MontaVista Software has 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.
According to MontaVista, Market Specific Distributions are built on a common framework, and optimised for the respective hardware platform. Each MSD is feature compatible with the semiconductor Linux technology for that processor, and is fully tested and supported by MontaVista.
The company said that it provides support for Industrial Automation, bringing added features such as advanced power management, RT Preempt support, and ethernet enablement for Profitnet. The new MSDs also supports new multicore processors from Intel, Cavium, and Freescale, offering added features like semiconductor-optimised library support for multi core management, and advanced network features like SCTP, OpenSwan, libpcap, and IPsec tools.
The Android MSD offers advanced power management, 2D/3D graphics, semiconductor codec enablement, along with Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. Multifunction Printer (MFP) MSDs focus on features like advanced power management, connectivity, memory management features like bigphysarea, and mass storage for larger HDDs.
Patrick MacCartee, director of product management and hardware enablement strategies at MontaVista, said: “As our hardware partners develop powerful new platforms, we will remain committed to providing new MSDs as quickly as possible, aligning the embedded Linux supply chain, and allowing our joint customers to develop and deliver innovative applications to market faster and at a lower overall cost.”
