[ECOS] Re: Red Hat eCos and RedBoot news

["Markus Meng" <meng dot engineering at bluewin dot ch>]

Hi Thomas,

see this, are you ready to deploy a working SW environment once you
may announce your MIPS engine?

markus

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Larmour" <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: <ecos-announce@sources.redhat.com>; "eCos discussion"
<ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 3:59 AM
Subject: Red Hat eCos and RedBoot news


> Again Red Hat and the eCos community have been working hard to deliver
more
> new ports and features to eCos and RedBoot. Here's a highlight of some
> exciting new functionality we've added recently:
>
> o eCos and RedBoot ported to the Compaq iPAQ PocketPC. Try out
>   our eCos Microwindows demo for the iPAQ at
>   http://sources.redhat.com/redboot/ipaq/ ! Support includes
>   keypad, touch screen, watchdog, FLASH, PCMCIA and Compact
>   Flash drivers. RedBoot includes support for booting ARM Linux.
>   Derived from an initial port by Richard Panton of 3G Lab and
>   enhanced significantly by Red Hat.
>
> o eCos/RedBoot port to the ARM Evaluator-7T. Currently beta quality.
>
> o eCos/RedBoot port to QED RM7000 Ocelot, including PCI, ethernet and
>   FLASH support.
>
> o RedBoot ported to the MIPS Atlas eval board with MIPS32 4Kc or
>   MIPS64 5Kc processor modules, including PCI, serial, ethernet and
>   FLASH drivers.
>
> o RedBoot support for ARM PID/EPI Dev7/EPI Dev9 targets.
>
> o Port added to the Cosmo CEB-V850/SB1
>
> o Compressed image support has been added to RedBoot
>
> o ROM based file system support has been added, contributed by
>   Richard Panton of 3G Lab.
>
> o Generic FLASH drivers added for Intel FlashFile 28Fxxx,
>   AMD AM29xxxxx, Atmel AT29C040 and Intel StrataFLASH
>
> o Watchdog driver for Intel SA11x0 StrongARM added.
>
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> Red Hat is exhibiting at the Embedded Systems Conference San Francisco,
> from Tuesday April 10th to Thursday April 12th inclusive. Come and see us
> demo RedBoot, eCos, and Embedded Linux on stand 2110! Visit
> http://www.esconline.com/sf/ for more details about the show.
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> We've given parts of the eCos net site - http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/ -
> a new look, particularly the Supported Hardware section, and we've added a
> new area dedicated to RedBoot at http://sources.redhat.com/redboot/
> Let us know what you think!
>
>
> Jonathan Larmour
> eCos Net maintainer
> --
> Red Hat, Rustat House, Clifton Road, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 (1223) 271062