Integrating Micromonitor Support Into RTEMS

[Joel Sherrill]

Leon Pollak wrote:
> Here, at PLR, we happily use Micromonitor for years to run RTEMS.
> We did a BSPs called uMon_8260 and uMon860 which actually do wrapping the 
> console to uMon and include Ethernet driver.
>
>   
That's interesting.  I hadn't considered pushing this farther
and providing some generic uMon drivers to help kick start
a BSP. 

Would you consider submitting those?  I think I have a bit
of an idea for a generic uMon BSP. :)
> That is...:-)
>
> Thanks a lot to Ed Sutter.
>   

Indeed.

--joel
> On Thursday June 11 2009, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am close to having the Micromonitor application
>> support code working completely with RTEMS.  This
>> includes the "monlib" functionality which allows
>> you to utilize a LOT of functionality provided by
>> the monitor as well as Ed Sutter's "TFS RTEMS
>> Filesystem".  Micromonitor has its own file system
>> and his TFS filesystem allows you to mount this
>> and access it via monitor support.
>>
>> The code will obviously only work on boards with
>> Micromonitor but since Micromonitor supports
>> many boards across multiple architectures and this
>> code is BSP independent, I am feeling a tug to
>> put it into CPU Kit since it only requires 1 BSP
>> method to support it.
>>
>> The alternative is to put it in libbsp/shared and
>> make every BSP that wants to use it, add rules to
>> their Makefile.am.
>>
>> Any suggestions?  Thoughts?
>>     
>
>
>   


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