[U-Boot-Users] Running uC/OS-II on top of u-boot

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <16945849.post at talk.nabble.com> you wrote:
> 
> We have a PowerPC 440 EP (from a AMCC Yosemite evaluation kit) and we are in
> the process of evaluating OSes for it. The industrial strength ones (like
> vxWorks) are too much feature-wise and money-wise, so we're hoping to try
> out uC/OS-II. 

Why not using a feature-rich, money-efficient solution like Linux? One
of the big advantages is that you get a running system completely for
free and out of the box...

> - Can the porting layer of uC/OS-II use some of the u-boot functions for PCI
> and ethernet access?

It can, if you use the GPL2 based "Open Source Licensing" model of
uC/OS-II.

> - Are there any existing instructions on how to build (or create a makefile)
> uC/OS-II using the compilers supplied by the ELDK? I keep getting a failure
> to "find entry symbol _start", even if I include the gcc libraries,
> crtbegin.o, etc. 

Well, that's starting to be off topic here...


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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