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Re: Newbie Question
- To: Mont Pierce <Mont at MonteSoft dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Newbie Question
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:43:29 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
These are reasonable goals.
Note: if you are willing to perform these operations "off line", i.e.
while your other application, whatever that is, is not active, then
RedBoot can perform all of these duties, right now, off the shelf :-)
Either way, you'll have no trouble satisfying your needs with eCos.
On 10-Jul-2001 Mont Pierce wrote:
> I hope to use TFTP to upload new code on the fly while the system is running,
> then cause the system to reboot.
>
> Telnet would be used to access on board configuration options. We may
> want to add SNMP later for this, but I hope not.
>
> Thanks
> Mont
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Thomas" <gthomas@redhat.com>
> To: "Mont Pierce" <Mont@MonteSoft.com>
> Cc: <ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 9:54 AM
> Subject: RE: [ECOS] Newbie Question
>
>
>>
>> On 10-Jul-2001 Mont Pierce wrote:
>> > Can anyone give me an idea on how feasible it would be to implement
>> > ECOS in a custom MPC860SAR board with only 2mb Flash and
>> > 4mb SDRAM? I need TCP/IP stack with telnet server and tftp server
>> > over ethernet. I also need some(64k) of the 2mb of Flash to store non-
>> > volatile config data.
>>
>> This should be more than feasible. eCos + RedBoot on such a platform
>> would probably only use <1MB Flash and DRAM each, leaving more than
>> enough room for your program.
>>
>> What sort of data would you want to provide via the TFTP server?
>> What's the purpose of the TELNET server?
>>
>>