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Re: eCos porting to MPC8555 with WiMax board
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: madhulingeswara reddy vennapusa <madhu dot lingeswar at gmail dot com>
- Cc: ecos-devel <ecos-devel at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:59:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: eCos porting to MPC8555 with WiMax board
- References: <50b56d240801290044g33ba3dd4re852d79a243a09ff@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:14:08PM +0530, madhulingeswara reddy vennapusa wrote:
> hai all,
> I am tring to port ecos to MPC 8555 processor with WiMax
> board. I found major areas that needs to be change and those are
> serial,ethernet drivers, inturrupt handling, memory management. now my
> quetions are
>
> Does porting eCos to a new processor depend on both processor and board?
Yes.
You should separate out the processor from the board. You should have
packages which can be used for any MPC 8555 and packages which can be
used just for your MPC 8555 on your board. Doing it like this allows
the generic MPC 8555 packages to be used with another board which has
an MPC8555.
Andrew