[En-Nut-Discussion] Ethernut on TI's Cortex-M3 (Stellaris LM3S...)

[Uwe Bonnes]

>>>>> "Philipp" == Philipp Burch <phip at hb9etc.ch> writes:

    Philipp> Hi everyone, I'm working on a little I/O board featuring an
    Philipp> LM3S9D90 and an FPGA.  Until some time ago I'd planned not to
    Philipp> use an OS at all and implement a simplistic cooperative
    Philipp> multitasking framework on my own. Well, that was before I've
    Philipp> heard of the Ethernut project which looks very promising for
    Philipp> this project.

    Philipp> Anyway, I've fetched the latest sources from Subversion and
    Philipp> built them.  I then noticed that there even already exists a
    Philipp> dk-lm3s9b96 target of which I've got a board for testing. 

It seems the dk-lm3s9b96 conf file is all that is done for LM3/4. There are
no stellaris directories under nut/arch/cm3/dev/ and nut/include/arch/cm3,
so support it nearly non existant.

    Philipp> I (nor the compiler) could not find however, is the specific
    Philipp> include file for this processor. So my question is now if there
    Philipp> is already some work in progress for this processor and it
    Philipp> hasn't been committed yet (or I didn't find it...) 

Ulrich added the conf file, perhaps he has more info. Perhaps 
http://old.nabble.com/NUT-OS-and-lm3s6965-td30984294.html
has also more info

    Philipp> or if I need
    Philipp> to do this from scratch. I suppose I'd need some assistance for
    Philipp> the latter option, as I've never done this before.

Here are some advices from my side.
- Clone the svn repo to a locate "git svn" repo.
- Add some minimal configuration in the nut/conf/ *.nut file.
- Add something like nut/arch/cm3/dev/lm and nut/include/arch/cm3/lm
directories. 
- Looking back at the STM32 port, it would have good if vendor delivered
files would have been added as something like nut/arch/cm3/dev/lm/vendor and 
nut/include/arch/cm3/lm/vendor. Start with adding the original vendor
delivered files untouched and with a clean hint on the source iand version
you added in the commit note. Then make changes to the files inside your
local repo, so that these files can easy be updated later.
- Implement the clock setup
- Implement a GPIO driver 
- Add the board specific header in nut/include/arch/cm3/boards and a like to
that file in nut/include/dev/boards for the board specific setup
- Now test with app/uart.c
- If you implement GPIO then, the examples using the bitbanging drivers
(two-wire, spi, one-wire) should start to work.
- Clean up your repo and consider psuhing to the SVN directory
- Now add drivers at your gusto and keep commiting...
- For the OS-Timer and the whole thread switching you need to do no work, as
that is common to CM3.

    Philipp> And another thing: Is it preferable to use the cm3-ecross-gcc
    Philipp> from Thermotemp or the one that ships with TI's stellarisware?

I use a self compiled yagarto arm-non-eabi- chain. Try to keep vendor
dependancies as minimal as possible. Also have a look at the license of
vendor delivered files. Something like the old luminary license should not
slip in again, see http://www.ethernut.de/en/download/index.html under
"Latest Beta Version". However the present TI license seems suitable, also
the disclaimers you have to accept with downloading the code is repelling.

Why do i recommend git? You have the repo local, and you can clean up things
as long as you have not pushed the changes to the official repo. With SVN,
you can't even edit the commit message of the last check-in without much
effort.

B.t.w: what is you environment? If you work with non-Win32, what is your 
programmer and debugger? I consider getting some of the LM4 launchpads too..

Bye
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