RE: [ECOS] Is eCos project still alive?

RE: [ECOS] Is eCos project still alive?

[Loginov Alexander]

Hi Klaus,

Thanks. Of course, I studied it before I sent my question to the mailing
list. That web-site is great but it doesn't provide the answer why fresh
e-cos release is on hold.

Regards,
Alex 

________________________________________
From: Klaus Nji [mailto:makaveli_0000@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:50 AM
To: Loginov Alexander; ecos-discuss@sourceware.org;
ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Is eCos project still alive?

Loginov, 

Yes, eCos is alive and well. 

Check http://www.ecoscentric.com/

Cheers,

Klaus
----- Original Message ----
From: Loginov Alexander <aloginov@asmpt.com>
To: ecos-discuss@sourceware.org; ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:47:57 PM
Subject: [ECOS] Is eCos project still alive?

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 

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RE: [ECOS] Is eCos project still alive?

[Loginov Alexander]

Hi Klaus,

Thanks. Of course, I studied it before I sent my question to the mailing
list. That web-site is great but it doesn't provide the answer why fresh
e-cos release is on hold.

Regards,
Alex 

________________________________________
From: Klaus Nji [mailto:makaveli_0000@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:50 AM
To: Loginov Alexander; ecos-discuss@sourceware.org;
ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Is eCos project still alive?

Loginov, 

Yes, eCos is alive and well. 

Check http://www.ecoscentric.com/

Cheers,

Klaus
----- Original Message ----
From: Loginov Alexander <aloginov@asmpt.com>
To: ecos-discuss@sourceware.org; ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:47:57 PM
Subject: [ECOS] Is eCos project still alive?

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 

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[ECOS] Re: Is eCos project still alive?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-12-13, Loginov Alexander <aloginov@asmpt.com> wrote:

> Thanks. Of course, I studied it before I sent my question to the mailing
> list. That web-site is great but it doesn't provide the answer why fresh
> e-cos release is on hold.

The support model is different now. 

The commercial group at RedHat who used to do "releases" of
eCos was dissolved.  eCosCentric has since been formed to
provide commercial support for eCos with a product called
eCosPro (which is based on periodic snapshots of the publically
available CVS tree).

You're more than welcome to fund a group of developers to do
the work that was involved in doing an eCos "release", but the
lack of "releases" isn't really stopping anybody from using or
developing eCos.

-- 
Grant Edwards



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[ECOS] Is eCos project still alive?

[Loginov Alexander]

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 

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[ECOS] Is eCos project still alive?

[Loginov Alexander]

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 

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