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Re: eCos/RedBoot question
- To: Stijn Symons <stijn dot symons at acunia dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] eCos/RedBoot question
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:42:33 +0100
- CC: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <3B7261D9.B34A6A79@acunia.com>
Stijn Symons wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> we are two students working on a project on eCos. We have been reading
> the manual on both eCos and RedBoot, but we're a bit confused.
>
> 1. Is RedBoot just a bunch of tools for eCos?
http://sources.redhat.com/redboot/
> 2. When we install RedBoot on an iPAQ (binaries taken from the redhat
> site), does it automatically install eCos with it?
No. RedBoot is an application based on eCos code. It is not eCos. But it
does make it easy to run eCos applications (which are your applications,
linked with the eCos runtime).
Jifl
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