Questions about QNX

Hi,

We are currently doing projects that use VxWorks and run on MVx604
boards (which contain the PowerPC 604e processor). The powers that be
are looking into a cheaper RTOS to run on the same boards. So my
questions are:

  1. Does QNX support Motorola boards like the MV2604 that are akin to
    the BSP provided by WRS? Or does one need to write our own BSP or get
    one from a third party?

  2. If there is a way to run an a MV2604, how easy is it to setup QNX
    compared to setting up VxWorks?

Thanks in advance!

JB

Previously, JB wrote in comp.os.qnx:

  1. If there is a way to run an a MV2604, how easy is it to setup QNX
    compared to setting up VxWorks?

Don’t know the answer to #1; but assuming there is a BSP for QNX (and working in a VxWorks shop) I can tell you that QNX RtP is definately easier to use, since it is a fully self hosted environment (unlike VxWorks).

Rennie

QRTP self hosted on PowerPC??? To my knowledge it
only self host on x86

<rallen@computermotion.com> wrote in message
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Previously, JB wrote in comp.os.qnx:

  1. If there is a way to run an a MV2604, how easy is it to setup QNX
    compared to setting up VxWorks?

Don’t know the answer to #1; but assuming there is a BSP for QNX (and
working in a VxWorks shop) I can tell you that QNX RtP is definately easier

to use, since it is a fully self hosted environment (unlike VxWorks).

Rennie

Mario Charest wrote:

QRTP self hosted on PowerPC??? To my knowledge it
only self host on x86

What I meant was will QNX allow for code to initialize and then run on
a MV2604 board as the target. The host will, of course, be running on a
PC.

JB

rallen@computermotion.com> > wrote in message
news:Voyager.000821110302.6498D@rgallen…
Previously, JB wrote in comp.os.qnx:

  1. If there is a way to run an a MV2604, how easy is it to setup QNX
    compared to setting up VxWorks?

Don’t know the answer to #1; but assuming there is a BSP for QNX (and
working in a VxWorks shop) I can tell you that QNX RtP is definately easier
to use, since it is a fully self hosted environment (unlike VxWorks).

Rennie