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Re: GSM/GPRS/GPS board supporting eCos (Falcom XF55 or similar)
- From: Andrew Greenberg <andrew at psas dot pdx dot edu>
- To: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:05:51 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] GSM/GPRS/GPS board supporting eCos (Falcom XF55 or similar)
Hello Carlos,
Porting eCos to that board is going to be very, very hard. Please check the
archives from this week and last: someone from Italy already tried to
modify the eCos installation on the XF55 couldn't do it because 1) Falcom
won't help you modify the eCos installation on it and 2) Falcom has not
released the source back to the community.
Finally, it'll be extremely difficult to do your own port because the
processor on the XF55 is the ARM7TDMI embedded in the GPS' SiRFStar II
chipset... and SiRF does not release any technical details on their chipset
without a several thousand dollar development kit and an NDA which will may
prevent you from releasing any source written for it back to the community.
Good luck,
Andrew
At 08:39 PM 9/8/2005 +0100, Carlos Sobrinho wrote:
Hello, just doing a pool on a good board supporting gsm+gprs+gps that is
supported by eCos or could easily be ported. Also the current consumption
should be minimal so maybe a ARM would be better
I'm planning in using a Falcom XF55 eval board.
Any thoughts? Suggestions?
WBR
Carlos Sobrinho
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