Required
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Standard Intel
architecture PC running Linux (tested on Red Hat Linux distributions 5.0-6.1). Other versions of Red Hat distributions, or Linux distributions from other vendors should work as well. Also, English or Japanese versions of Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0 (service pack 3 or above must be installed), Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows 2000.
Sun
workstation running Solaris 2.5.1 or later for the SPARC
.
Support for any platform except for Windows NT 4.0 and Solaris 2.5.1 is beta. In particular, it is only possible to rebuild the GNUPro compiler toolchain on Windows NT 4.0, Solaris 2.5.1, and Linux.
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Enough
disk space for the installed distribution. The eCos installation process will detail the various components of eCos and the GNUPro toolkit that can be installed, and their disk space requirements.
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64MB of RAM and a 350MHz or faster Pentium processor.
If you are downloading the eCos Net Release distribution from Red Hat's Sourceware site, you will also need space to store that image and to compile GNUPro and eCos from source.
If you will be using the
PowerPC Cogent board, you will also need:
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One 16550-based serial port on the PC
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Cogent CMA101/102 evaluation board with a CMA287-23 (MPC823), CMA287-50 (MPC850), or CMA286-60 (MPC860) daughterboard and eCos
"GDB stubs" ROM installed. Information and online manuals for the Cogent board can be found at http://www.cogcomp.com/.
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Serial cable to connect the serial port on the PC to the RJ-11 serial I/O connector, P12 (CMA101) or P3 (CMA102), on the evaluation board.
If you will be using the
PowerPC MBX860 board, you will also need:
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One 16550-based serial port on the PC
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Motorola PowerPC MBX860 evaluation board and eCos
"
GDB stubs" ROM installed.
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Suitable serial cable to connect the serial port on the PC to the SMC1/COM1 connector on the evaluation board.
If you will be using the
Linux synthetic target, you will also need:
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An ix86 PC with an installed Linux distribution (tested with Red Hat Linux distributions 5.0 - 6.1).