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General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition, is an optimized develop and run solution for a range of devices, from aerospace and defense applications to networking, consumer electronics, industrial equipment, and automotive systems. The platform provides a robust, flexible foundation for companies that need to leverage their investment in proprietary intellectual property. This proven technology package comes wrapped in a 20+-year company track record, with an exceptional ecosystem of world-class technology partners and the industry's most comprehensive support organization.
The Foundation: Commercial-Grade Linux Technology
At the core of the platform is the kernel.org Linux 2.6 kernel implementation, with integrated patches and packages for enhanced networking and security requirements. Wind River offers a "pristine source" distribution that ensures maximum visibility, allowing customers to see exactly which patches and packages have been included, in addition to easily incorporating new ones as they become available through the Linux community. The platform's distribution also provides a unique, intuitive build system that makes it simple to install and modify the kernel and root file system as desired.
All components of General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition, including the kernel, integrated patches and packages, the Wind River Workbench development suite, and supported hardware architectures and boards, have been exhaustively tested and validated. In addition to our Linux test harnesses, we have performed extensive use-case validation to make sure the platform is optimized for common device applications.
Optimized Development Suite
General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition, includes the industry-leading open, extensible Wind River Workbench development suite. From hardware and board initialization to application development, the suite offers deep capability across the development process in a single integrated environment, complete platform integration, and powerful tools for debugging, code analysis, and test. Based on the Eclipse framework, Workbench can be extended easily through in-house, third-party, open-source, and commercially available plug-ins. Workbench's support for multiple OSes, architectures, and programming languages gives companies unprecedented flexibility across the enterprise.
Integrated Run-Time Technologies
General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition, includes comprehensive networking and run-time technologies that have been pre-integrated, tested, and validated. Leveraging these standard technologies saves valuable development time and allows you to focus your efforts on adding value and differentiating functionality for your device.
Commercial-Grade Services and Support
General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition, includes full access to Wind River's worldwide support organization, with 24/7 product support available through multiple channels. Customers can leverage the education credits included with the platform to bring engineering teams up to speed on the latest DSO technologies and tools. In addition, Wind River offers a Linux Services Practice -- our team of engineers has extensive experience delivering design, integration, and optimization services tailored to the needs of the open-source community.
A Proven and Reliable Partner
The right technology partner can greatly increase your odds of succeeding in a highly competitive marketplace. As the industry leader in Device Software Optimization, Wind River has met and exceeded the requirements of our customers and their markets for over 20 years. More than 4,000 businesses have leveraged our skills, experience, and expertise to deploy and support more than 350 million devices successfully. A vibrant, publicly traded company, Wind River is positioned to stay the course with established device manufacturers and new companies alike.
Extensive Partner Ecosystem
The Wind River partner ecosystem delivers the capabilities and expertise of dozens of premier silicon and software companies to your engineering team. To ensure a complete range of integrated technologies, Wind River has joined forces with world-class providers to address such technologies as advanced file systems and graphics, reference designs, and board support packages. Not only does choosing General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition, take you out of the operating system and middleware business, it also simplifies your vendor choice and management issues.
Flexible, Royalty-Free Business Model
Wind River complements the technical advantages of General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition, with a flexible, royalty-free business model. Under our Enterprise License Model, the platform is offered on a per-developer, per-year subscription basis applicable across the enterprise, regardless of project, processor, or site. The yearly subscription includes Wind River worldwide support and all product updates, including our semiannual product releases in the fall and spring.
Why General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition?
- Preintegrated, tested, and validated Linux distribution reduces time-to-revenue
- Pristine source code transparency offers maximum flexibility to customize distribution
- Complete, end-to-end development suite enables developer efficiencies and standardization
- Eliminates the burden of having to support and maintain your own Linux distribution
- Frees up your valuable engineering resources to focus on competitive differentiation
- Access to a global team of Linux experts through Wind River Professional Services extends developer capabilities
- Going to market with a proven and trusted partner gives confidence
Included in General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition
- Run-Time System
- Linux 2.6.10 kernel
- GNU glibc 2.3.4 C library
- O(1) scheduler with SMP CPU affinity
- Preemptive kernel
- Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL)
- High-Resolution Timers (HRTs)
- Fast User-Space Mutexes
- Transparent Interprocess Communication (TIPC)
- RAID-0 (striping) and RAID-1 (mirroring)
- High-performance file systems (ext2, ReiserFS, XFS)
- Journaling file systems (JFFS2, ext3)
- Full-featured IPv4/IPv6 platform
- Networking protocols and applications, including BGP, DHCP, FTP, HTTP, NFSv4, NTP, RARP, RIP, OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, SCTP, Telnet, TFTP, and VLAN
- Network management through SNMP v1/v2c/v3
- Network security through SSL, SSH, Firewall, and IPsec
- Host Development Tools
- GNU GCC 3.4.4 cross-toolchain
- Wind River Linux cross-build system
- Wind River Workbench 2.4
- Eclipse 3.1 framework
- Wind River System Viewer
- ScopeTools
- MemScope
- ProfileScope
- StethoScope
- On-Chip Debugging (JTAG) plug-in
- Supported Target Architectures (*)
- ARM Architecture: ARM9
- Intel Architecture: Pentium Family (3/4/M, EM64T)
- Intel XScale Architecture: IXP4xx
- MIPS Architecture: MIPS4K, MIPS24K, BCM1280, BCM1480
- PowerPC Architecture: 44x, 60x, 7xx, 74xx, 82xx, 83xx, 85xx, 97x
- Supported Target Reference Boards (*)
- AMCC Bamboo 440EP
- ARM Versatile 926EJ
- Broadcom BCM91480
- Freescale 8349ADS
- Intel EIDXE7520DEVKIT with dual Xeon
- Intel IXDP465
- MIPS Malta 4Kc
- MIPS Malta 24KE
- Wind River SBC PowerQUICC II with MPC8260
- Wind River SBC PowerQUICC II Pro with MPC8349
- Wind River SBC 8560/40 with MPC8560
- Platform Developer Host Support (*)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 WS and 4 WS
- Application Developer Host Support (*)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 WS and 4 WS
- Solaris 8 and 9
- Windows 2000 and XP
(*) Check with your local Wind River representative for additional support information and the latest board support packages
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