Re: eCos on AT91SAM9 - call to action

[John Eigelaar <john@kses.net>]

On 16/03/2011 13:16, John Dallaway wrote:
> All
>
> There has been a lot of delay in getting AT91SAM9 support into the eCos
> repository. Far too much delay. I think the best way forward now is to
> focus on Evgeniy Dushitov's contribution (port for AT91SAM9263) initially:
>
>    http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000819
>
> This seems sensible because:
>
> a) The patches themselves are well abstracted.
> b) Some people are already using these patches as a baseline for
>     further AT91SAM9 ports.
> c) There is support for running this port under QEMU, allowing
>     wider testing.
>
> I would like to invite everyone with an interest in AT91SAM9 support for
> eCos to add themselves to the CC list for bug 1000819 and contribute to
> the review process. Let's make this a community effort.
>
> John Dallaway
> eCos maintainer
> http://www.dallaway.org.uk/john
John
We, Keystone Electronic Solutions, have already done a Redboot port for 
the AT91SAM9X512 and AT91SAM9260 devices based on Evgeniy's patches if 
anybody is interested. I have no idea as to how up to date our patch is 
but I will be will to provide our source if anybody is interested.

I have also used the port to build some test applications for these 
devices but nothing enterprise level yet. We use the Redboot port as 
boot loader for our Linux platforms.

I have a personal copyright assignment for eCos, but will probably need 
a blanket company wide in order to contribute this work.

Regards
John Eigelaar