From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12790 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2005 06:53:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 12753 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Sep 2005 06:53:25 -0000 Received: from ctb-mesg6.saix.net (HELO ctb-mesg6.saix.net) (196.25.240.86) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:53:25 +0000 Received: from office.snowballeffect.net (wblv-146-236-212.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.236.212]) by ctb-mesg6.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC2CCA39 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 08:53:20 +0200 (SAST) Received: (qmail 4490 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2005 10:58:10 +0200 Received: from gawie.devos (HELO GAWIEPC) (10.20.30.18) by 192.168.20.58 with SMTP; 9 Sep 2005 10:58:10 +0200 Reply-To: From: "Gawie de vos" To: , Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:53:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <20050909065320.2BC2CCA39@ctb-mesg6.saix.net> Subject: RE: [ECOS] GSM/GPRS/GPS board supporting eCos (Falcom XF55 or similar) X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00048.txt.bz2 I have one of their XF55 dev kits and it comes with eCos fully ported and some demo applications to get you going very quickly. They made use of the LWIP stack for their TCP/IP functionalities. Cheers Gawie -----Original Message----- From: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org [mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Wolfram Kattanek Sent: 09 September 2005 08:23 AM To: duckman@epilog.ath.cx Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] GSM/GPRS/GPS board supporting eCos (Falcom XF55 or similar) On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 04:48:00 +0100, Carlos Sobrinho wrote: > Em Quinta, 8 de Setembro de 2005 20:52, escreveu: >> Hello Carlos, >> >> Porting eCos to that board is going to be very, very hard. Please check the >> archives from this week and last: someone from Italy already tried to >> modify the eCos installation on the XF55 couldn't do it because 1) Falcom >> won't help you modify the eCos installation on it and 2) Falcom has not >> released the source back to the community. > > I just searched my own archive and the sources.redhat and found some info > regarding the board. In the docs of their eval board, at least in the > website, they say that it now supports ecos 2.0 and they even seem to have > some source code allowing developers to use different firmwares. > > From what I understood, they accept a TCP/IP stack, ecos 2.0 and two other > proprietary firmwares. > >> Finally, it'll be extremely difficult to do your own port because the >> processor on the XF55 is the ARM7TDMI embedded in the GPS' SiRFStar II >> chipset... and SiRF does not release any technical details on their chipset >> without a several thousand dollar development kit and an NDA which will may >> prevent you from releasing any source written for it back to the community. > > My main objective is to: > ** track my position using GPS > ** send it through GSM+GPRS and do some sort of GET or POST > ** sleep for some time(hours/days) > ** consume as little as possible > >> Good luck, >> >> Andrew > > Assuming that the port is already done but they don't release the source, only > a binary to link. > Can this be done? > Are are my options in terms of other boards? Anyone? > > WBR > Sobrinho > As far as I know they sell their eval kit together with a eCos SDK, examples showing how to access and use GPS, GSM and GPRS functions and maybe some versions of FALCOM firmware (FALCOM and SiRF firmware without sources). I think eCos should run "out of the box" (including RedBoot) on a XF55. Data sheets (current consumption etc.) and manuals should be available on their website. Perhaps you should check if their firmware fulfills all your needs. Wolfram -- Wolfram 'L.A.' Kattanek Institut fuer Mikroelektronik- und Email: LA@imms.de Mechatronik-Systeme (IMMS) gGmbH Tel: +49 3677 / 6955-44 Ehrenbergstr. 27 Fax: +49 3677 / 6955-15 98693 Ilmenau / Germany -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss