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Re: eCos
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 6 Nov 1998 04:47:24 GMT
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Tim L Casey <tcasey@best!ihatespam!.com>
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I will do this port in a month or so. I have too much work to do
currently.
tim
Allen Martin wrote:
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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.
> >
> > More info and downloads:
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> > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ecos/
> >
> > 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 ;^)
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> -Allen
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| (...) I presume egcs is needed for eCos (or at least recommended), which is a shame, coz I tried to build it with H8 support yesterday, and it didn't. I've reported the problem. I may see if I can build eCos with gcc in the meantime... Cheers, Ben. (28 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) 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 (...) (28 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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