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Re: Which ARM7 HAL to emulate?
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 15 Oct 2002 06:57:42 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Which ARM7 HAL to emulate?
- References: <20021014215308.A30460@grante.dsl.visi.com>
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 20:53, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> If a guy was about to do a HAL for an ARM7 (little endian), which of the
> ARM7 HALs would be the best one to use as an example? Specifically, it's a
> HAL for one of the Sharp parts on a custom board.
>
> Which of the ARM7 HALs has implimented things in the cleanest, most
> "correct" way? The HAL I did for an ARM7 board was been migrated somewhat
> inelegantly from pre-VV days (when it was written by somebody with only half
> a clue (me)). It's a bit of a mess, so I wouldn't tell anybody to use it as
> an example.
The ARM9 and StrongArm (SA11x0) are probably the best ones to look
at. Both of them are arch/variant/platform based, which is the way
we see the future for ports.
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