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uClinux as an Embedded OS on a DSP (Linux Journal)
Michael and Juergen Hennerich
explore the use of uClinux on a DSP platform in a Linux Journal
article.
"A uClinux Blackfin Processor development environment consists
of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC cross compiler) and the binutils
(linker, assembler and so on) for the Blackfin Processor. Additionally,
some GNU tools such as awk, sed, make and bash, plus Tcl/Tk are needed,
although they usually come as part of basic desktop Linux
distributions."
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uClinux as an Embedded OS on a DSP (Linux Journal) Posted Oct 7, 2004 17:28 UTC (Thu) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] eCos (http://ecos.sourceware.org/) is also a good Open Source choice fordeeply embedded systems. It provides a POSIX API, multithreading, but no memory protection or fork(). Alex
uClinux as an Embedded OS on a DSP (Linux Journal) Posted Oct 7, 2004 21:05 UTC (Thu) by ericdujardin (guest, #25277) [Link] ChorusOS (aka Jaluna-1) has both: Posix, threads...; memory protection and fork() are optional.If only it had an (involved) community.
uClinux as an Embedded OS on a DSP (Linux Journal) Posted Oct 8, 2004 6:52 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] Last time I looked at the state of ChorusOS (admittedly a few years back when it was still closed-source and owned by Sun), POSIX was still kind of add-on to the system (and with surprising omissions). To get access to better performance and all features of the system, you had to use the native non-POSIX API. On the other hand, ChorusOS is modular and you can configure variants for both large and small applications, like use or omit memory management as needed.
uClinux as an Embedded OS on a DSP (Linux Journal) Posted Oct 8, 2004 13:52 UTC (Fri) by erich (subscriber, #7127) [Link] Many emebedded systems - where uclinux comes in - can't do fork anyway, lacking an MMU.
uClinux as an Embedded OS on a DSP (Linux Journal) Posted Oct 10, 2004 20:31 UTC (Sun) by jeff@uclinux.org (subscriber, #8024) [Link] Well, yes it can... sort of.
It has vfork() and full pthreads. The limitations are really very
Jeff.
uClinux as an Embedded OS on a DSP (Linux Journal) Posted Oct 8, 2004 7:52 UTC (Fri) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link] Heh, in my course, we have a BlackFin BF-533 EZ-KIT ...
Maybe I should try and play a little with this!
:)
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