"DS-5 Application Edition
The new Eclipse-based Development Studio 5 (DS-5) supports ARM Linux development on ARM9, ARM11, and Cortex-A application processors."
http://www.keil.com/pr/article/1201.htm
http://www.keil.com/arm/ds5/
That's currently just for Native Linux and Android development on ARM9, ARM11, and Cortex-A8 - but why maintain 2 totally different IDEs?
Will (something like) this replace uVision-4 for use with all Keil toolchains?
Does this mean that Keil are going to resume support for GCC-based development?
Although Eclipse has some annoyances of its own, it is fast becoming the de facto standard, and I don't see any compelling reason to retain the uVision interface.
In fact, as uVision has many long-standing limitations, there do seem to be good reasons to drop it!
"If Keil would use eclipse they could put more effort into developing of their configurator, compiler, linker, simulator and debugger support"
Exactly!
See: http://www.keil.com/forum/docs/thread14928.asp
And: http://www.keil.com/forum/docs/thread15179.asp
I generally agree, but I guess there are other reasons for maintaining uv4, at least for now - mainly: employment issues, the brand, etc. etc. etc.