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Re: [lpc2100] LPC2xxx eCOS port

2004-01-05 by Matthias Weingart

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:31:29PM -0000, Hugh O'Keeffe wrote:
>    
>    eCOS is totally free for use in commercial applications, however, you
>    are on your own from a support point-of-view (unless you pay companies
>    for support (e.g ecoscentric.com)).
>    
>    My interest is sparked by the requirement to port an existing eCOS
>    application to LPC2xxxx, hence, using another OS is not an option.

>      
>            My understanding is that eCOS is highly configurable (via
>      GUI) ,
>      footprints < 32K are possible and it is open-source with no
>      up-front/royalty costs.  AFAIK, uC/OS is already ported to LPC2xxx,
>      however, this OS is not open-source and does require an upfront
>      payment
>      (see [4]http://www.ucos-ii.com/).

Does eCos really work on the LPC with just 64kBytes RAM? From
the ecos-mailinglist archive people recommend at least 200kBytes RAM.
Well it is highly configurable, but with half of the memory used by the OS
there is no much room for the application.

M.

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