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eCos 2.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the ecos-friendly dept.

Jonathan Larmour points out the "release of eCos 2.0, the configurable RTOS for the deeply embedded market. This release features a new licence based on the GPL, but with an exception to make it more suitable for embedded use. It's also now an independent free software project from the original developers Red Hat (which bought Cygnus Solutions) after the development team was canned. Most of the team still work on eCos but for different companies. It also has a wide range of ports but has managed to keep a low profile, which should now change with the new stable release. More at http://ecos.sourceware.org/ "

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  1. RTOS by JohnFluxx · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The main difference between this and linux being that this is a real-time operating system - right?

    Or am I missing something?

  2. Re:More TRON! by torpor · · Score: 3, Interesting


    I've followed iTRON since the 80's, and am an embedded systems programmer who has worked in the States, and I can tell you that iTRON has been promptly forgotten and resurrected in the US embedded world plenty of times. Every few years it is mentioned, or some trade group announces an implementation of an iTRON-derived embedded spec, etc. But it'll never go mainstream in the US.

    The primary reason for US resistance to implementing any of the iTRON protocols is defense. The US embedded market is still dominated by defense contracts and government spending - iTRON is a big no-no in those realms.

    Still, I see the intent of iTRON being accomplished in other ways these days - combine some of the work done on uClinux for example, to get the linux kernel running in MMU-less processors, with a little of the open source zeroconf effort, and its feasible to build iTRON-like devices.

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  3. I Wonder... by GypC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Would this be a suitable platform to use as a base for experimental operating systems? Like, embed a lisp system and base all the higher-level OS functions on lisp?

  4. Re:C++ and Kernel Coding by __past__ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If someone would find a proof that C++ is a practical language for anything else but lowest-level programming, then I'd be impressed.

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  5. Re:C++ and Kernel Coding by Markus+Registrada · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I see that you haven't found the Boost library yet.

    Lambda library, compile-time parser generator library, graph algorithms, regular expressions, safe threads, and on and on.