CMSIS?

[Joel Sherrill]

This is the license.

The big problem I see first is the typical use only on our hardware
and that in order to redistribute, we must ensure that it is only
used on ARM hardware.

This is a common restriction on vendor provided software and I
honestly don't know how to address including anything which
wants an open source project to ensure that anyone downloading
only uses it on the appropriate hardware.

We have seen similar licenses from at least four vendors.

If someone is able to crack this nut and find a way to not incur
liability for the RTEMS Project, I am open to ideas. But skeptical.

--joel

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On 8/29/2014 11:52 PM, Chris Nott wrote:
> Absent answer means no.
>
> I had the same idea. Actually I have played around with using vendor 
> libraries from TI and ST, and there is no problem compiling them in. I 
> can't see any reason CMSIS wouldn't fit in fine too. Actually from 
> memory the useful parts of CMSIS comprise two parts, ARM specific 
> intrinsic instructions and register locations in a header file, and 
> reasonable math libraries. It shouldn't be a bit deal to use these, I 
> would ignore the CMSIS linker scripts and such though.
>
> I would like to see CMSIS and parts of the vendor libraries integrated 
> with RTEMS if possible, but I am uncertain about licensing 
> compatibility. It seems daft to have to rewrite register locations and 
> platform specific instructions if the vendors provide them..
>
> Regards,
> Chris.
>
>
> On 29/08/2014 10:04 AM, Daniel Gutson wrote:
>> absent answer means NO?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>      Daniel.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Daniel Gutson
>> <daniel.gutson at tallertechnologies.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>     is there any precedent regarding a CMSIS abstraction layer
>>> implementation on RTEMS?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>     Daniel.
>>>
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