Re: [ECOS] ECOS - MIPS

["K. Sinan YILDIRIM" <sinany@beko.com.tr>]

 i wont make it configurable with make files. i would use object oriented
 configurabilitiy.  just inspect Java.

you register classes, you program for interfaces, you use abstract classes.

just inspect bridge or adapter pattern. you will understand me.



> Perşembe 23 Haziran 2005 10:02 öö tarihinde, Andrew Lunn şunları yazmıştı:
> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:27:32AM +0300, K. Sinan YILDIRIM wrote:
> > > People may have positive and negative comments about a SW product. Does
> > > this group for only positive ones ? Or only positive questions ?
> > >
> > > I have been writing SW for about 10 years. I have just examined eCOS
> > > and found that it is configurable on some way and unconfigurable ( hard
> > > to reconfigure ) on some way. May be it is much more configurable than
> > > the existing ones but not a super really configurable OS.
> > >
> > > I am the user. This is a user point of view . Having a seperate HAL
> > > layer or a structured file tree doesnt make an operating system really
> > > configurable. Configurability means to change the operating system
> > > according to your needs in a quick way : not being able to change it in
> > > a month...
> > >
> > > configurable modern SW is done with SW patterns. Architectural and
> > > Design patterns makes SW configurable, easy to change, etc... Embedded
> > > SW needs good architectural design with really reusable architectural
> > > and design patterns. What makes JAVA popular is these points. It is a
> > > programming framework that fullfills these points.
> > >
> > > eCOS is  not a really framework. When you read the documentation, it
> > > seems to be an OS framework but indeed it doesn't.
> > >
> > > What i try to mean is we must make it better in order to make it usable
> > > in the future.
> >
> > Could you give some examples of what you would change?
> >
> >         Thanks
> >                 Andrew


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