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Re: newbie with a board


On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 12:58, Abrar H Hazarika wrote:
> > If it's a C51, it is certainly not supported by eCos and I am affraid
> > that it won't even be possible to port eCos to it. As far as I know,
> > eCos has not (yet) been ported to any 8-bit micro so far. Most important
> 
> I know that there isn't any chance, but wanted to make sure that you meant
> 16 bit micro and not 8 bit as mentioned.

I meant 8 bit (any C51 I ever worked with was 8 bit anyway. Don't know
if there are 16-bit variants). Doesn't make much of a difference though,
there's no port of GCC for the C51 family.

> 
> 
> > reason being that you 'd have to start porting the GNU compiler to it
> > first. And that's still considered to be _hard_ for anything else but 32
> > or 64 bit architectures.
> >
> > IIRC, uC/OS2 can has been ported to the C51 family.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 12:03, Abrar H Hazarika wrote:
> > > The microprocessor as "P51XAG30JBA". It is philips make and the docs say
> > > it's discontinued to make way for P51XAG30KBA. Belongs to the 80C51
> class of
> > > 16 bit micro controller and XA (eXtended Architecture) with 512 bytes of
> > > onchip RAM, 2 UART's.
> > > The ecos docs didn't mention porting to any such arch. Or is this same
> as
> > > one of the already ported arch's.
> > >
> > > Is anyone familiar with porting of ecos to XA?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > abrar
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jonathan Larmour" <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>
> > > To: "Abrar H Hazarika" <abrar at ECOMSCIENCE dot COM>
> > > Cc: <ecos-discuss at SOURCES dot REDHAT dot COM>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:07 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [ECOS] newbie with a board
> > >
> > >
> > > > Abrar H Hazarika wrote:
> > > > > hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am very new to this field. We are asked to work with ecos on a
> board
> > > which
> > > > > has a Texas Inst. TL16C452FN chip on board. The datasheet says it is
> a
> > > UART
> > > > > chip. I am not sure about it being a microprocessor. Is it possible
> to
> > > port
> > > > > ECOS to this chip?
> > > >
> > > > A UART is just a dumb I/O chip :-). There should be some other part on
> the
> > > > board which is the microprocessor. Generally looking for the biggest
> one
> > > > tends to work ;).
> > > >
> > > > Jifl
> > > > --
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> > ir. Bob Koninckx
> > Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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> >
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ir. Bob Koninckx
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Division Production Engineering,                   tel.  +32 16 322535
Machine Design and Automation                      fax.  +32 16 322987
Celestijnenlaan 300B                  bob dot koninckx at mech dot kuleuven dot ac dot be
B-3001 Leuven Belgium               http://www.mech.kuleuven.ac.be/pma
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