From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 967 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 2012 15:12:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 956 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Apr 2012 15:12:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from virtual.bogons.net (HELO virtual.bogons.net) (193.178.223.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:12:29 +0000 Received: from jifvik.dyndns.org (jifvik.dyndns.org [85.158.45.40]) by virtual.bogons.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.2) with ESMTP id q33FCR108371; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 16:12:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from shurg.barn.ecoscentric.com (unknown [87.127.120.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jifvik.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A493FE1; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 16:12:27 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4F7B135A.1050505@jifvik.org> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:12:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Fedora/3.1.16-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ferenc Cserepkei Cc: ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: eCos infrastucture howto References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 On 03/04/12 15:06, Ferenc Cserepkei wrote: > Welcome, > might be I am contacing the wrong guys, but readion both ecoscentric > and ecos public documentation i failed to figure out how can i have > aninfrastructure. > I mean > - eCos on the main flash > - a fliesystem (preferabl jjjffs2) on it, > - applications having installed in the main flashh > - boot scripting - ability to start the applications above at boot time > so similar stuff as SVR4 init > such i thing i would like is possible? To be clear, eCos is a single process, multi-threaded real-time operating system. You only run a single application. It can do many things in threads which on other OS's might be different processes, and eCos keeps things light-weight by using threads. You can store more than one application in flash, and use the RedBoot boot firmware to choose which one you want to load and run. RedBoot can manage flash, and run the programs. The flash can also contain a JFFS2 filesystem which your program could load and use. But it doesn't run programs from it. You can also define a boot script in RedBoot for automatic booting. In future, you would be better addressing queries like this to the "ecos-discuss" mailing list: http://ecos.sourceware.org/intouch.html Jifl -- --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine