing and initial
> development. I looked at all of the current ports and do not believe
> any of them fit my requirements. The main requirement is that it use a
> standard bus such as PC-104 for adding commercial ADC/DAC and other I/O
> modules. Cost is a factor.
>
> I am leaning toward using one of the commerical embedded 386/486/586
> embedded PC SBC's with ROM/FLASH/RAM options. I am also open to MC68k
> or PowerPC SBCs. Has anyone already done a port for an embedded PC
> or another platform that would meet this requirement? I prefer using
> eCos to embedding linux to reduce the operating system overhead and
> also to have real-time performance.
>
> Any constructive suggestions are welcome.
>
> --John
> (919) 382-0677
>
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