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Re: Port of eCos to 8051 uController?
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:08:09AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > I checked all the lists I could find, and didn't see any
> > successful ports to the 8051 uController. Does anyone know of
> > one, either finished or in progress?
> I suggest you do some more digging on the list archives
>
> 1) The question about 8-bit processors has come up before. eCos does
> not currently support such devices and its considered not trivial
> to make it run on 8bit machines
And the 8051 is a particular bad one. It doesn't even have a
proper stack pointer. I've written a couple simple kernels for
8-bitters like the HC11, and porting something as simple as
those to the 8051 wouldn't have been easy. Porting something
like eCos to 8051 is, IMO, a practical impossibility.
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Grant Edwards
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