From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 15 12:47:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B5B16A432; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:47:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.ntplx.net (mail.ntplx.net [204.213.176.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ADBF43D46; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:47:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from sea.ntplx.net (sea.ntplx.net [204.213.176.11]) by mail.ntplx.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/NETPLEX) with ESMTP id k4FClJrT007800; Mon, 15 May 2006 08:47:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 08:47:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-X-Sender: eischen@sea.ntplx.net To: gnn@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20060513103640.GL69354@cicely12.cicely.de> <20060513085933.R986@odysseus.silby.com> <20060513151305.GP69354@cicely12.cicely.de> <20060513.115539.74661598.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS and Clam AntiVirus (mail.ntplx.net) Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Eclipse for Embedded FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Eischen List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 12:47:25 -0000 CC list trimmed. On Sun, 14 May 2006, gnn@freebsd.org wrote: > At Sun, 14 May 2006 14:44:32 -0400 (EDT), > Daniel Eischen wrote: > >> But the GUI-based tools to configure VxWorks, Linux, CE, or >> whatever, are attractive to the majority of developers and most >> especially look good to the people who are responsible for >> justifying and buying them. _We_ might snub our noses at such >> tools, but they look good to others. > > See, I thought you were being sarcastic, so, mea culpa. I think it's > what we'll have to do as well, but I don't think I'll be writing it. > No one wants to see my UI skills :-) I've written some Java GUIs for our simulations and controllers. The actual UI part is easy enough, it's what has to happen behind the scene that would take some thought. >> Well, see above. A GUI-based configuration tool, with tree-like >> heirarchy of dependencies and space requirements would be useful. >> Eclipse seems to be the standard for such things, but I admit I've >> never used it. >> > > I've not used it either. > >> And for industrial controls and military applications, a VME bus >> (nexus) driver supporting device drivers and mmap'able VME A32, A24, >> & A16 space would be great. > > I think we'll need someone working in those areas first, unless, well, > you're volunteering ;-) If I had no job, I would love to do that. But realJob keeps me busy enough so that I have limited time. There is someone that monitors the FreeBSD lists that would be willing to provide VME drivers for their VME-based SBCs, given enough need. That would be great, but it'd be nice to have some sort of support for it in the tree, rather than something like the NVidia driver that may or may not work. -- DE