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Re: Linux or ecos?
- From: "Phil Dempster" <p_dempster at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- To: <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:21:04 -0000
- Subject: [ECOS] Re: Linux or ecos?
> The application itself is very simple and only needs access to serial
> devices and to ethernet (with TCP/IP)...
> ...but it should be used as minimum RAM and FLASH as possible.
If you are concerned more about code size than having a full featured TCP/IP
implementation, you might want to look at lwIP
(http://www.sics.se/~adam/lwip/). I have had a quick look at porting this
to eCos (to the stage of getting it to compile) and it seems relatively
straightforward. It is a lot leaner both in terms of footprint and RAM
usage than the eCos net package.
> There is another idea I think of, I want to write source of my
> application POSIX compatible because in future the application will be
> more complex
You need to use the EL/IX eCos template to get the POSIX compatibility
layer. The EL/IX specification can be found at
http://sources.redhat.com/elix/.
Cheers,
Phil.