This article by Kevin Dankwardt provides a brief explanation of the process that led to the development of the Embedded Linux Consortium Platform Specification (ELCPS) and a cursory description of its contents. Dankwardt served as a member ELC's working group that developed the ELCPS. Dankwardt writes . . .

“The ELCPS was designed to be an API specification, thus supporting source level portability of applications to different implementations. This design ensures a specification that provides developers of applications and middleware assurance that their products can be recompiled for a large variety of potential embedded Linux targets . . . Further, the API level specification ensures usefulness of the Specification for all potential architectures . . .”

“The specification . . . also gives embedded Linux implementers guidance in the functionality that should be provided. In order to not unduly burden implementers, and creators of resource limited devices, The Standard provides for three successively larger Environments . . .”

“The ELCPS provides a non-controversial and meaningful standard that should be valuable to embedded Linux system implementers and application developers alike.”

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