D-Pack: The DSDP Packaging Project

Bob Frankel, Martin Oberhuber (Intel Corporation)

Frameworks - Mobile And Embedded · Short - 10 minutes
Tuesday, 15:30, 10 minutes | Great America 1

Bob Frankel

Martin Oberhuber

The DSDP projects have been adopted by commercial vendors since their inception, but a one-stop-shop packaged Open Source solution for embedded development has been an unfulfilled request up to now. In fact, there are multiple communities out there in Open Source, who are in need of a comprehensive method for bundling their stuff with an IDE. Eclipse and DSDP have the best qualifications for being that IDE.

In this talk, we will present D-Pack, the DSDP Packaging Project which is currently in the proposal phase. We will highlight some of the obstacles found such as the requirement to add external tools under GPL, as well as our vision for solving these. The talk will conclude with ideas how schools, universities, silicon vendors and other communities can make use of and contribute to the packaging effort.

Bob Frankel has recently retired from Texas Instruments after a long and productive tour of duty spanning three decades. Besides serving as one of the earliest advocates for leveraging the Eclipse/CDT framework as the backbone for TI's own IDE, much of Bob's effort throughout this decade has been focused upon developing and evangelizing RTSC—software technology which enables component-based development in C/C++ targeting diverse embedded platforms, and which has formally joined the Eclipse/DSDP community through a project of its own. To learn more about where Bob's been and where Bob's heading, visit his website at BiosBob.Biz.

Martin is the leader of the DSDP - Target Management project, PMC member, Platform core and e4 committer, and currently chair of the Eclipse Architecture Council. Driven by his desire for constant improvement, he is involved in many areas around Eclipse. Martin holds an MS degree in Telematics from the University of Technology Graz/Austria, and has been working on Wind River IDEs in Salzburg, Austria since 1998.