Re: [ECOS] Any shell available?

["Tang Yi" <yitang at itee dot uq dot edu dot au>]

Hi Gary Thomas,

Thank you for replying me.

But I don't quite agree with you. Since some of the guys in our group is 
deeply involved in uclinux and from their point of view, a shell is quite 
important for embeded linux systems.

And it provide:

1. The ability to interact with the system in real-time. This is useful for 
checking the system status, experimenting, testing, copying files into the 
system, etc.

2. A lot of shells can also be used as a programming language (e.g. bash). 
The programs are usually quite simple (e.g. deciding what programs to run at 
system startup), but can also get quite complex.

Maybe your view is true for the traditional embedded systems, but for some 
fancy embedded systems nowadays, they do focus a lot on the interface 
between humans and machines.

And I found ecos provide an package which support the GUI interface of 
microwindows, maybe that's a good substite for simple shell. But I wonder 
whether all the targets support microwindows?

Regards,
Yi Tang

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Thomas" <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: "Tang Yi" <yitang@itee.uq.edu.au>
Cc: <ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Any shell available?


> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:27 +1000, Tang Yi wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I want to enquire if there is any shell or command-line support for 
> > run-time
> > development available for ecos. There might be some for the Linux
> > compatibilty package, but what if I do not include the linux 
> > compatibility
> > package?
>
> The idea of a "shell" doesn't really fit in with an embedded system.
> eCos is built to serve a single application - tuned for whatever you
> need.  It is expected that once this application is started, that's
> what the system runs.
>
> RedBoot, the "ROM" monitor, does allow for some interactive uses,
> loading of applications, etc.
>
> Can you explain more about what you wanted a shell for?
>
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