From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" To: Gary Thomas Cc: eCos Disuss Subject: Re: [ECOS] network support Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 06:43:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010130093013.00b19e20@larwe.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010130091923.00b156f0@larwe.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-01/msg00476.html > >> > I'm using the distribution version (v1.3.1 release for eCos and > >> > >>incredibly old - in fact, I don't even think they have network support > >>for the Cirrus Logic board in them (they date from March 2000 or so)!! > > > > They don't have any network support in them at all, I understood that was > > in the net-1.0b1 archive. I have that installed, but haven't tried to do > >The net.epk file will add the basic networking, but I'm pretty sure that it >does not add any/all of the drivers for the various architectures. Well, when I added it (manually, it wouldn't work with the graphical configuration tool), I got a new package "Cirrus Logic ethernet driver", description "Ethernet driver for Cirrus EDB7xxx development boards". > > now; I haven't yet been able to compile anything I ever downloaded > using CVS). > >Have you actually tried building eCos from anonCVS (or is this just your >experience in general)? Most of our users are using anonCVS and I know of >no problems with it. Well, it is my experience in general. When I was trying to get a working set of ARM tools to compile eCos, I tried getting all the latest - gcc as well as eCos - and failed miserably with all sorts of errors I didn't have time to analyze. I prefer to wait for someone to archive up his working source tree, call it a snapshot, and make it available for download. It also means I don't have to wrestle with the cvs client program. The eCos version I'm running brings up the board OK, and that's good enough for the working demo I need to show next week. I've been working on optimizing my DOS and ISO9660 filesystems, and porting my JPEG and MPEG-1 decoders, and that has kept me happily occupied. The product I'm working on right now is the low-end version that doesn't use networking, so I don't see any reason to try to jump through blazing hoops to get the latest greatest eCos version downloaded and working. It will probably go to manufacturing with 1.3.1 in it. The higher-end versions with Ethernet.. well, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. === Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (Embedded Engineer) Work: http://www.digi-frame.com/ Personal: http://www.zws.com/ and http://www.larwe.com/ "Und setzet ihr nicht das Leben ein, Nie wird euch das Leben gewonnen sein."