RE: Ecos port to RVDS + new board port

RE: Ecos port to RVDS + new board port

[Balasubramaniam, Harish]

Thanks for the link. Will get back to you on it.

 Yes that was a tricky one. We used a mix of manual (for OS) + automatic
(for applns) invoking of the constructors.

Rgds
Harish

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Larmour [mailto:jifl@eCosCentric.com] 
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 12:51 PM
To: Balasubramaniam, Harish
Cc: ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Ecos port to RVDS + new board port


Balasubramaniam, Harish wrote:
> Hi Ecos Owners,
>  
>  We have successfully ported Ecos source to use Arm compiler (instead
of
> gcc).

That sounds very interesting indeed. Lots of people have asked about
that, 
and we've usually considered it too difficult. How did you deal with 
constructor priority ordering? It'll certainly be an interesting set of 
changes!

>  We have also created a new HAL port for one of our upcoming chips
> (tested in both gcc & armcc).

Great.

>  We would like to know how to contribute these extensions to public
> domain.

We've got a write-up here, and it's probably not worth me repeating it
all:

http://ecos.sourceware.org/patches.html

But we should probably talk in more detail about the copyright 
assignment... we've talked to people in Intel before who have had some 
difficulty in persuading the Intel legal department to assign copyright.

I'd be interested to know if you have any perspective on this. There may
be 
other routes we can take to handle this which we don't normally take 
though, but we could make an exemption for a well-known reputable
company 
like Intel.

Jifl
-- 
eCosCentric    http://www.eCosCentric.com/    The eCos and RedBoot
experts
--["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]--
Opinions==mine

Re: Ecos port to RVDS + new board port

[Jonathan Larmour]

Balasubramaniam, Harish wrote:
> Hi Ecos Owners,
>  
>  We have successfully ported Ecos source to use Arm compiler (instead of
> gcc).

That sounds very interesting indeed. Lots of people have asked about that, 
and we've usually considered it too difficult. How did you deal with 
constructor priority ordering? It'll certainly be an interesting set of 
changes!

>  We have also created a new HAL port for one of our upcoming chips
> (tested in both gcc & armcc).

Great.

>  We would like to know how to contribute these extensions to public
> domain.

We've got a write-up here, and it's probably not worth me repeating it all:

http://ecos.sourceware.org/patches.html

But we should probably talk in more detail about the copyright 
assignment... we've talked to people in Intel before who have had some 
difficulty in persuading the Intel legal department to assign copyright. 
I'd be interested to know if you have any perspective on this. There may be 
other routes we can take to handle this which we don't normally take 
though, but we could make an exemption for a well-known reputable company 
like Intel.

Jifl
-- 
eCosCentric    http://www.eCosCentric.com/    The eCos and RedBoot experts
--["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine

Ecos port to RVDS + new board port

[Balasubramaniam, Harish]

Hi Ecos Owners,
 
 We have successfully ported Ecos source to use Arm compiler (instead of
gcc).
 We have also created a new HAL port for one of our upcoming chips
(tested in both gcc & armcc).

 We would like to know how to contribute these extensions to public
domain.

Thanks
Harish