MontaVista Intros New Market Specific Distributions for MontaVista Linux 6

MontaVista Software has reportedly announced additional new Market Specific Distributions for MontaVista (News - Alert) Linux 6.

 

The new MSDs continue to expand the market specific focus of MVL6. According to the company, the latest offering delivers support for industrial automation, automotive, Android (News - Alert), portable multimedia devices, and multicore networking applications.

 

Built on a common framework, MSDs are optimized for the respective hardware platform and its target market. In addition to be being fully tested and supported by MontaVista, each MSD is feature compatible with the semiconductor Linux technology for that processor.

 

Also, MontaVista adds additional features required to deliver a complete, commercial quality product to market, company officials said.

 

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

 

The new MSDs support some of the newest multicore processors from Intel (News - Alert), Cavium, and Freescale for networking. In addition, the new offering also offers added features like semiconductor-optimized library support for multi core management, and advanced network features like SCTP, OpenSwan, libpcap, and IPsec tools.

 

“We continue to deliver on the promise of MontaVista Linux 6, delivering multiple high value, commercial quality MSDs for different target markets every quarter,” said Patrick MacCartee, director product management and hardware enablement strategies at MontaVista, in a statement.

 

MacCartee said that as the company’s hardware partners develop powerful new platforms, they’ll remain committed to providing new MSDs as quickly as possible, aligning the embedded Linux supply chain, and allowing joint customers to develop and deliver innovative applications to market faster.

 

In addition to offering advanced power management and advanced 2D/3D graphics, semiconductor advanced codec enablement, the Android MSD also offers Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity.

 

The Portable Multimedia Device and Automotive MSDs offer features similar to Android, and also provides controller-area network support, while multifunction printer MSDs focus on value added features like advanced power management, advanced connectivity, memory management features like bigphysarea, and mass storage for larger HDDs.

 

All the new MSDs will be available this quarter and support processors from Cavium, Freescale, Intel, and Texas Instruments (News - Alert), according to the company.