From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5434 invoked by alias); 13 Dec 2007 01:48:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 5333 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Dec 2007 01:48:06 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from outgoing3.asmpt.com (HELO aaants127.aaaex.asmpt.com) (202.0.181.227) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:48:02 +0000 Received: from aaants96.aaaex.asmpt.com ([10.1.1.96]) by aaants127.aaaex.asmpt.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:47:57 +0800 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: From: "Loginov Alexander" To: , X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: [ECOS] Is eCos project still alive? X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00044.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20071213025500.tF1PDlTHBsvBSLdFz0S3OjeZg-52h5ZA6EaXgtthvi0@z> Hello guys, We are considering to use e-Cos for our next large project in the area of CNC machine control. I like this RTOS but two things confuse me a lot: 1) The latest release is dated by May 2003. That is 4.5 years ago. According to modern standards in software industry, eCos can be considered as ancient as dinosaurs. Although I see some activity on eCos mailing lists, it doesn't bring a peace to my mind. What happened to eCos? It used to be very active in early 00. Why its releases are not updated? It is quite strange, that ecoscentric commercially distributes a product that is so old. Any success with such a specific business model? 2) eCOS doesn't distinguish between privilege levels. Is there any way to enable it for x86 platform? We need to keep user applications away from the control system core that we would like to run in Ring 0. Thanks in advance for your comments. Best regards, Aelx=20 -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss