Jungo Software has added PowerPC driver capabilities to its cross-platform development tools for Linux. WinDriver is a graphical tool that creates user-space drivers that are portable across a number of OSes. WinDriver supports building drivers for USB as well as various PCI implementations, including CardBus, ISA, PMC, PCI-X, and CompactPCI.

According to Jungo, WinDriver for Linux supports any single-processor or SMP Linux kernel 2.0.31 and above, including kernel 2.6. It supports any embedded Linux development environment based on C or Delphi. It can be used to create drivers that support I/O, DMA, interrupt handling, and access to memory mapped cards. Driver applications are source-code compatible across Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/XP Embedded/Server 2003/CE, Linux, Solaris, and VxWorks.

WinDriver provides graphical development environments, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), hardware diagnostic utilities, and samples, Jungo says.

Ophir Herbst, general manager of Jungo's Software Tools Division, said, “Supporting PowerPC under Linux complements the WinDriver product line, serving a broader range of customers who wishes to overcome the development-intensive bottleneck of driver development.”

 
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