OpenEmbedded features

[Martyn Welch]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:10:06 -0800 (PST)
badeguruji <badeguruji at yahoo.com> wrote:
> how would you compare OpenEmbedded to eCos?
> 

I think that's a little like comparing a bag of apples (including the bag) to an orange segment.

OpenEmbedded usually uses the Linux kernel (can it use others?) at it's heart, so the question how would you compare Linux to eCos would probably be better. However even that would be very difficult and subjective to answer without knowing much more about what you want to do and with what hardware.

I'm not sure this is the right forum to have this kind of discussion (though I may be wrong). 

> for a specific project to build an OS with minimal power requirement. [fanless design]. which would be better? eCos or OE?

Again, what does it have to do and using what type of hardware?

eCos is more for small completely embedded real-time applications (as far as I know). Linux is not so real-time (in the hard real-time sense) though can potentially support a much richer interface and wider software stack.

Hope this helps,

Martyn

> 
> thank you.
> 

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