* [ECOS] Hurd, QNX and POSIX
@ 1999-09-23 10:33 Jim Belton
1999-09-28 7:23 ` [ECOS] " Bart Veer
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From: Jim Belton @ 1999-09-23 10:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: eCos Discuss
Stef wrote:
> Could ecos be the microkernel for the hurd, instead of mach ?
Ignoring the technical reasons, the answer is still no. The GNU boys
wouldn't adopt eCos due to the ECPL. They want to GPL the hurd.
> Is it comparable to qnx ?
It's more like QNX neutrino, which is the portable QNX RT kernel.
> Would it be difficult to port posix apps on ecos ?
This depends alot on what hardware you are running eCos on. If you are
asking for the details of which POSIX APIs are supported, perhaps some
one else could post a link. I'd like to know the answer to that as
well. In particular, what level of POSIX.4/pthreads support is
available?
Hope this helps - Jim.
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* [ECOS] Re: Hurd, QNX and POSIX
1999-09-23 10:33 [ECOS] Hurd, QNX and POSIX Jim Belton
@ 1999-09-28 7:23 ` Bart Veer
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From: Bart Veer @ 1999-09-28 7:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jhb; +Cc: ecos-discuss
>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Belton <jhb@microplex.com> writes:
>> Would it be difficult to port posix apps on ecos ?
Jim> This depends alot on what hardware you are running eCos on.
Jim> If you are asking for the details of which POSIX APIs are
Jim> supported, perhaps some one else could post a link. I'd like
Jim> to know the answer to that as well. In particular, what level
Jim> of POSIX.4/pthreads support is available?
The current eCos release does not provide a POSIX compatibility layer.
However Cygnus has just announced the EL/IX initiative, and as part of
this initiative we will be implementing a significant subset of POSIX
on top of eCos. For more details please see
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/elix/
Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer
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