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RE: Re: Preliminary questions on eCOS
- From: "JS Stoezel" <js dot stoezel at magellan dot aero>
- To: "Grant Edwards" <grante at visi dot com>, <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:57:55 -0500
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Re: Preliminary questions on eCOS
Hello,
Thanks for your answer. We have been looking at FreeRTOS and uc/COSII
and where looking for alternate choices, because eCOS comes with added
features (FreeRTOS and uC provide limited services. I will have to take
a look at XMK.
Jean-Sebastien
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> Grant Edwards
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:54 AM
> To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: [ECOS] Re: Preliminary questions on eCOS
>
> On 2007-03-20, JS Stoezel <js.stoezel@magellan.aero> wrote:
>
> > I see there is no tool chain for this type of processor (this is
> > stated here: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ecos/getstart.html).
> > However I can read: "Developers targeting one of the other
> > architectures must build a toolchain themselves at present.
> > Full instructions for downloading source code and building
> a toolchain
> > are available.". Doesn't this mean I can port eCOS to the
> tool chain I
> > am using?
>
> It means that if you want to target an architecture for which
> there aren't a pre-built gcc/binutils tool-chains, you have
> to download the gcc/binutils sources and build a tool-chain.
>
> eCos uses a number of gcc C and C++ extensions as well as
> some rather unique binutils features. In theory you could
> port eCos to another tool-chain, but it's going to be tough.
> People on the mailing list have talked about attempting to do
> such a port, but I don't think anybody has reported success.
>
> I'd probably look at other RTOSes (FreeRTOS, XMK, uC/OS-II)
> before I'd start thinking about porting eCos to a 16-bit
> processor using a non-gcc tool-chain. Though if you succeed
> you'll be the first to do so with either a 16-bit target or a
> non-gcc tool-chain, and you'll indeed be rolling in geek-points.
>
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