Øyvind Harboe wrote: > On 3/2/07, Ilija Koco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You could use Cygwin X <http://x.cygwin.com/> as an X terminal to your >> Linux machine and get eCos and FPGA together at your desktop. >> I used to use Cygwin X for a long time, because I had some dev tools >> that ran only on Windows. I haven't tried it with eCos configtool, but >> all apps I have tried (Insight, Kdbg, Firefox, etc.) ran without >> problems. > > The problem with Cygwin is that it is a lot of hassle. >From my experience Cygwin X is not a hassle, Cygwin might be hassle for eCos, I haven't tried, I wouldn't judge, but Cyfwin X works pretty well as an X server (terminal), It's part of Cygwin after all, you can install it with the same Cygwin setup tool. > Having a > virtual linux box is also a lot of hassle... You don't need virtual Linux since you can use a real one (and probably multiple users can share single machine if it has enough resources). It can be on other machine, anywhere on net. All you need is a decent TCP/IP connection - I have used it on 10MB/s... once upon a time ;-) > If coLinux was sharpned > quite a few notches(in terms of beating the crap out of Cygwin w.r.t. > installation), it might be a viable option. > >> Of course, still best hit is to convince FPGA vendors to start porting >> their tools to Linux. > > A rather quixotic undertaking! :-) Yes, probably in large companies the managers and not engineers make decisions, but maybe, if there's demand, someone will see competitive advantage in porting tools to Linux.
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