DLSLUG Meeting, 3 August-2006

[Ted Roche]

Twelve attendees met for the August meeting of the Dartmouth Lake  
Sunapee Linux User Group, held in hall L-02 of

Thanks to Thomas Hall of Wind River Systems for the presentation and  
for making the trek from Quincy, Mass all the way to Hanover, Bill  
McGonigle for organizing the meeting, and Dartmouth College for  
providing the facilities. My somewhat fragmented notes follow. I'm  
not up on the embedded technologies, so any errors are likely mine:

Tom shared a little of himself - A Mech E and Business major, got  
dragged into the mechanical/electronic interfaces and then embedded  
systems. Shared a little bit of VxWorks challenges in the Boeing 787  
project: 56 computers with 42 vendors - yikes!

Main demo was of Eclipse, which replaced their in-house proprietary  
development environments. Wind River has contributed 300k lines of of  
code back to the Eclipse community. Their development paradigm is  
NFS, where the host file system is actually on the host, but the  
target platform believes it is on the target.  He demonstrated their  
user mode debugging agent, also contributed into the public domain  
and LTT, the Linux Trace Toolkit, which also replaced a proprietary  
VxWorks tool. Tom had brought along some hardware and was able to  
hook it up and show tracing and debugging on the boards themselves.  
Very impressive stuff.

Thanks again to Thomas for making the trek, and to Bill for running  
the show.

Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com