Rtems for a space project

Ralf Corsepius ralf.corsepius at rtems.org
Mon Jan 12 09:05:34 UTC 2009


Massimo Tipaldi schrieb:
> Dear all,
>
> I work for an aerospace company and my activity on RTEMS is aimed at 
> evaluating its usage for the  on-board SW of an European Space Agency 
> satellite.
>
> Rtems has been already used in the some ESA mission (i.e. Herschel/Planck).
>
> In any case, it would have been nice to use RTEMS with a Windows host, 
> but it seems so far that it is not possible. Executable files compiled 
> on a Windows host are not compatible with the elf/multiboot 
> specifications (surely for what we have seen in the last weeks).
>   
Pardon, but this all is way too vague to be able to comment on. Which I 
issues do you have?

> Moreover, it would be even nice to me
> 1) to write down this issue and to try to solve it in the next RTEMS 
> versions or,
> 2) if it is somehow already possible, to show the steps to generate a 
> RTEMS application on a Windows host in an ELF format.
>
> Should the Rtems community solve this issue, I'd be very grateful.
How about you to file a PR at https://www.rtems.org/bugzilla, providing an example to reproduce the issues you are referring to, such that people can investigate?

Ralf





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