eCosTM User’s Guide

Version 1.2.1


Table of Contents
I. The eCos Configuration Tool
1. Introduction
Invoking the Configuration Tool
Context-Sensitive Help
Graphical Components
2. Configuration Tool Views
Configuration Pane
Rules Help
Properties Table
Documentation Pane
Output Pane
Memory layout
3. Basic Operations
Configuration Tool Data
Searching
The Repository
Persistence
Consistency Rules
View Settings
Tools Options
Building
Executing Tests
Keyboard Accelerators
II. eCos Programming Concepts and Techniques
4. The component repository and working directories
Component repository
Build tree
Install tree
Application build tree
5. Compiler and linker options
Compiling a C application
Compiling a C++ application
6. Debugging techniques
Tracing
Kernel instrumentation
III. Configuration and the Package Repository
7. Manual configuration
Directory Tree Structure
Creating the Build Tree
Building the system
Packages
Coarse-grained configuration
Fine-grained Configuration
Make flags
Editing the sources
Modifying the memory layout
8. Managing the package repository
Package Structure
IV. Special Topics
9. Real-time characterization
Methodology
Using these measurements
Influences on performance
Measured items
Sample numbers