From: Gary Thomas <gthomas@redhat.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 13:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.000603143431.gthomas@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3939383F.BFCE80BB@lcc.net>
On 03-Jun-00 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.
>
> 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.
>
This _is_ the case. The advantage is that you can write and test your
eCos application, on your desktop, and then deploy it to your embedded
environment. While not everything can be tested in this mode, a lot of
the preliminaries can be. A useful "stepping stone".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-03 13:34 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
2000-06-03 13:34 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
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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