Thursday, October 29, 2009

MontaVista announces additional platform support with MontaVista Linux 6

SANTA CLARA, USA: MontaVista Software Inc., the leader in embedded Linux commercialization, announced more new Market Specific Distributions (MSDs) for MontaVista Linux 6.

The new MSDs continue to expand the market specific focus of MVL6, delivering support for industrial automation, automotive, Android, portable multimedia devices, and multicore networking applications. All the new MSDs will be available this quarter and support processors from Cavium, Freescale, Intel, and Texas Instruments.

Market Specific Distributions are built on a common framework, and optimized for the respective hardware platform and its target market. Each MSD is feature compatible with the semiconductor Linux technology for that processor, and is fully tested and supported by MontaVista. In addition, MontaVista adds additional features required to deliver a complete, commercial quality product to market.

MontaVista becomes the first commercial embedded Linux vendor to announce support for Industrial Automation, bringing added features such as advanced power management, RT Preempt support, and Ethernet enablement for PROFINET.

For networking, the new MSDs support some of the newest multicore processors from Intel, Cavium, and Freescale, offering added features like semiconductor-optimized library support for multi core management, and advanced network features like SCTP, OpenSwan, libpcap, and IPsec tools.

The Android MSD offers advanced power management, advanced 2D/3D graphics, semiconductor advanced codec enablement, along with Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. Similar to Android, the Portable Multimedia Device and Automotive MSDs offers advanced power management, advanced 2D/3D graphics, semiconductor advanced codec enablement, along with Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, but also adds CAN (controller-area network) support.

Multifunction Printer (MFP) MSDs focus on value added features like advanced power management, advanced connectivity, memory management features like bigphysarea, and mass storage for larger HDDs.

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