<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Personally I am always interested in ports to new architectures but this particular</span><br></div></div></div><div>one has hurdles for maintenance. And as you say, it seems to be a somewhat </div><div>dated architecture.</div><span class=""><div></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div>No, I think that the board is a bit outdated , but the architecture itself is highly popular:</div><div>* it has a higher performance than arm (much higher in calculations)</div><div>* it is kind of simple </div><div>* it has an open description (GPUs haven't)</div><div>In my company many people want to start using some RTOS on top of DSP, but there </div><div>is only TI/RTOS and it is bad.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">If so, could you list the most required projects?</div><div class="gmail_extra">I have a beaglebone and a low cost low power stm32 board, </div><div class="gmail_extra">interested in real-time systems and testing (interesting - how to make temporal and</div><div class="gmail_extra">mock testing for rtems), have read ARINC653.</div><span class="m_1225973314201437975HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div></div></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Although it might not sound like it, the x86_64 port and BSP project is </div><div>very important to RTEMS. The current i386 PC port/BSP is primarily </div><div>for legacy hardware with some recent "adjustments" to accomodate</div><div>HW that has technically existed for 15 years. For example, I hacked</div><div>on the PCI access methods to support new hardware that didn't support</div><div>the ancient method. There is a long list of reasons why an x86_64</div><div>port is needed but the top are:</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>I think there is no proper support of x86_64 because no one need it in</div><div>embedded . Again, I know people who use x86 computer with dos, but it is </div><div>true only for old products. In newer products ARM, TI DSPs, AD DSPs and</div><div>FPGAs are used. MIPS sometimes is used too .Also, most of the time I</div><div>don't like x86_64 architecture.</div><div>Is it possible to do something with beaglebone and/or arm?</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Regards, Denis Obrezkov</div>
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