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RE: GSM/GPRS/GPS board supporting eCos (Falcom XF55 or similar)


I have one of their XF55 dev kits and it comes with eCos fully ported and
some demo applications to get you going very quickly. They made use of the
LWIP stack for their TCP/IP functionalities.

Cheers
Gawie

-----Original Message-----
From: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org
[mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Wolfram
Kattanek
Sent: 09 September 2005 08:23 AM
To: duckman@epilog.ath.cx
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] GSM/GPRS/GPS board supporting eCos (Falcom XF55 or
similar)

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 04:48:00 +0100, Carlos Sobrinho <duckman@epilog.ath.cx>
wrote:

> Em Quinta, 8 de Setembro de 2005 20:52, escreveu:
>> 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.
>
> I just searched my own archive and the sources.redhat and found some info
> regarding the board. In the docs of their eval board, at least in the
> website, they say that it now supports ecos 2.0 and they even seem to have
> some source code allowing developers to use different firmwares.
>
> From what I understood, they accept a TCP/IP stack, ecos 2.0 and two other
> proprietary firmwares.
>
>> 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.
>
> My main objective is to:
> ** track my position using GPS
> ** send it through GSM+GPRS and do some sort of GET or POST
> ** sleep for some time(hours/days)
> ** consume as little as possible
>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Andrew
>
> Assuming that the port is already done but they don't release the source,
only
> a binary to link.
> Can this be done?
> Are are my options in terms of other boards? Anyone?
>
> WBR
> Sobrinho
>

As far as I know they sell their eval kit together with a eCos SDK,
examples showing how to access and use GPS, GSM and GPRS functions
and maybe some versions of FALCOM firmware (FALCOM and SiRF firmware
without sources). I think eCos should run "out of the box" (including
RedBoot) on a XF55. Data sheets (current consumption etc.) and manuals
should be available on their website. Perhaps you should check if their
firmware fulfills all your needs.

Wolfram
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