rtems-users Digest, Vol 88, Issue 10

[Nick Withers]

Hi Tom,

Could you reply to the list, please? There'll be others who can provide
more insight that I :-)

On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 12:42 +0800, Tom Smith wrote:
> I checked the latest online docs,
> http://rtems.org/onlinedocs/doc-current/share/rtems/html/started/Using-the-RTEMS-configure-Script-Directly.html
> it also asks me to find the
> tools/rtems-4.11.<VERSION>/README.configure in the RTEMS source tree.

Ah, sorry about that.

Looking at the directories directly
under /home/nick/rtems/git/rtems/c/src/lib/libbsp/arm might do it? Think
you've found that, though...

> I have a beaglebone black, whose cpu is am3359, a cortex a8 cpu.
>  
> Realview_pbx may be a good start point,  which has a cortex a9 cpu.
> Is there anything special I should keep in mind when I do the bsp
> migration ? 

I've never done that I'm afraid, so don't have anything to suggest.

Good luck!
-- 
Nick Withers

Embedded Systems Programmer
Room 2.26, Building 57
Department of Nuclear Physics
Research School of Physics and Engineering
The Australian National University (CRICOS: 00120C)

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> 2014/1/15 Nick Withers <nick.withers at anu.edu.au>
>         On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 08:43 +0800, Tom Smith wrote:
>         > Hi huber
>         >
>         > Can you give me a hint  why I should get a native c
>         compiler ?   I am
>         > just building for arm architecture.
>         
>         
>         Right, but you don't have a C compiler, so you can't build
>         anything for
>         your host that requires a C compiler.
>         
>         "sudo yum install gcc" perhaps?
>         
>         > And  I am wondering  what should be specified after
>         > `--enable-rtemsbsp=',  I read the online doc page,
>         >
>         http://www.rtems.org/onlinedocs/releases/rtemsdocs-4.10.1/share/rtems/html/started/started00062.html
>         >  but I can't find the README.configure file.
>         
>         
>         That's for an older version of RTEMS than you're trying to
>         build (which
>         is apparently 4.11, from an earlier email from you).
>         
>         Have you seen
>         http://www.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/Quick_Start ?
>  
>  
>         
>         > So what is the available bsp names ?
>         
>         
>         I don't personally know, I'm afraid. Do you actually have
>         hardware
>         you're building for? Are you wanting to run in a simulator?
>         
>  
>  
>         > thanks
>         
>         --
>         Nick Withers
>         
>         Embedded Systems Programmer
>         Room 2.26, Building 57
>         Department of Nuclear Physics
>         Research School of Physics and Engineering
>         The Australian National University (CRICOS: 00120C)
>         
>         eMail: nick.withers at anu.edu.au
>         Phone: +61 2 6125 2091
>         Mobile: +61 414 397 446