RE: GCC for ARM TDMI

["GERASIMOV,SERGEY (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <sergey_gerasimov at hp dot com>]

Shaun,

In my opinion it would be highly undesirable to add any board specific
components to the compiler, as it is not its responsibility.  If I
understood you correctly you are looking into developing a proprietary BSP
(board support package) for your hardware, which is rather independent of
the compiler, just think, if your company finds it necessary to switch from
gcc to some other compiler vendor?

May be talking to your hardware engineers and researching the web on the
subject of creating bsps will help.

Sergey

-----Original Message-----
From: shaun bradley [mailto:ss_bradley77@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 1:34 AM
To: crossgcc@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: GCC for ARM TDMI


Hi All,

I have been asked to add a hardware abstraction layer for a
product that the company i'm working for is developing.
The product is based around the ARM 7 TDMI. It has a large
number of memory mapped register and a memory map that
includes ROM, RAM & EEPROM. I have never attempted
anything like this before and any direction would be greatly
appreciated. The plan is to add this to the GCC distribution. My
question is where do i start???  :-)  I've been reading all the
documentation i could this last week and it isn't clear how i
would start this development so that it can be easily added to
the GCC package. All hints, tip and suggestions are welcome.

Thanks

Stephen



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