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Re: eCos and Embedix


>>>>> "Gregg" == Gregg C Levine <drwho8@worldnet.att.net> writes:

    Gregg> One question: Can binaries built using the synthetic Linux
    Gregg> target, be usable on Embedix? For those of you not familiar
    Gregg> with it, a reasonably well built version of Linux, that
    Gregg> nearly qualifies as a embeddable RTOS system. There are a
    Gregg> few things missing from it, that can, or should be supplied
    Gregg> from eCos.

I am not quite sure what you are trying to achieve here.

The synthetic target is intended purely to facilitate development, by
letting people work with eCos without having to mess about with real
embedded hardware. It should work with pretty much any recent generic
x86-based Linux distribution.

Your message sort of suggests that you are thinking of using the
synthetic target as perhaps a real-time subsystem, running alongside
Linux. Although it should be possible to develop such a subsystem with
eCos, it would require a very different approach from the synthetic
target. In particular, synthetic target applications run as ordinary
user processes with no special access to the hardware or anything
like that. A real-time subsystem would need to run at or below the
Linux kernel level, interacting directly with some of the hardware.

Bart

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