Drop ecos target support?

[meyerj]

The ecos target has been added in 2007 (d83a121) and there was basically no change since then that did not simply apply an update in the Orocos OS abstraction layer to the ecos implementation alongside of all other targets.

I was looking for information on how to setup and test Orocos RTT with an eCos installation, but I did not succeed even with an older Ubuntu 14.04 system as the host system (tested with the latest eCos 3.0 release from March 2009 downloaded from here). Probably GCC 4.4 is too new because it could not understand some of the inlined assembler code in eCos and then I stopped to dig deeper.

Additionally, RTT refuses to build for the ecos target without additional patches due to this check added in 2011 (ccbaa7c6).

Are there still active users of the ecos target or eCos in general?

• If yes, could you please explain how to setup a test system or give some pointers?
• If no, I suggest to remove the target and all its traces in the build system.