Re: [ECOS] CerfBoard 250

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 20:31, Stephan Bourduas wrote:
> On October 4, 2004 06:57 pm, Gary Thomas wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 16:52, Stephan Bourduas wrote:
> > > I have a cerfboard 250 which has an XScale processor from intel on it.  I
> > > was wondering if anyone knows how to get eCos/redboot working with this
> > > platform.
> > >
> > > I see that in the supported platforms page, the CerfCube using SA1100 is
> > > supported.  Does anyone have any idea how similar the CerfCube and
> > > CerfBoard are?
> >
> > I don't know first hand, but I would guess that they are quite
> > different.
> >
> > The CerfCube (SA1110) port was contributed by Intrynsic.  You might
> > ask them about a port.
> 
> I've been digging trough the HAL repository, and I 
> see: /hal/arm/xscale/pxa2x0/
> 
> description   "
>         This HAL variant package provides generic
>         support for the Intel PXA2x0 processors. It is also
>         necessary to select a specific target platform HAL
>         package."
> 
> I'm wondering if I can use this in combination with a modified CerfCube HAL 
> and get it to fit my CerfBoard 250.  What do you think?  I've never tried to 
> port eCos, but I *think* that a lot of the work is already done.  Any 
> thoughts?

This is a part of the work - the rest is the platform details, which I'm
sure will be very different from the other PXA2xx targets that have 
already been ported.

That said, if you have complete documentation on the board and want to
make a stab, more power to you.  Of course, we'd love to have the 
results contributed to the project if possible.

Good luck!

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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