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Re: ecos/20864: Bug report form
- To: Ling Su <lingsu at palmmicro dot com>
- Subject: [ECOS] Re: ecos/20864: Bug report form
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 19:12:54 +0100
- CC: alexs at redhat dot com, ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <NCBBKJPHEKGAJNNFGNBLKEHJFAAA.alexs@redhat.com> <00c401bfcfe1$73d4cb60$6500a8c0@raccoon>
Ling Su wrote:
>
> Since I am personally playing with a NECVR4373 board, I wonder if I could
> afford the commercially support. Could you please let me know the quote for
> purchasing eCos for vr4373? If it is affordable for me, sure I will turn to
> the commerical product. Please drop me this information.
I'll leave that for Al.
> One more thing, according to my understand, that you are saying that the net
> version ecos doesn't support vr4373, is that correct? But what the webpage
> told me is eCos1.3.1 support vr4373, this is also the reason why I choose
> the vr4373 board. I just choose a MIPS support by eCos, vr4373 is the only
> choice. Is those information wrong? I don't like to feel that the website
> just delivery some untrustable information.
eCos 1.3.1 definitely supports the vr4373. However, as you have
experienced, using the free tools can be troublesome :-/, although they
*should* support the vr4373 and have done so in the past.
> For the toolchain problem, I
> think even I turn to commecial precompiled version, I still want to know how
> to make a version from source. This is Linux people's habit. :)
The precompiled versions still come with the source so you don't need to
worry on that count!
Jifl
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