From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28248 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 2005 11:35:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 28220 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jun 2005 11:35:31 -0000 Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il (HELO mtaout4.012.net.il) (84.95.2.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:35:31 +0000 Received: from ARIEEL ([80.179.11.31]) by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with SMTP id <0IHT000SNEYZQK50@i_mtaout4.012.net.il> for ecos-maintainers@sources.redhat.com; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:37:48 +0300 (IDT) Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:35:00 -0000 From: Arie Elias Subject: eCos on NIOS II (Altera) processor To: ecos-maintainers@sources.redhat.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1255 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Hello, My name is Arie Elias and I am the director of SW development in Iamba Networks. We are using the Altera's Stratix II FPGA with NIOS II. I found out that there is a porting of the eCos RTOS on the NIOS II processor. I tried to trace your FAQ but I have some preliminary questions, for example: 1. The RTOS is royalty-free and license-free so from what "paths" your make the money? 2. If it is from maintenance, is there a way to get from you an assistant directly, an expert engineer that will build for us the initial environment? 3. What about a maintenance support in the long run? 4. How much time is needed to establish a working environment on the NIOS II (Stratix II)? 5. You mentioned that eCos is not Linux! Is it close to Linux concept or to general concept of RTOS like lets say VxWorks? Is it having a virtual memory management like linux or common one like standard RTOS? (I specially want to "feel" the hardware so linux is really frighten me with its memory virtualization) 6. About the TCP/IP stack - do you know about SIP stack (Voice Over IP) that running on your TCP/IP stack? 7. Is the TCP/IP stack supporting DNS Client, SNMP-v3, IGMP-v3 and TLS (or other openSSL)? 8. What about the IDE environment" Do I use Altera's environment? 9. What about debugging? Do I use the Altera's environment? What about kernel awareness in the debugger? 10. Is the eCos using the Altera's HAL? Altera's environment to get all the information about the HW directly? 11. Do you have any users that I can ask about their experience with this RTOS? In Israel or maybe in other places. 12. What about footprint of the eCos environment for the NIOS II? 13. Benchmarks? 14. Do you have a comparison document to other RTOSes running on the NIOS like: ucLinux, Nucleus, MicroC-OS-II, etc? These are very preliminary questions but we are here in a very advanced stage and I just now found out your RTOS and it seems very interesting. In this case I will appreciate if you can answer me ASAP. Thanks a lot, _______________________________________ Arie Elias Director, Software Development Iamba Technologies Ltd. Tel: +972-9-7400899ý, (ext. 120) Fax: +972-9-7400886 Mobile: +972-54-5565657 Arie_Elias@iamba.com http://www.iamba.com _______________________________________ Arie Elias Director, Software Development Iamba Technologies Ltd. Tel: +972-9-7400899ý, (ext. 120) Fax: +972-9-7400886 Mobile: +972-54-5565657 Arie_Elias@iamba.com http://www.iamba.com