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Re: ecos update from Redhat
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:35:38AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
[...]
> The old eCos team, ie Jifl, Bart, Gary, Alex, Paul, are still active,
> but are now independent of RedHat. They have there own company,
> ecoscentric, and offer similar services to when they were part of
> RedHat. There are other companies which claim to have eCos knowledge,
> eg www.mind.de, www.navosha.com, a company in India i forget the name
^
http://mind.be (please note .be instead of .de)
> of at the moment,.... So if you need a support contract etc, that is
> not a problem.
[...]
> Im not a marketing person, but i've heard that the prediction that for
> deeply embedded systems, Linux usage will decrease and eCos will
> increase is becoming true.
As stated e.g. in a recent linuxdevices publication, we see this trend
explicitely in projects we sell. Yesterday again, I was talking about a
project where the new ASIC design would include 2 hard cores, one with
the real-time task on eCos and one with another OS. With the advent of
multiple hard- and softcores per system (be it ASIC or high-end FPGA),
I see the trend towards separate real-time OS accelerating (rather
than taking the complexity of trying to do the real-time tasks and
the higher level tasks together on one CPU, with e.g. Linux-RTAI;
Linux-RTAI also has its applications, but for other projects).
[...]
Peter
> Andrew
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