good first target?

[Sebastian Huber]

On 13/05/12 16:37, Patrick wrote:
> For my first RTEMS project all I want to do is play with a few GPIO 
> lines. My main concern is starting a project and then finding out that 
> there isn't full Ada support for my target. 

The Ada support is only a matter of the tool chain.

> I could use a microcontroller or a SBC. I could spend $100 or so but 
> if ARM or other lighter weight processors are fully supported then I 
> would prefer this over X86.
>

I don't know a evaluation board with debugger for $100.  For $169 you 
get this:

http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/kits/lpc1788_kit.php

> I like the eLua project. With this project there are several targets 
> supported but the Luminary Micro LM3S8962 is used by many members. 
> There are tutorials that discuss it's development board and there are 
> no weak spots in the project with this board. It is a sort a common 
> reference point.

You can develop a BSP for the LM3S8962. We already support the LM3S6965 
on the Qemu simulator.  You can play around with this BSP on Qemu to do 
your first steps with Ada and learn more about the system initialization 
of RTEMS.  You can then write step-by-step a BSP for the LM3S8962.

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