From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22596 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2010 16:53:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 22572 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Feb 2010 16:53:36 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hermes.mlbassoc.com (HELO mail.chez-thomas.org) (76.76.67.137) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:53:30 +0000 Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 2E3EF16604F6; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:53:29 -0700 (MST) Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A23516604F3; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:53:28 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4B840808.1090208@mlbassoc.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:53:00 -0000 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a2pre) Gecko/20100211 Shredder/3.2a1pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evgeniy Dushistov CC: John Dallaway , Daniel Helgason , eCos Maintainers , Martin Laabs Subject: Re: Getting Atmel AT91SAM9 into eCos References: <1266877649.3024.105.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4B839F37.50904@dallaway.org.uk> <20100223100104.GA15310@rain> In-Reply-To: <20100223100104.GA15310@rain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-02/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 On 02/23/2010 03:01 AM, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:26:15AM +0000, John Dallaway wrote: >> Hi Daniel, Evgeniy and eCos maintainers >> >> Daniel Helgason wrote: >> >>> I have seen many messages on the eCos mailing lists about getting >>> AT91SAM9 support into eCos. I'm writing directly to you in hopes of >>> getting some movement on this. I know this is off the mailing list but I >>> wanted to get initial input directly from people whose opinions I have >>> come to respect before I add yet another message to the mailing list >>> about this subject. >> >> [ snip ] >> >>> If there was ever a time to consider pushing the AT91SAM9 devices into >>> eCos, this could be it! I am asking you for your thoughts on how to >>> proceed from here. Thanks! >> >> I am not an expert on ARM7/ARM9 differences but there are several eCos >> maintainers who have experience with multiple ARM variants and are well >> positioned to review the AT91SAM9 patch. I do not think motivation >> should be an issue here. We all wish to see eCos move forward and >> AT91SAM9 support is clearly very good for the project. >> >> My main concern is that we don't break eCos support for older ARM >> platforms in the process of improving the hardware abstraction for >> future platform ports. >> > > Actually, I and Filip Navara implemented AT91SAM7X and at91sam9263 > support for qemu, one of the most recent version can be found here: > git://github.com/Dushistov/qemu_at91sam9263.git > It can run linux, freertos, ecos. > > So if there is interest, I can create binaries of qemu for linux OS, > so maintainers who have sam7 hardware, but have no sam9, or > vice versa, or completly have no development boards can run > and test eCos. How do you configure Qemu to run eCos on these platforms? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------