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## System Requirements

### Required

- Standard Intel ™ architecture PC running Linux (tested on Red Hat Linux distributions 5.0-6.1). Other versions of Red Hat distributions, or Linux distributions from other vendors should work as well. Also, English or Japanese versions of Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0 (service pack 3 or above must be installed), Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows 2000.

Sun ™ workstation running Solaris 2.5.1 or later for the SPARC ™ .

Support for any platform except for Windows NT 4.0 and Solaris 2.5.1 is beta. In particular, it is only possible to rebuild the GNUPro compiler toolchain on Windows NT 4.0, Solaris 2.5.1, and Linux.

- Enough disk space for the installed distribution. The eCos installation process will detail the various components of eCos and the GNUPro toolkit that can be installed, and their disk space requirements.

- 64MB of RAM and a 350MHz or faster Pentium processor.

If you are downloading the eCos Net Release distribution from Red Hat's Sourceware site, you will also need space to store that image and to compile GNUPro and eCos from source.

If you will be using the ARM PID evaluation board, you will also need:

- One (16550 based) serial port on the PC

- ARM PID evaluation board with eCos GDB stubs ROM installed, or GDB stubs programmed in the flash ROM (see ARM PID Hardware Setup ).

- Null modem cable to connect the serial port on the PC to the SerialA serial I/O connector on the evaluation board.

If you will be using the ARM AEB-1 evaluation board, you will also need:

- One (16550 based) serial port on the PC

- ARM AEB-1 evaluation board with eCos GDB stubs ROM image installed in the flash ROM.

- Null modem cable to connect the serial port on the PC to the serial I/O connector on the evaluation board.

If you will be using the Cogent CMA230 evaluation board, you will also need:

- One (16550 based) serial port on the PC

- Cogent CMA101/102 evaluation board with a CMA (ARM7tdmi) daughterboard and eCos GDB stubs ROM installed. Information and online manuals for the Cogent board can be found at http://www.cogcomp.com/.

- Serial cable to connect the serial port on the PC to the RJ-11 serial I/O connector, P11 (CMA101) or P3 (CMA102), on the evaluation board.

If you will be using the Cirrus Logic CL-PS7111 Evaluation Board, you will also need:

- One 16550-based serial port on the PC.

- A Cirrus Logic CL-PS7111 Evaluation Board with an eCos GDB stubs ROM image installed in the flash ROM.

- Custom cable that is supplied with the CL-PS7111 Evaluation Board connected from a serial port on the PC to the serial I/O connector labelled "Serial Port 1".

If you will be using the Cirrus Logic EP7209, EP7211 or EP7212 Development Boards, you will also need:

- One 16550-based serial port on the PC.

- A Cirrus Logic ARM EP7211 or EP7212 Development Board, with either a CygMon ROM Monitor image or a GDB stub ROM image installed in the flash ROM.

- If connecting with a serial cable, use a null modem cable to connect the serial port on the PC to the serial I/O connector labelled "UART 1" on the EP7211 Development Board, and "Serial Port 0" on the EP7209 and EP7212 Development Boards. A gender changer may also be required.

- If connecting using the ARM Multi-ICE Interface Unit, in the interests of stability it may be a useful precautionary measure to run the ARM Multi-ICE server on a separate Windows 9x/NT machine.

If you will be using the Intel StrongARM EBSA-285 evaluation board, you will also need:

- One (16550 based) serial port on the PC

- Intel StrongARM EBSA-285 evaluation board with eCos GDB stubs ROM image installed in the flash ROM.

- Null modem cable to connect the serial port on the PC to the serial I/O connector on the evaluation board. A gender changer may also be required.

If you will be using the Linux synthetic target, you will also need:

- An ix86 PC with an installed Linux distribution (tested with Red Hat Linux distributions 5.0 - 6.1).

### Recommended

- We recommend that Windows NT users install Internet Explorer 4.0 or later, since this will allow the Configuration Tool 's documentation panel to be searchable.

- A Pentium II computer and 64MB or more of RAM are recommended for best build performance.

The system has been tested only in the recommended configuration above, although other configurations are expected to work.

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