From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vishal Kulshrestha To: Mike Friedrichs Cc: eCos Discuss Subject: Re: [ECOS] i386 questions Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 10:23:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <3939383F.BFCE80BB@lcc.net> X-SW-Source: 2000-06/msg00053.html 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.