Processor and Evaluation Platform Support

The Origins of eCos 7 • Discussion List—contains support and technical assistance on various topics about the eCos project from developers. The list can be found online at http:sources.redhat.com mlecos-discuss, and the email address for the list is ecos-discusssources.redhat.com. • Patches List—used for submitting eCos patches for approval by the maintainers before they are committed to the source code repository. The list also hosts discussions about the different patches submitted. This list can be found online at http:sources.redhat.com mlecos-patches, and the email address for posts is ecos-patchessources.redhat.com. • Development List—includes discussions about current enhancements being developed, such as new ports and new features. General requests for help and information about eCos should be kept to the discussion list. This list can be found online at http:sources.redhat.commlecos-devel, and the email address is ecos-develsources .redhat.com. • Announcement List—a low-volume list for significant news about eCos that is also used to announce new eCos releases or major feature enhancements. This list can be found online at http:sources.redhat.commlecos-announce, and the email address is ecos-announcesources.redhat.com. • CVS Web Pages List—contains notifications of changes to the eCos Web pages that are maintained in Concurrent Versions System CVS. This read-only list can be found online at http:sources.redhat.commlecos-webpages-cvs. • CVS List—a read-only list that gives notifications of changes made to the eCos source code repository. This list can be found online at http:sources.redhat.commlecos-cvs. As with all mailing lists, it is generally a good idea to dig in and try to find the answer to your problem before posting a previously reported, and solved, question to the list. To assist with this process, the eCos mailing lists provide a means for searching previous messages posted to the list. Through my development using eCos, I have found that the discussion list is very respon- sive, compared to facilities provided by other companies in the past. I have found a two to three- day turnaround on getting answers to questions I have posted to the list from developers in the eCos community. However, it should be understood that not all questions asked on the discus- sion list are answered. Having questions that are very specific and detailed often helps the main- tainers, and other developers, to lend support. A great advantage of open-source development, and an open discussion list, is that the community for the project is there to assist in answering questions. Quite often, users who have encountered similar problems will post answers to aid their developer colleagues. Users are able to subscribe to any of the lists and receive emails for all messages posted to a particular list or a digest form that contains a collection of messages from the particular list. Receiving individual messages can be somewhat overwhelming; therefore, subscription to the digest version of the discussion list might be better. To sign up for any of the mailing lists, you can go online at: http:sources.redhat.comecosintouch.html