Officials of Wind River (News - Alert) recently announced their Linux 4 update pack 3. Wind River Linux 4 itself is described by company officials as “the latest version of our commercial embedded Linux run-time and development platform,” adding that this update pack “adds new functionality, usability improvements, hardware support and integrations with add-on products to the core platform.”

They expect Wind River Linux 4 customers to migrate to this latest platform

Some of the core platform enhancements -- we’ll hit the highlights here, the complete list can be found at the link above.

IPv6. Their IPv6 stack has achieved official “IPv6 Ready” certification, designed to reduce total cost of ownership, cost of work, and fragmentation. It achieves compliance (tahi test suite), and every daily build is now tested. It’s certified to meets customer requests for IPv6 certified stack and provides a coexistence option -- “important because migration from IPv4 is expected to take about 10 years.”

Virtual Routing and Forwarding. Wind River Linux now offers what company officials say is “a simple, elegant open source” product, easy to implement and inexpensive for building next- generation routers. The overall idea is to reduce operational expense through consolidation, and the upgrade pack allows multiple instances of a routing table to coexist on the same device and creates separate vpNs easily as demand increases. It also uses network containers with dedicated cpu affinities and Linux user space to roll more than 100 devices into one.

Turning our attention to add-on product integrations, we have Wind River Simics 4.6. “With this integration, teams can start developing projects on Wind River Linux even before hardware is available,” company officials say, noting that lower hardware costs and time-to-market and increased efficiency are integrated into Wind River Linux workflows, which enable teams to develop, debug, and test complex embedded systems on the host machine.

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