[ECOS] FW: eCOsPro - is it worth the money

[ECOS] FW: eCOsPro - is it worth the money

[Anders Olsen]

 
Hi

We're small development team looking at the eCOS OS. As far as we can
see, the source code available in the CVS is quite old and we have to
buy the eCOSPro package from eCosCentric in order to get sourcecode
there is up-to-date.

Is the eCOSPro worth the money or not....  


Or is we missing something....




Best regards

Anders Olsen

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Re: [ECOS] FW: eCOsPro - is it worth the money

[Gary Thomas]

Anders Olsen wrote:
>  
> Hi
> 
> We're small development team looking at the eCOS OS. As far as we can
> see, the source code available in the CVS is quite old and we have to
> buy the eCOSPro package from eCosCentric in order to get sourcecode
> there is up-to-date.

I beg to differ; the CVS is fully up to date.  There may be offerings
(targets and features) which eCosPro has that aren't available, but
AFAIK, nothing that makes the CVS out of date...

> Is the eCOSPro worth the money or not....  

It depends.  eCosPro would be indicated if:
   * You need a target or feature that they provide not in CVS
   * You want paid technical support

What target are you looking at?
What features do you need?

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RE: [ECOS] FW: eCOsPro - is it worth the money

[Anders Olsen]

 
The target is a ST based ARM (STR71x  ARM7TDMI). Well we have the eCOS
running on the target basically en has started writing drivers for our
platform (I2C, SPI, , Realtime, Atmel Dataflash...) 


But when looking at the JIFFS2 filesystem, it requires Flash drivers V2.
But Flash driver V2 seams not to be available in the CVS.


Another point by eCOSPro is that i contains a more stable version of the
JIFFS2 filesystem, than the one available  through CVS.



Anders



-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com] 
Sent: 7. april 2008 18:43
To: Anders Olsen
Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [ECOS] FW: eCOsPro - is it worth the money

Anders Olsen wrote:
>  
> Hi
> 
> We're small development team looking at the eCOS OS. As far as we can 
> see, the source code available in the CVS is quite old and we have to 
> buy the eCOSPro package from eCosCentric in order to get sourcecode 
> there is up-to-date.

I beg to differ; the CVS is fully up to date.  There may be offerings
(targets and features) which eCosPro has that aren't available, but
AFAIK, nothing that makes the CVS out of date...

> Is the eCOSPro worth the money or not....  

It depends.  eCosPro would be indicated if:
   * You need a target or feature that they provide not in CVS
   * You want paid technical support

What target are you looking at?
What features do you need?

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MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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Re: [ECOS] FW: eCOsPro - is it worth the money

[Tom Deconinck]

Flash V2 is available in CVS on it's own branch.
You can easily merge in those changes with the latest trunk sources.

Just checkout the latest from the trunk and
replace the following directories with their flash_v2 counterparts:
io/flash
dev/flash
redboot
fs/jffs2

Tom

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Anders Olsen <aol@sagio.com> wrote:
>
>  The target is a ST based ARM (STR71x  ARM7TDMI). Well we have the eCOS
>  running on the target basically en has started writing drivers for our
>  platform (I2C, SPI, , Realtime, Atmel Dataflash...)
>
>
>  But when looking at the JIFFS2 filesystem, it requires Flash drivers V2.
>  But Flash driver V2 seams not to be available in the CVS.
>
>
>  Another point by eCOSPro is that i contains a more stable version of the
>  JIFFS2 filesystem, than the one available  through CVS.
>
>
>
>  Anders
>
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com]
>  Sent: 7. april 2008 18:43
>  To: Anders Olsen
>  Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
>  Subject: Re: [ECOS] FW: eCOsPro - is it worth the money
>
>  Anders Olsen wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi
>  >
>  > We're small development team looking at the eCOS OS. As far as we can
>  > see, the source code available in the CVS is quite old and we have to
>  > buy the eCOSPro package from eCosCentric in order to get sourcecode
>  > there is up-to-date.
>
>  I beg to differ; the CVS is fully up to date.  There may be offerings
>  (targets and features) which eCosPro has that aren't available, but
>  AFAIK, nothing that makes the CVS out of date...
>
>  > Is the eCOSPro worth the money or not....
>
>  It depends.  eCosPro would be indicated if:
>    * You need a target or feature that they provide not in CVS
>    * You want paid technical support
>
>  What target are you looking at?
>  What features do you need?
>
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>  ------------------------------------------------------------
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>  MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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RE: [ECOS] FW: eCOsPro - is it worth the money

[Anders Olsen]

 Hi

Thanks - We will try this...


Anders

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Deconinck [mailto:t.deconinck@gmail.com] 
Sent: 8. april 2008 08:48
To: Anders Olsen; ecos-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [ECOS] FW: eCOsPro - is it worth the money

Flash V2 is available in CVS on it's own branch.
You can easily merge in those changes with the latest trunk sources.

Just checkout the latest from the trunk and replace the following
directories with their flash_v2 counterparts:
io/flash
dev/flash
redboot
fs/jffs2

Tom

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Anders Olsen <aol@sagio.com> wrote:
>
>  The target is a ST based ARM (STR71x  ARM7TDMI). Well we have the 
> eCOS  running on the target basically en has started writing drivers 
> for our  platform (I2C, SPI, , Realtime, Atmel Dataflash...)
>
>
>  But when looking at the JIFFS2 filesystem, it requires Flash drivers
V2.
>  But Flash driver V2 seams not to be available in the CVS.
>
>
>  Another point by eCOSPro is that i contains a more stable version of 
> the
>  JIFFS2 filesystem, than the one available  through CVS.
>
>
>
>  Anders
>
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com]
>  Sent: 7. april 2008 18:43
>  To: Anders Olsen
>  Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
>  Subject: Re: [ECOS] FW: eCOsPro - is it worth the money
>
>  Anders Olsen wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi
>  >
>  > We're small development team looking at the eCOS OS. As far as we 
> can  > see, the source code available in the CVS is quite old and we 
> have to  > buy the eCOSPro package from eCosCentric in order to get 
> sourcecode  > there is up-to-date.
>
>  I beg to differ; the CVS is fully up to date.  There may be offerings

> (targets and features) which eCosPro has that aren't available, but  
> AFAIK, nothing that makes the CVS out of date...
>
>  > Is the eCOSPro worth the money or not....
>
>  It depends.  eCosPro would be indicated if:
>    * You need a target or feature that they provide not in CVS
>    * You want paid technical support
>
>  What target are you looking at?
>  What features do you need?
>
>  --
>  ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
>  MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
>  ------------------------------------------------------------
>
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> http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos
>  and search the list archive: 
> http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
>
>

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