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Re: i386 questions
- To: Mike Friedrichs <mike_fr1 at lcc dot net>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] i386 questions
- From: Vishal Kulshrestha <vishal at sasi dot com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 22:51:13 +0530 (IST)
- cc: eCos Discuss <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Mike Friedrichs wrote:
>
> does a 'linux synthetic target' mean that an ecos application will run
> on top of x86 linux. probably sounds elementary but the explanation is
> helpful.
Yes. It builds a linux binary.
>
> if this is the case what is being gained. it seems one of the advantages
> that ecos has is the small foot print for its os, but when you put on
> top of linux you are back to a very large foot print. the smallest linux
> embedded foot print that i've found still needs 2-8 meg of ram.
>
The code will not run in real time(obviously, because it is
running on top of linux which itself is not a real time os). It can
however be used for debugging and unit testing of code.
--Vishal.