From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gary Thomas To: j.d.charlton@ieee.org Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com, patrick@softprocess.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] Embedded PC SBC Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 00:04:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <200001072009.PAA17407@smtp10.atl.mindspring.net> X-SW-Source: 2000-01/msg00031.html In this case, perhaps you should look into EL/IX which is an effort by Cygnus to bridge exactly this gap. http://sourceware.cygnus.com/elix/ On 07-Jan-00 j.d.charlton@ieee.org wrote: > Patrick and ecos-discuss, > > Thanks, I thought I had looked at the cygnus site more carefully, > but there it is. I am beginning to think that RTLinux may serve my > needs a bit better for the embedded PC since I am developing a > monitor/control application in Linux. So I am looking into that also. > > --John > > > On 7 Jan, Patrick O'Grady wrote: >> >> Hi, J.D.: >> >> I posted an i386/PC HAL package; >> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ecos/contrib.html has a pointer to it. The >> last time I updated it was the end of October, so don't be suprised if the >> eCos source code has changed quite a bit--installation might not be as >> straightforward as before. I'm actually planning on updating to the >> current CVS version next week. Look out for a bug somewhere in the mutex >> handling code: I'm sure it's related to the interrupt handler code. Stay >> tuned for that fix. But in the meantime, that package allows you to >> construct a GDB stub on a floppy disk, so you just boot from that and then >> connect to the debugger from COM1. If you have any significant problems, >> just e-mail questions to this list, that way everyone benefits from the >> discussion. Cheers! >> >> -patrick >> patrick@softprocess.com >> >> > >