eCos FAQ : Contributing back to the eCos community : How do I contribute?
There are ways of contributing to eCos development which involve very little effort. Providing constructive comments on any part of the system, including the documentation and the web site, helps us to identify areas which need improvement. Reporting a problem gives us a chance to fix it, especially if you provide us with a simple test case and sufficient information to reproduce the problem. Participation in the discussions in the ecos-discuss mailing list gives us a better understanding of the user community, and perhaps some new ideas. If you wish to contribute to the actual code there are multiple levels of involvement. You can write a new package. This could be a HAL package as part of a port of the system to new hardware. It could be a device driver. It could provide some new functionality such as a graphics library. It could be a port of some existing software that is appropriate for embedded systems. You can enhance an existing package, for example the eCos kernel. If you find
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