eCosCentric announced that eCos 2.0 is now available for free download and on CDROM. The latest release supports 74 evaluation and development platforms and includes processor support for ARM (including StrongARM and XScale), SuperH, Intel x86 (IA32), PowerPC, MIPS, Matsushita AM3x, Motorola 68K/Coldfire, SPARC, Renesas H8/300H and NEC V850, the company said.

According to the announcement of eCos 2.0, key enhancements are in the areas of . . .

• RedBoot, the open source bootstrap and debug firmware based on eCos
• A choice of TCP/IP stacks including options for BOOTP/DHCP, DNS, TFTP/FTP, SNMP, IPv6 and HTTPD
• RAM, ROM and flash file systems
• Power management support
• USB slave support
• A POSIX-compatible API
• Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support

All tools needed to evaluate eCos install directly from the CDROM and need no further configuration, eCosCentric said.

 
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