Wind River Linux sets the standard for embedded device development. Our industry-leading, commercial-grade Linux platform enables device manufacturers to develop, run, and deploy devices to market easier, faster, and more costeffectively than ever before. The Wind River Linux solution 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.

Wind River Linux with its broad range of Board Support Packages (BSPs) optimized for leading CPU architecture, device drivers, and hardware technologies, ensures that your current and future projects will be supported. All components of the platform, including the kernel, integrated patches and packages, Wind River Workbench developer tools, and supported hardware architectures and boards, have been exhaustively tested and validated.

Wind River Linux is the latest release that demonstrates our continued commitment to meet the demands of embedded device developers. It is delivered in optimized platforms designed to address the unique needs of aerospace and defense (A&D), networking, consumer electronics, industrial devices, and automotive infotainment developers. Wind River General Purpose Platform, Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, and Wind River Platform for Network Equipment are the three platforms that Wind River has designed its Linux offerings around to address specific customer needs.

Key Benefits

• 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, thus allowing you to invest in competitive differentiators rather than on platform infrastructure.
• Reduce complexity of your present and future projects by leveraging Wind River Linux cross-build system and layers development methodology.
• Deliver advanced functionality/capabilities with guaranteed real-time performance, advanced networking stacks, and enhanced multiprocessing support, not available from open source.
• Ensure that you have a plan for the long-term with a guaranteed Linux platform roadmap.

Key Features

• Key Features in Wind River Linux 2.6.21 kernel
• GCC 4.x toolchain
• 64-bit user/kernel space application and tools support
• PREEMPT_RT real-time extensions
• CGL 4.0 compliance to meet the availability, scalability, manageability, reliability, and performance needs of networking and telecommunications equipment manufacturers
• 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 number of additional BSPs, including several new BSPs for Real-Time Core
• Wind River Real-Time Core for Linux for guaranteed interrupt response (optional)
• Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies stack integration for additional networking functionality (optional)