Olching, Germany — (press release excerpt) — DENX Software Engineering today announced the first release of a new Embedded Linux Development Kit (ELDK). Our ELDK provides a complete and powerful software development environment for Embedded and Real-Time Systems:

This version of ELDK runs on x86/Linux, x86/FreeBSD and on SPARC/Solaris host operating systems and supports a wide range of PowerPC target processors (8xx, 82xx, 7xx, 74xx, 4xx). It consists
of . . .

• Cross Development Tools (Compiler, Assembler, Linker etc.) to develop software for the target system
  
• Native tools (Shell, commands and libraries) that will run on the target system
  
• PPCBoot Firmware that can easily be ported to new boards and processors
  
• Linux kernel including all device drivers, board-support functions etc.
  
• RTAI (Real Time Application Interface) Extension for systems
  requiring hard real-time responses
  
• SELF (Simple Embedded Linux Framework) as a basis on which to build your embedded systems

All components are available with complete source code, most of it under GPL. Also, detailed instructions to rebuild all the tools and packages from scratch are included.

The ELDK can be downloaded via ftp or ordered on CD-ROM for a nominal charge (USD$99). A version of the ELDK for ARM target processors will be available in a couple of days.

 
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