ecos on Alpha

ecos on Alpha

[Tim Tenhave]

Hello,

I am a software engineer for Compaq Computer Corp. (formally Digital
Equipment Corp.).  I attended the ESC '98 West last week and learned
about ecos there.  My management and I made contact with you folks and
hopefully will be having more discussions over the next few weeks.  I
have a few questions for this mailing list though...

1.) Has there been or is there any interest in ecos for the Alpha
processor?
 
2.) POSIX is a necessary thing for our current customer base, so work
in this area is important to us, is there currently a POSIX effort 
going on in some way?

3.) Has anyone contacted the list to say that they are working on 
an Alpha port (we are a large company and I have not yet found anyone
else within Compaq-Digital)?

4.) Do you have any sense if the currently available Alpha Linux tools
could
be used as a base to do the Alpha tools porting?  This is in an effort
to 
avoid licensing issues with the shipping Compaq-Alpha tools under other 
operating systems.

5.) We understand that Alpha is not usually considered an embedded
processor,
but we do have various Alpha SBC's.  In your venture in the embedded
market,
is there a target bus architecture that people ask and use more than
most
others?  I ask this question, since it would make sense to pick a
currently
available SBC to do the initial port with, than to also create a special
"eval" board.  This is from my current point of view.  Maybe responses 
to this message will guide us down another road.

Let me say this, this message should in NO way be viewed as an official
statement that Compaq will be supporting ecos on Alpha.  It is just an 
engineer that sees a need (for our custom project business) and a 
possible solution.  

Thanks for any input,

Tim Tenhave
Tim.Tenhave@Digital.com

Re: ecos on Intel CPU

[Red Hat Linux User]

Yes, I'd like see eCos support x86.  Is there any X86 plans in the
works?

Regards,

Steve


Nicolas Thery wrote:
> 
> Tim Tenhave wrote:
> 
> > 1.) Has there been or is there any interest in ecos for the Alpha
> > processor?
> 
> And is there any interest to support the iX86 processors ?
> 
> TIA
> 
> --
> Nicolas Thery            mailto: nicolas.thery@wanadoo.fr
> "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected."
>    (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)

-- 
Stephen Polkowski
Centaur Technology  
Austin, TX
(512) 418-5730

ecos on Intel CPU

[Nicolas Thery]

Tim Tenhave wrote:

> 1.) Has there been or is there any interest in ecos for the Alpha
> processor?

And is there any interest to support the iX86 processors ?

TIA


-- 
Nicolas Thery            mailto: nicolas.thery@wanadoo.fr
"The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected."
   (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)