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Re: Port to c166 / c165 utah cpu


On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:49:42AM -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 10:41, Roland Caßebohm wrote:
> > On Montag, 25. November 2002 10:24, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 05:02:50PM +1300, Geoffrey Cant wrote:
> > > > Hi there, I'm looking for any information regarding a port of eCos to the
> > > > Infineon/siemens c166 or c165 utah processors. In the archives there
> > > > seems to be one email from 1999 about a c166 port and I'm wondering if
> > > > anything came of it.
> > > >
> > > > If anyone has any information about eCos and c165 chips they could send
> > > > me, that would be great.
> > >
> > > Dear Geoff,
> > >
> > > The c165 Utah chip is a 16 bit microcontroller
> > > (e.g.
> > > http://www.infineon.com/cgi/ecrm.dll/ecrm/scripts/prod_ov.jsp?oid=13746)
> > >
> > > To my best knowledge, eCos is only available for 32 bit processors.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > Peter Vandenabeele
> > 
> > Is it possible to port eCos to a 16 bit processor?
> 
> By design, yes.  However, since we've never done it, expect
> it to take a little extra effort.

May I assume this is an eufemism ? (a "little" extra effort)

Peter

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