Porting an embedded application to an RTEMS

[manish jain]

Yes, I am seeing the "lpc24xxx" and "lpc32xxx" as a point of start.

Manish
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
> > manish jain wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> @Chirs: Ok, let me provide a little description about the application.
> >> We want to port "http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Main_Page" on RTEMS.
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >> "Paparazzi" is an open source autopilot system which runs without the
> >> use of any RTOS. Currently, the autopilot system in "Paparazzi" using
> >> two types of boards  based upon STM32  and LPC21xx architecture. And
> >> besides that other hardware units are"
> >
> >
> > If your application has all the drivers in it, you can typically get away
> > with a simple BSP. Yes you will need to create a suitable BSP based on
> one
> > of the existing ones. A basic BSP needs only a console driver, typically
> to
> > a UART and timer driver. I am not sure which is the best BSP to copy and
> I
> > hope other who do will answer.
> >
> I am no ARM expert either, but I think the STM32 already has had some
> support with the stm32f4 bsp, and based on a quick look I think the
> rtl22xx is similar to the lpc21xx. If not maybe one of the other lpc
> BSPs are similar.
>
> If you go to rtems/c/src/lib/libbsp/arm you can see the subdirectories
> for different bsp variants including the stm32f4 and rtl22xx.
>
> Your device drivers probably should continue to work within your
> application I would guess. You could investigate porting them into BSP
> if it makes sense. A minimal BSP will provide boot/initialization
> code, a console (if you need one), and clock driver. Extra goodies may
> already be available or can be hooked into existing framework for
> drivers, or you can probably just leave the drivers in your
> application and just register the interrupt handler routines.
>
> -Gedare
> >
> > Chris
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