Re: Coldfire, RTOS, TCP/IP

Casey  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> enlightened us with:
>
>I have a possible application that seems well-suited for a 5272 or 
>5282.  The production quantity will be very low initially (like 50 
>or so), so of course I'm looking for a good low-cost OS and TCP/IP 
>stack to use.  At first glance, eCos seems promising but I'd 
>appreciate hearing from others with some real experience.  

Sorry I'm a bit late replying, but eCos does indeed support Coldfire, but
not very well in the public version. However eCosCentric (declares
interest: my employer :-)) has a version which has been completely
overhauled and cleaned up, and has been very well tested for the 5272,
and there's the possibility of support for more Coldfire parts soon.

See http://www.ecoscentric.com/ecos/ecospro.shtml which is a bundle
that includes royalty-free redistributable eCos, as well as extras not
found in the public version like a PPP stack and an Eclipse-based
IDE (i.e. project manager, editor, debugger, etc.). All with commercial
support, just like you would want for any RTOS product you wanted to
buy. Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more details.

Sorry about the advert :-).

Jifl
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