From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jesper Skov <jskov@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 00:19:00 -0000
Message-id: <otsnuv5izu.fsf@thinktwice.zoftcorp.dk>
References: <39386B6E.6B9354A1@lcc.net>
X-SW-Source: 2000-06/msg00051.html

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Friedrichs <mike_fr1@lcc.net> writes:

Mike> anyone, i'm confused about ecos and porting to i386. on the ecos
Mike> home page they make reference to i386 as a supported target, but
Mike> upon viewing posts, it appears that people are building the port
Mike> to i386. which is it.

Both. The synthetic support has been there for a while, but
(relatively) recently Patrick O'Grady contributed a port for x86 PCs.

Mike> i have found the words 'synthetic x86 linux' and synthetic i386'
Mike> for targets; what do these phrases mean.

That you run (eCos) applications on the host platform (i.e., the
synthetic platform HAL provides bindings to the host OS). Only Linux
has a synthetic target support at the moment.

Mike> assuming ecos has not been ported to i386, why has ecos been
Mike> ported to the 'Intel StrongArm family' and not the 'i386
Mike> family'.

Basically because the StrongARM work was funded, whereas nobody has
been interested in funding x86 porting. Presumably because the x86 is
not what you would call a (traditional, low-powered) embedded CPU.

Jesper