Re: Adding Kinetis boards

[Ilija Kocho <ilijak@siva.com.mk>]

Hi Tomas

It may be just enough to add a new target entry in ecos.db.
I am not familiar with Kwikstik I only know that it is based on same
chip as TWR-K40. Can you please point the differences between boards
with respect to: HAL, devices, etc.

Ilija

On 15.12.2011 17:57, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking at adding the Kwikstik to the current Kinetis boards, and I
> am wondering what would be the best way to approach this.
>
> Currently there are two Kinetis boards, the TWR-K40X256 and TWR-K60N512,
> with the directory structure something like this:
>
> kinetis/var/...     - Generic Kinetis code
> kinetis/twr_k40x256 - K40 and twr-k40 code
> kinetis/twr_k60x256 - K60 and twr-k60 code
>
> Kwikstik is based on the same MCU as the twr-k40x256, so it needs the
> same MCU-specific code as the twr-k40x256 board, which I think is all,
> or nearly all of the code currently under the twr_k40x256 directory.
>
> I initially thought I'd just clone twr_k40x256 into a new kwikstik
> directory, but that's probably not the best approach for
> maintainability. I am thinking it might be better to split out the
> generic K40 code so it can be shared between distinct boards, but I am
> not sure where to split this to: should there be a separate k40x256
> subdirectory and a corresponding package that the twr_k40x256 requires?
> Or is there a better way of approaching this altogether?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Tomas
>
>