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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 Fujitsu SPARClite Evaluation Board, you will also need:

- One 16550-based serial port on the PC (only required if using the serial connection).
- Fujitsu SPARClite Evaluation Board with a CygMon ROM installed .
- Null modem cable to connect the serial port on the PC to the CON1 serial I/O connector on the evaluation board.
- An ethernet connection between the PC and the evaluation board (possibly via a LAN). The ethernet connection is not necessary if you have a serial connection, but it does improve download speeds immensely.

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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