From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: Chris Gray <gray@acunia.com>
Cc: eCos discussion <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Advice for student project
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B6ACB5D.4B836CCA@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B6A9683.E4878B47@acunia.com>
Chris Gray wrote:
>
> Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>
> >
> > If you don't have any device dependencies (at first), the Linux synth
> > target is a fine place to start. The iPaq is a sexy looking choice for
> > demos.
>
> The iPAQ can also be seen as resembling forthcoming PDAs, 3G mobile
> phones, etc.. Elsewhere in this company there are people wrestling with
> WinCE / Creme in order to demonstrate our telematics framework. I am
> hoping (nay, I am confident) that we can demonstrate something which
> beats that on every front, using outr own VM and eCos.
And a lot cheaper too (both upfront and royalty), and smaller (resource
footprint) as well as having full control over the sources.
> One thing we do need is IP connectivity. IIRC the synthetic target
> doesn't have that. I'm assuming that dial-up PPP over a PCMCIA
> modem on the iPAQ will work.
There isn't PPP support in eCos I'm afraid. There _is_ compact flash
ethernet support for the iPAQ however.
Jifl
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-03 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-02 1:54 Chris Gray
2001-08-02 10:08 ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-08-03 8:57 ` Chris Gray
2001-08-03 9:03 ` Jonathan Larmour [this message]
2001-08-14 0:36 ` Chris Gray
2001-08-03 9:05 ` Chris Gray
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