I am a begginer with QNX and I would appreciate your support in this
phase. We need to purchase a Industrial PC for our application.
Looking for it at the internet and restricting our search for those
manufacturers which have dealers here in Brazil, we choose Advantech
as a potential supplier.
The application engineer from Advantech have mentioned they have some
industrial PCs already certified for using with QNX6.0, but we intend
to use QNX6.3 in our application.
Based on your knowledge and practice experience, do you know whether
we will face some incompatibility problems with the hardware
(drivers) due to different QNX versions (6.0 x 6.3).
That would be very unlikely, although nothing is impossible. I’ve
never heard of QNX depricating, or stopping support for an older
driver in a newer version of the OS. The reason is simple. When
the OS gets upgraded, the worst that can happen is that the driver
structure changes somewhat, not the hardware code. Usually these
are kept somewhat separate anyway, but even if they weren’t,
programmers would have to fix most of the existing drivers, so why
not all of them?
That would be very unlikely, although nothing is impossible. I’ve
never heard of QNX depricating, or stopping support for an older
driver in a newer version of the OS. The reason is simple. When
the OS gets upgraded, the worst that can happen is that the driver
structure changes somewhat, not the hardware code. Usually these
are kept somewhat separate anyway, but even if they weren’t,
programmers would have to fix most of the existing drivers, so why
not all of them?
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That would be very unlikely, although nothing is impossible. I’ve
never heard of QNX depricating, or stopping support for an older
driver in a newer version of the OS. The reason is simple. When
the OS gets upgraded, the worst that can happen is that the driver
structure changes somewhat, not the hardware code. Usually these
are kept somewhat separate anyway, but even if they weren’t,
programmers would have to fix most of the existing drivers, so why
not all of them?
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Thanks Mitch. Now I found that computer from Advantech already
certified to run a QNX6 RTOS has IDE ATA interface, and as long as I
know, QNX does not support ATA devices yet. Any recommendation?
