I see you have gotten some answers but I will let you know what I am doing so you know that it is possible. I have 8 PC104Plus form factor Embedded CPUs (from AMPRO computers) that will have 160MBytes of the new FLASH IDE disk (is flash but has the IDE interface so it acts like a hard disk and is a bit bigger than a credit card). I'm currently developing the software with a central computer remotely logging onto these systems via 100BaseTX ethernet (which comes on the the CPU board) and ftp'ing my executables over to the machines. Then I run remotely. When I finish I'll have to have the computers boot and start their programs and RT modules. When this is all finished and integrated (Jan 2000) I plan on writing a paper for the website so that others can see what is possible. My other alternatives were QNX or VXWorks and those are VERY expensive. I was leary of going the RT Linux route because I have some A/D boards stacked on the Emebedded computer and was worried about ethernet support, but I must say that I have gotten very far along without having ever used Linux and not having much UNIX experience. So I'd say it is very doable. Also, there is a company http://www.zentropix.com/ that I talked to about getting an even smaller Kernel. They were very helpful. Janet Estabridis > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Qiang Wang [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 2:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [rtl] RTLinux and single board/chip/cpu embedded system > question. > > Hi, all my dear RTLinux friends, I have a stupid question, > please help me to find the answer or give me a hint, > Thanks so much! > > As we know the current RTLinux Kernel works accompany with the regular > Linux > Kernel as a task in a high end PC platform, I am not quit sure whether > this > RT kernel can be ported to a single board/chip/cpu embedded system? > > Had anyone every ever try to do that? > > Because I want to develop some prototype under RTLinux system but I need > to > move to a single chip embedded system in the end. I wondering if it will > make too much pain to port it if the prototype is under RTLinux, or I have > to > use CMX or QNX since it can not be ported at all. > Had anyone every ever try to do that? > > Please, give me some help. > > have a nice day. > your truly > thomas. > > --- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/~rtlinux/
