Wind River Linux is the industry-leading Linux platform for embedded device development. In one single product, Wind River Linux contains all the features and hardware support needed in a broad variety of industries and device types, including devices for networking, consumer, aerospace and defense, industrial, and medical. Preconfigured system profiles make it easy to jump-start device-specific development and allow device manufacturers to bring their products to market easier, faster, and more cost-effectively than ever before.
Wind River Linux is a complete, fully tested, and validated distribution based on Linux 2.6 kernel technology, the Eclipse-based Wind River Workbench development suite, and 24/7 global technical support and professional services. It comes with up-to-date open source components and more than 500 software packages, including multimedia, graphic, and HMI (human-machine interface) technologies. It offers a broad range of board support packages (BSPs) optimized for leading CPU architectures, enhanced real-time and networking capabilities, and sophisticated multicore features such as virtualization and multicore offload.
Wind River Linux 3.0 demonstrates Wind River' s commitment to open source and is fully supported by Wind River's award-winning world-class support.
Benefits & Features
- Jump-start device-specific development with hardware support and a set of preconfigured system profiles for a broad variety of industries, including networking, consumer devices, industrial devices, aerospace and defense, and others.
- Deploy your device quickly and efficiently, reducing time-to-market.
- Lower costs by eliminating the burden of building, supporting, and maintaining your own Linux distribution, allowing you to focus on the applications that you develop and not on developing the Linux platform.
- Focus limited resources on the essential and critical, allowing you to invest in competitive differentiators rather than on platform infrastructure.
Key Features
- Linux kernel 2.6.27 +1694 kernel patches across 50 features
- GNU GCC 4.3.2 toolchain
- More than 500 software packages, including X.org, GTK+, GNOME, Gstreamer, OpenGL, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
- Preconfigured system profiles for specific device types
- 64-bit user/kernel space application and tools support
- Real-time options providing soft to hard real-time requirements
- PREEMPT_RT real-time extensions
- PREEMPT_IRQ real-time extensions, CGL 4.0 compatible
- Wind River Real-Time Core for Linux for guaranteed interrupt response (optional)
- CGL 4.0 compliance to meet the availability, scalability, manageability, reliability, and performance needs of networking and telecommunications equipment manufacturers
- Multicore and virtualization: Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM); multicore hardware offload; multicore aware tools for development, debugging, and analysis
- Integrated security-enhanced Linux packages for access control, process separation, and protection of confidential information or against malicious processes
- Reduced root file system footprint for flash memory constrained devices
- Accelerated kernel boot time for "instant-on" capability
- Broad hardware support, now including Sun SPARC
- Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies stack integration for additional networking functionality (optional)
