Outdated list of BSPs in rtems-tools/config

[Peter Dufault]

> On Jul 25, 2023, at 10:14 , Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
> 
> Most of those are recent and from a lot of different people. GSoC, Kinsey,
> you, Vijay or Chris, Karel, etc. But I wonder about that phycore_mpc5554. I
> think it has been around a LONG time.
> 

I'm cleaning my in-box, and I missed a reference to te Phycore-MPC5554 BSP in July.

I am the one who added the Phycore-mpc5554 as a minor refinement to the Freescale MPC55xx embedded board BSPs developed by "eb".

It *is* time to retire the Phytec board as that board is no longer available.

But, I hope we can keep it around for a while as I now need to work on a follow-up to that BSP.

One of my clients uses the Phycore-MPC5554.  They missed the end-of life announcement for that board. They need to quickly update to something very compatible, and a BSP based on the PHYTEC MPC5674F will work, the MPC5674F has all the functionality they require without software changes.

I'd like to keep the Phycore-MPC5554 BSP alive and kicking while I develop equivalent MPC5674F support.

A related question. I think "eb" has a "gwlcfm" target that uses this NXP architecture in one of their products.  "eb", are you planning another "gwlcfm", or are you done with that, and what platform would you move to?  I'd like to learn about an architecture that works as well as the old Motorola architecture does without custom FPGA programming.

If I leave the old Motorola PowerPC's architecture targeted at engine control, I will miss how the ADC DMA chain works together with the eTPU and also schedules the output so cleanly do background motor control, and other timing intensive applications, so that the main CPU is free to e.g. run RTEMS (and in my case position servo control).

Peter
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Peter Dufault
HD Associates, Inc.      Software and System Engineering



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