Intel IXP400 manual Operating System Support, Development Tools

Intel® IXP400 Software

Software Architecture Overview

2.3Operating System Support

The Intel XScale microarchitecture offers a broad range of tools together with support for two widely adopted operating systems. The software release 2.0 supports VxWorks* and the standard Linux* 2.4 kernel. MontaVista* software will provide the support for Linux. Support for other operating systems may be available. For further information, visit the following Internet site:

http://developer.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/ixp425.htm

The software release 2.0’s software library is OS-independent in that all components are written in ANSI-C with no direct calls to any OS library function that is not covered by ANSI-C. A thin abstraction layer is provided for some operating services (timers, mutexs, semiphores, and thread management), which can be readily modified to support additional operating systems. This enables the devices to be compatible with multiple operating systems and allows customers the flexibility to port the IXP4XX product line and IXC1100 control plane processors to their OS of choice.

2.4Development Tools

The Intel XScale microarchitecture offers a broad range of tools together with support for two widely adopted operating systems. Developers have a wide choice of third-party tools including compilers, linkers, debuggers and board-support packages (BSPs). Tools include Wind River* Tornado* 2.2.1 for the VxWorks 5.5.1 real-time operating system, Wind River’s PLATFORM for Network Equipment* and the complete GNU* Linux* development suite.

Refer to the release notes accompanying the software for information on specific OS support.

2.5Access Library Source Code Documentation

The access library source code uses a commenting style that supports the Doxygen* tool for use in creating source code documentation. Doxygen is an open-source tool, that reads appropriately commented source code and produces hyper-linked documentation of the APIs suitable for on-line browsing (HTML).

The documentation output is typically multiple HTML files, but Doxygen can be configured to produce LaTeX*, RTF (Rich Text Format*), PostScript, hyper-linked PDF, compressed HTML, and Unix* man pages. Doxygen is available for Linux, Windows* and other operating systems.

For more information, use the following Web URL:

http://www.doxygen.org.

The IXP400 software compressed file contains the HTML source code documentation at ixp400_xscale_sw\doc\index.html. This output is suitable for online browsing. For a printable reference, see the Adobe* Portable Document Format (PDF) file, contained in the compressed software-download file.

Programmer’s Guide	IXP400 Software Version 2.0	April 2005
	Document Number: 252539, Revision: 007	29