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Re: eCos 3.0 beta 1 now available for download


hello,
        do we have a separate ecos cvs repository for this beta release.
thanks & regards
vibi 

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 08:15 +0000, John Dallaway wrote:
> eCos community
> 
> On behalf of the eCos maintainers, I am pleased to announce that the
> eCos 3.0 beta 1 release is now available for download. This release is
> intended for testing by all eCos developers and incorporates many
> contributions to the public eCos project which have been previously
> available via the CVS repository only. These contributions include:
> 
>   * Cortex-M, FR30 and 68K/ColdFire architectural ports
>   * CAN, I2C, SPI, Framebuffer, disk and ADC infrastructure
>   * Enhanced Flash infrastructure (flash v2)
>   * FAT filesystem
>   * IPsec, PPP, SNTP client, VNC server, and enhanced HTTP server for
>     FreeBSD TCP/IP stack
>   * lwIP lightweight TCP/IP stack
>   * USB serial function driver
>   * Object loader
>   * HAL and driver packages for many new processor variants, target
>     platforms and peripheral devices
> 
> eCos 3.0 beta 1 also includes updated eCos configuration tools which
> extend host platform coverage to GTK+ 2.x on Linux and to Windows Vista.
> 
> We need your help in testing this beta release on a wide variety of
> hardware platforms. To this end, we have prepared a set of testing
> guidelines to assist you in providing the feedback we need:
> 
>   http://ecos.sourceware.org/testing.html
> 
> I would particularly encourage eCos developers who have contributed
> target platform support in the past to test the new release with their
> contributed platform HAL and verify that there are no regressions.
> 
> For testing purposes, eCos 3.0 beta 1 should be used in conjunction with
> the latest eCos toolchains based on GCC 4.3.2 wherever possible.
> Pre-built versions of these toolchains are available for many of the
> popular target architectures (contributed by eCosCentric).
> 
> We plan to keep the beta testing period short with a view to generating
> the eCos 3.0 final release next month (March 2009).
> 
> Both eCos and the pre-built toolchains may be downloaded and installed
> by following the instructions provided at:
> 
>   http://ecos.sourceware.org/getstart.html
> 
> Following installation, please refer to the release notes at
> ecos-3.0b1/README.txt for details of known issues in this release.
> 
> Thank you for your on-going support of eCos.
> 
> John Dallaway
> eCos 3.0 release manager



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