From: Vishal Kulshrestha <vishal@sasi.com>
To: Mike Friedrichs <mike_fr1@lcc.net>
Cc: eCos Discuss <ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] i386 questions
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 10:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10006032234120.26208-100000@sung12.sasi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3939383F.BFCE80BB@lcc.net>
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Mike Friedrichs wrote:
>
> does a 'linux synthetic target' mean that an ecos application will run
> on top of x86 linux. probably sounds elementary but the explanation is
> helpful.
Yes. It builds a linux binary.
>
> if this is the case what is being gained. it seems one of the advantages
> that ecos has is the small foot print for its os, but when you put on
> top of linux you are back to a very large foot print. the smallest linux
> embedded foot print that i've found still needs 2-8 meg of ram.
>
The code will not run in real time(obviously, because it is
running on top of linux which itself is not a real time os). It can
however be used for debugging and unit testing of code.
--Vishal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-03 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-02 19:23 Mike Friedrichs
2000-06-03 0:19 ` Jesper Skov
2000-06-03 9:56 ` Mike Friedrichs
2000-06-03 10:23 ` Vishal Kulshrestha [this message]
2000-06-03 13:34 ` Gary Thomas
2000-06-06 8:08 ` Liviu Ionescu
2000-06-06 8:17 ` Jesper Skov
2000-06-06 8:27 ` Patrick O'Grady
2000-06-06 8:38 ` Liviu Ionescu
2000-06-06 9:35 ` Mike Friedrichs
2000-06-07 9:49 ` Liviu Ionescu
2000-06-07 18:17 ` [ECOS] IDE/ATAPI/FS info? Brett Hackleman
2000-06-03 12:57 ` [ECOS] i386 questions Gary Thomas
2000-06-04 10:11 ` Mike Friedrichs
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