“Developers of embedded-Linux systems established some common
ground at a gathering last week, as they laid the foundation to
build common threads among their various efforts and also decided
to back Cygnus Solutions’ EL/IX as a common applications
programming interface (API) for embedded Linux.”
“Nearly 100 developers and programmers attended the grass-roots
Real Time Linux Workshop here last week, and all but one voted to
proceed with the use of EL/IX as their API.”
“At the heart of the workshop was the perceived need to
prevent real-time Linux efforts from fragmenting. Given
Linux’s open-source nature and the sudden surge in embedded systems
using the OS, some developers are worried that incompatible
versions of the OS might crop up.”