Re: [ECOS] eCos on STR9 ?

[Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:34:55PM +0200, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My interest is in running an OS on STR9 (STR9xFA, STR911/STR912). There  
> is no mention of these chips whatsoever in the CVS sources, and the only  
> information regarding running eCos on the STR9 has been the following  
> posts by a few people interested in this, but it seems there has still  
> nothing come out of this.
>
> (http://sourceware.org/ml/ecos-devel/2006-06/msg00017.html or better: )
> http://www.mail-archive.com/ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org/msg00160.html
>
> and:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-devel/2007-01/msg00001.html
>
> I don't currently have more than maybe a day of time to invest into  
> gettting eCos to run on the STR9, otherwise I'll go with another OS (for  
> now, anyway). I don't need ethernet functionality, only SPI and some  
> manually toggled I/O as well as PWM and variable frequency pulse output  
> (I guess I'd do the latter things myself anyway; btw if possible I'd  
> like to use all four timers for my application, although one of them  
> could run at a constant frequency and so could probably also be used to  
> generate ticks) and the usual reset and memory/irq routine setup stuff;  
> how difficult would it be to get that much of eCos to run? I don't have  
> previous programming experience with the STR9 nor with eCos.

If you only have 8 hours, then it is totally impossible. I think even
getting an OS which fully supports the STR9 up and running in 8 hours
would be difficult.

      Andrew

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