RE: [ECOS] Re: Preliminary questions on eCOS

["JS Stoezel" <js dot stoezel at magellan dot aero>]

Hello,

Thanks for your answer. We have been looking at FreeRTOS and uc/COSII
and where looking for alternate choices, because eCOS comes with added
features (FreeRTOS and uC provide limited services. I will have to take
a look at XMK.

Jean-Sebastien

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org 
> [mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org] On Behalf Of 
> Grant Edwards
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:54 AM
> To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: [ECOS] Re: Preliminary questions on eCOS
> 
> On 2007-03-20, JS Stoezel <js.stoezel@magellan.aero> wrote:
> 
> > I see there is no tool chain for this type of processor (this is 
> > stated here: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ecos/getstart.html).
> > However I can read: "Developers targeting one of the other 
> > architectures must build a toolchain themselves at present.
> > Full instructions for downloading source code and building 
> a toolchain 
> > are available.". Doesn't this mean I can port eCOS to the 
> tool chain I 
> > am using?
> 
> It means that if you want to target an architecture for which 
> there aren't a pre-built gcc/binutils tool-chains, you have 
> to download the gcc/binutils sources and build a tool-chain.
> 
> eCos uses a number of gcc C and C++ extensions as well as 
> some rather unique binutils features. In theory you could 
> port eCos to another tool-chain, but it's going to be tough. 
> People on the mailing list have talked about attempting to do 
> such a port, but I don't think anybody has reported success.
> 
> I'd probably look at other RTOSes (FreeRTOS, XMK, uC/OS-II) 
> before I'd start thinking about porting eCos to a 16-bit 
> processor using a non-gcc tool-chain.  Though if you succeed 
> you'll be the first to do so with either a 16-bit target or a 
> non-gcc tool-chain, and you'll indeed be rolling in geek-points.
> 
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