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Re: Question on Support for AEB 2
- To: Jesper Skov <jskov at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Question on Support for AEB 2
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 06:52:18 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, ecos-maintainers at redhat dot com, "Narayanan, Anita (CTS)" <Nanita at DBSS dot COM>
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
On 16-Oct-2000 Jesper Skov wrote:
>>>>>> "Narayanan," == Narayanan, Anita (CTS) <Nanita@DBSS.COM> writes:
>
> Narayanan> Hi! Recently I have started using eCos for my
> Narayanan> developement work and the target processor i have in mind
> Narayanan> is Arm Evaluation Board 2 (AEB-2). I know there is a
> Narayanan> support for AEB 1. But I need to know the following:
>
>
> Narayanan> * Is there a support for AEB-2?
>
> No. But the AEB-1 rev C has 256 kB. I don't know how much it differs
> from the AEB-2 in other regards.
>
> Narayanan> * If i compile my code using the compilers for AEB 1 and
> Narayanan> connect AEB 2 to the serial port will my code work?
>
> If the boards are similar, use the same CPU, serial lines are the
> same, then it should. But it's impossible to say for sure without
> actually testing it...
Sadly, these are completely different processors, with their own
peripheral sets, etc. I'm quite sure that eCos for AEB-1x won't
run on AEB-2x.
We do have an AEB-2 (Evaluator-7T) in house to do a port for. However,
since it's being done gratis (non contract), it may be a while in coming.