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RE: eCos
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 6 Nov 1998 03:54:45 GMT
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Allen Martin <arm@rendition.com^Spamless^>
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> As some of you will already know, Cygnus has just released eCos, the
> embedded Cygnus operating system. If you like egcs and want your very own
> OS on the RCX, this is worth a look. At first glance it seems really big,
> but it's built so you can just get the bits you want.
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> More info and downloads:
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> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ecos/
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> Currently supported targets are Matsushita MN10300, Toshiba TX39 and
> PowerPC MPC860. Anyone interested in adding H8 support?
I was at the Embedded Systems conference today and I stopped by the Cygnus
booth. I brought up the subject of LEGO Mindstorms and the engineer I was
talking to seemed very interested. He didn't realize how much reverse
engineering work had already been done, so I pointed him to the web page.
Anyway, he said it should be pretty straightforward to port eCos to the
H8/RCX and said a minimal kernel with memory management, scheduler,
synchronization, and exception handling could be about 4k code / 4k data.
I briefly looked at the configuration program and there are a *lot* of
options you can turn on at the cost of extra memory usage. It sure would be
cool to run a network stack using the IR link and have a web browser on my
RCX though (kidding ;^)
-Allen
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| I will do this port in a month or so. I have too much work to do currently. tim (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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