[GSoC] Porting RTEMS to OpenRISC - Status Report 1

[Chris Johns]

On 2/05/2014 1:17 pm, Hesham Moustafa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a status report of the project during last week.
>
> 1- newlib: is ported and gcc builds successfully. The only feedback I
> got when I posted the newlib patch [1] is about licence of setjmp.S
> file. I contacted Damjan Lampret, the author of the file, asking him
> to change the licence as Ralf suggested but I got no reply yet. If
> changing the licence has not been feasible, can I write a similar
> setjmp.S one?

I am not sure. Ralf has a valid issue and it may pay to ask on the 
newlib list about this as well.

> 2- toolchain: is all built now providing or1k-rtems4.11-* tools. GDB
> is built too but from or1k-src repo. Should I create a patch for it
> against upsteam binutils-gdb cvs? If yes, there are two options: the
> first is to add a patch for or1ksim library to be embedded into gdb
> and used when typing "target sim" command, the other option is to
> connect gdb remotely to or1ksim simulator (target remote :xxxxx).
> Which one to implement?

The think we should keep it separate from gdb. We have other targets 
where we have a server remote, eg OpenOCD.

If we have have the RSB built the simulator that would be a good thing.

> 3- RTEMS: I started investigating the old or32 port for RTEMS, that
> led me to add few files and configurations for or1k cpu and or1ksim
> BSP for testing purposes. I was trying to get a libbspstart.a and link
> it with other standalone bare-metal main.c program, thus, I
> familiarize my self with the process of adding a new architecture, and
> have some code to debug.
>
> I would appreciate your feedback and guidance.
>

Excellent progress. Well done.

Chris

> [1] http://www.rtems.org/pipermail/rtems-devel/2014-April/006598.html
>
> Thanks,
> Hesham
>