Bright Star Engineering Flexanet handheld

The Bright Star Engineering Flexanet handheld platform, based on the Intel StrongARM SA-1110 is supported by both eCos and RedBoot. This port is currently considered to be of Beta quality at this time.

The support for this platform was contributed to eCos, and the eCos maintainers are grateful on behalf of the open source community to all contributors. Note that some contributed ports may not have been tested.

Supported devices

Device drivers are included for:

• Diagnostic (polled) serial I/O
• Interrupt-driven serial I/O
• Ethernet
• FLASH
• USB
• Watchdog

Availability

Hardware

The Flexanet is available from Trend Communications SL at http://www.flexanet.com/.

Software

Source code for both eCos and RedBoot is available publically from eCos releases 2.0 and onwards, as well as from the anonymous CVS repository.

Documentation

Specifications are available for the processor and platform and are available on-line from the manufacturer's web site.

Instructions for installing RedBoot on the Flexanet can be found in the RedBoot User's Guide.

Thanks

Thanks to Jordi Colomer of Trend Communications SL who contributed this port.