MEN Micro has joined a MontaVista program that lets IHVs (independent hardware vendors) create and self-certify BSPs (board support packages) that can qualify for the same support terms from MontaVista as MontaVista's own internally created BSPs, or “LSPs” (Linux support pacakges) as MontaVista terms them.

MEN says it is among the first European IHVs to join MontaVista's LSP Certification Program, which MontaVista first announced in late March. The MontaVista program centers around a Board Support Tool (BST) that IHVs use to test, verify, package, and certify BSPs. MEN says it will use BST to produce MontaVista Linux Professional Edition BSPs for its ESM Embedded System Modules (one of which is pictured above), as well as its VMEbus and CompactPCI based SBCs (single board computers).

“We will soon demonstrate our first board with MontaVista Linux, one of the world's first designs with the MPC8560 PowerQuicc III processor from Freescale Semiconductor, implemented on an ESM Embedded System Module,” said MEN Marketing Director Barbara Schmitz.

 
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