Re: [ECOS] Help regarding:installing tftp-hpa on ecos, using lwip instead of the default tcp/ip stack???

[Durgaprasad Chivukula <durgaprasad dot chivukula at gmail dot com>]

Hi ,

  Please reply , if you guys have any idea  about my problem .

1. Whether I can configure ecos and the tftp client & server packages
inside the ecos to use lwip (low weight ip ) instead of the default
tcp/ip stack ???

2.If its possible , please tell me how can I accomplish this .????

I would be thankful for any kind of suggestions

Regards
Durga



On 7/12/05, Durgaprasad Chivukula <durgaprasad.chivukula@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
>  Thanks for the reply
> 
> On 7/12/05, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 13:58 +0200, Durgaprasad Chivukula wrote:
> > > Hi ,
> > >
> > >  I am a newbie to ecos , I installed ecos checked out from the latest
> > > CVS on a PC (i386 ) with redhat linux  9.0 , I have few questions
> > > regarding ecos
> > >
> > > 1.Can I install the tftp-hpa-0.40 package on ecos , if so what changes
> > > I have to do in make file and other files inorder to install.
> > >
> > > 2.The thing is I am taking the (low weight ip) lwip port to ecos and
> > > make the tftp-hpa to use lwip to "get" and "put" files on ecos , is
> > > this possible to do so ? I want to say the tftp-hpa to use lwip ,
> > > instead of the default tcp/ip stack from ecos
> > > How can I accomplish this ? To say it in raw words I want to test
> > > tftp-hpa with lwip and not the default tcp/ip  stack from OS
> > >
> > > I read from the ecos documentation that we can disable a feature and
> > > add new features to ecos , I mean a way of configuring the OS , is
> > > this possible to do so with the problems I mentioned above?
> > >
> > > Please give me some ideas to proceed in my problem.Any kind of
> > > suggestions are welcome
> >
> > Why do you want to install this package?  eCos already has complete
> > TFTP client and server support available.
> 
> The reason , I am installing this package is to get  tftp/udp/ip stack
> running for my embedded system and I want to test this stack
> basically. So I took lwip and then the tftp-hpa and now want to test
> this as a whole whether the tftp -hpa uses lwip or not..?
> 
> Is it possible.. to confugure ecos in such a way that it uses lwip for
> getting and putting files , using the tftp client and server from ecos
> , without the need to install tftp-hpa??? If its possible can I use
> the code that ecos provides for tftp client and server..???
> 
> 
> >
> > To answer the question more directly; porting *any* outside package
> > takes some thought and time.  eCos is *not* Linux, and while it can
> > provide a POSIX environment, building for an embedded system requires
> > tuning of the sources, etc.
> 
>  I read that , ecos is not linux ..., and I did nget the exact meaning
> of the sentence in your reply  " and while it can provide a POSIX
> environment, building for an embedded system requires  tuning of the
> sources, etc. " Can you please clarify..?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
> > MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
>

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