Hi Mikhail, in which port you are interested? For Xilinx we have made eCos 3.0 port to Microblaze and to Zynq.
> Von: ecos-discuss-ow...@ecos.sourceware.org [mailto:ecos-discuss- > ow...@ecos.sourceware.org] Im Auftrag von Mikhail Matusov > Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2015 14:59 > An: Richard Rauch; ecos-disc...@sourceware.org > Betreff: Re: [ECOS] Re: is eCos dying? > > Hi Richard, > > Could you tell more about your Xilinx port? > > Thanks, > /Mikhail > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Rauch > Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 3:51 AM > To: ecos-disc...@sourceware.org > Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: is eCos dying? > > Hi, > > my opinion is quite differently: > You do not see a lot of activities in the eCos community because of politics > and commercial interests. > > My company was very active in eCos projects (specially porting projects and > development toolchain) within several years. > Beside several application projects based on eCos we have made a couple of > portings to different processor platforms for microcontroller vendors (Atmel, > Xilinx) and OEMs. > > We tried to commit all this ports to the community! Specially one of the > OEMs (Softing AG, Munich) was very active by himself in this commitment > activity as well. > But from eCos maintainer side there is no interest to overtake such ports. > This is just a guess, but in my opinion the reason for this is, that the > maintainers of public eCos are as well strongly commercial oriented. > It seems, they will not put any port to official open source repository if it > could disturb commercial interests (eCosCentric/eCosPro...). > > I will give just one example when we tried to make a port public: > http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001649 > further activities, if you search for in detail: > http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=at91sam9G45 > beside this there was email traffic as well with the maintainers, but finally > there was no success! > > Additionally I need to say, that you will be thwarted, if you try to offer > commercial activities as well. If you are not absolutely carefully about usage > of eCos name and logo, you will get some letters from eCosCentric's lawyer! > > In consideration of our experiences I do not wonder, that the audience is > losing interest in eCos and is searching for alternatives. > We have already customers, who decided against eCos specially because the > fact, that there is dramatically decreasing activity in the community! > > Richard > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------- > > Von: ecos-discuss-ow...@ecos.sourceware.org [mailto:ecos-discuss- > > ow...@ecos.sourceware.org] Im Auftrag von Grant Edwards > > Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2015 17:00 > > An: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org > > Betreff: [ECOS] Re: is eCos dying? > > > > On 2015-10-04, Stanislav Meduna <st...@meduna.org> wrote: > > > On 03.10.2015 10:15, John Dallaway wrote: > > > > > > Hi Abhishek, > > > > > >>> Would it be worth to start learning on eCos or is it dying ?I have > > >>> seen enough activity in 2007 but now it is minimal this year. > > >>> Is it getting outdated? > > > > > >> eCos is not dying, but I would have to agree that there has been > > >> less activity on the mailing lists recently. > > > > > > Well the last commit in http://hg-pub.ecoscentric.com/ecos/ is 5 > > > months old one-liner, followed by a 12 and 15 month old ones, so > > > this is not only on mailing lists. I'd say that while it is still a > > > good OS with clean and easy to use architecture, the open source > > > version basically died and there are parts hopelessly outdated > > > (TCP/IP from > > > ~2000 if I remember correctly etc). > > > > > > I cannot comment on eCosPro, but then you are in a price segment > > > where there are more alternatives to explore. > > > > > >>> should i begin to work using eCos or should i look for other > alternative? > > > > > > It depends on what your short and long-term plans are. Definitely > > > also take a look at FreeRTOS. > > > > I also am commenting strictly on the open-source version, not on > eCosPro... > > > > I've been using eCos since the Cygnus days (around 1999 or so). I've > > been pretty happy with it, but the open-source version is getting pretty > stale. > I'm > > particularly worried about the ancient FreeBSD network stack -- but it > still > > seems to be working OK, knock on wood. > > > > I'm also concerned about what's going to happen when my customers > > starting actually using IPv6 in anger. > > > > Getting the two BSD networks stacks integrated into eCos was an > > impressive feat of engineering. But, a square peg in a round hole is > > still a square > peg in a > > round hole no matter how much you admire the craftsmanship of the > shims. > > > > I've often wished I had a few spare weeks to experiment with LWIP. I > > have the impression that it's a better fit for eCos and would be > > easier to keep current. > > > > If I were starting from scratch these days, I'd probably look first at > something > > other than eCos. I've never needed the full-up POSIX or uItron > > adaptation layers, so for my smaller projects I'd probably lean > > towards something a > little > > lighter-weight like uCos-II/III (not free) or XMK (which also seems to > > be languishing a bit). FreeRTOS would also be at the top of my list > > of > candidates > > -- even though I find the web-site a bit off-putting. I'd probably > > use > Linux for > > bigger, more complex projects that are "not quite as real-time" and > > could benefit from the Unix memory protection and process models. > > > > -- > > Grant > > > > > > -- > > Before posting, please read the FAQ: > > http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos > > and search the list archive: > > http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss > > > > -- > Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos > and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.6140 / Virus Database: 4435/10768 - Release Date: 10/06/15 > > > -- > Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos > and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
