Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software today announced MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 3.0, the next generation of the company's embedded operating system and development platform. The updated package offers enhanced networking capabilities, increased tools coverage, and the latest Linux technology.

The 3.0 release is supplied as both pre-built binaries and as a unified source-base across all supported architectures. The kernel is now based on the 2.4.18 revision of Linux and the development environment features the latest versions of industry-standard GNU tools, GDB 5.2, and GCC 3.2, supported by a rich complement of deployment components. Other new features include improved memory management as well as support for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), and system and user-level event tracing on an expanded number of architectures, and XFS — a high performance journaling file system.

MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 3.0 provides broad support for embedded processor architectures, CPU boards, and software components. It targets more than 25 processors from eight industry-leading architectures, including x86/IA-32, PowerPC, XScale, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS, SH and Xtensa. These CPUs populate the more than 80 boards supported in the release.

The product's cross-development capability includes tools hosted on eight host environments, including Yellow Dog Linux, SuSE, Mandrake, Red Hat, Sun Solaris, and VMWare on Windows NT/2000. Host-based tools and embedded target-based deployment components make up the more than 200 software packages in the release.

With this release, support is expanded for a variety of GNU tool chains based on GDB 5.2 and GCC 3.2. The third generation of the GNU compiler adds a number of per-architecture improvements as well as improved support for C++ standards. The product also expands the existing kernel debug support on x86, PowerPC, MIPS, and SH to include kgdb support for ARM, XScale, and StrongARM cores. It incorporates enhanced cross debugging capabilities, including the addition of remote multi-threaded debugging and the ability to attach and detach from a running process.

The 3.0 release also adds system and user-level event tracing for MIPS, ARM and XScale targets, in addition to the existing support for x86 and PowerPC. The MontaVista Library Optimizer Tool, MontaVista Target Configuration Tool, and scores of other useful applications and utilities further enhance the wide range of industry standard tools included in MontaVista Linux Professional Edition.

Earlier this year, MontaVista Linux Professional Edition was named “Best Embedded Linux Solution” at the New York Linux World and Expo. The product received the Electron d'Or award for “Best Embedded Tool and Development Solution for 2002” from the prestigious French publication Electronique, and the “Readers' Choice Award for “Favorite Embedded Solution 2002” from Linux Journal.

MontaVista Linux 3.0 Professional Edition will be available in December 2002. It is offered as a product subscription which includes the MontaVista Linux kernel, utilities, development tools, software updates, access to the MontaVista Zone (developer website), and access to technical support. Current subscribers of MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1 will be upgraded to version 3.0 at no additional cost.

 
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