If your target platform is an embedded controller, what facility exists or will exist for emulation on a basic PC? Or am I misunderstanding the end goal of the LinPLC project?

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Hello,

Todd A. Lyons:
> If your target platform is an embedded controller, what facility exists
> or will exist for emulation on a basic PC? Or am I misunderstanding the
> end goal of the LinPLC project?

As I understand it, the target platform is Linux, with support for real-time or embedded variants of Linux. Therefore any stock Linux PC should be able to run the PLC (minus real-time guarantees).


> * One GUI to rule them all, One GUI to find them *
> *One GUI to bring them all, and with the blue screen bind them*
> * In the land of Redmond, where the shadows lie. *

Nice sig... though I may have identified Red Mont with Mount Doom, myself (based just on the form of the words, not on any of their logic).


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Hi Todd

This is conjectural at this point, but, I would like a funtional subset of the whole project to be runnable on either an embedded platform or a regular PC. To this end, I am watching the ELIX standard closely. This is an effort to allow development of embedded software on a regular PC with some guarantee that it will run on a smaller Linux or even perhaps ECOS for real time. As the Embedded Linux Consortium adds adherants we may
be able by this means to write code that would even be portable arcross RT enabled Linux's and remain runnable on generic clones where size is
not an issue. I am concerned that continued development only on PC's will result in excessive complexity and bloat. Obviously SCADA with
databases and 3D visualization will have to be distributed to another Linux box for embedded systems. If we can remain coded small, tight,
and fast it will only improve our chances of "world domination" :^).
Embedded Linux can be our tie in to an enourmous growth market that sees things our way already. It's an area where MS products simply can't compete. This first pass will certainly run on a small platform, it will be challange to resist or at least intelligently separate the stuff that tends to be big. Perhaps there are even separate entities in the future. Focusing on a PLC size machine for now is a good thing.

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