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Re: redboot/eCos problem , Thanks
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>
- To: chichun_vong at yahoo dot com dot tw
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:57:41 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] redboot/eCos problem , Thanks
- References: <20030415020744.56063.qmail@web16613.mail.tpe.yahoo.com>
chichun_vong at yahoo dot com dot tw wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to redboot/ecos system.
> Is eCos a kernel?
You could say that. It can be more or less than what other people consider
to be a kernel too!
> Can i use redboot as boot-loader
> to load linux kernel(may be a open source distribution
> but ecos)at run time.
eCos is not linux. RedBoot can boot both Linux and eCos applications
though, at least on most architectures that support Linux booting anyway.
> If there's a device driver needed
> to be support in redboot and this driver need some
> linux system call support like thread/mutex/semaphore.
RedBoot would just load and run Linux. Once Linux runs it takes over
everything and handles all system calls itself.
Jifl
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