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
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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
MN10300 stdeval1 board, you will also need:
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One 16550-based serial port on the PC
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A Matsushita MN10300 standard evaluation board with eCos
CygMon
Debug PROMs installed
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One standard modem (straight connection) serial cable to connect the serial port on the PC to the evaluation board. An optional second serial cable can be used for diagnostic I/O.
If you will be using the AM33
STB system reference board, you will also need:
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One 16550-based serial port on the PC
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A Matsushita AM33 STB System Reference Board, with the ability to download using the JTAG debugger. To enable debugging using GDB, the eCos
"
GDB
stubs ROM" will need to have been programmed into the Flash ROM.
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Connection to the host computer should be made using a null modem RS232 serial cable. A gender changer may also be required.
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).