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Re: Is ecos compatible with linux?
- To: Ausun <ausun at etang dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Is ecos compatible with linux?
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:01:38 +0000
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <002301c0b1e4$a46ef990$03000000@ausun>
Ausun wrote:
>
> Hi, I' m a newbie to ecos. I wonder if ecos is compatible with linux. For example, if I downloaded a small web browser's source for linux, can I make it run properly in an embedded system whose OS is ecos?
eCos is not directly compatible. Red Hat initiated the EL/IX initiative
(see http://sources.redhat.com/elix) to define subsets of the Linux API
that make sense for different classes of embedded devices. eCos is
compatible with level 1 of the EL/IX API, which means that if the
application is written to only use functions in level 1, then it will work.
For a web browser, there is one obvious bit that would not be EL/IX level 1
compatible - the graphical display. How you move forward on that is up to
you.
Jifl
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