San Francisco; Intel Developer Forum — (press release excerpt) — LynuxWorks Inc. today announced that its latest BlueCat Linux will begin shipping for the Intel Internet Exchange Architecture (IXA) Software Developers Kit (SDK) 2.0 for the Intel IXP1200 Network Processor family. BlueCat 4.0 will upgrade the current version of BlueCat which supports the Intel IXA SDK 2.0. Introduced this past November,… BlueCat 4.0 uses the updated 2.4 Linux kernel and tool chain, and offers a fully integrated and tested cross-development environment to facilitate specific development requirements.

The Intel IXA SDK 2.0 provides a hardware and software development environment with a full suite of microengine development tools to harness the power of the Intel IXP1200 Network Processor family and to expedite time-to-market schedules for next generation networking products. The integration of the big-endian version of BlueCat Linux 4.0 into the SDK provides developers with the latest royalty-free, open-source Linux development environment, well suited for the needs of manufacturers developing core and edge networking applications.

 
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