Re: [PATCH] add basic SPARC support

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>]

David, All,

On Monday 04 April 2011 10:57:39 David Paterson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Yann E. MORIN
> <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
> > Are you sure you want bare-metal? If you are not sure, then you do not
> > want bare-metal, so select 'Linux' as target OS.
> >
> > If you are sure, then maybe you are simply not linking in the required
> > library that has the low-level stuff for your hardware...
> >
> > SPARC bare-metal does not really make sense, IMHO...
> 
> There are quite a few uses of embedded Sparc processors.  The Leon
> in particular is quite popular since it's an open-source version of the
> processor which can be used in system-on-a-chip projects.

Yes, of course. But I would think that the people that do need bare-metal
do indeed know what to do and provide. I would also expect newcomers to
an architecture first get their hands at non-bare-metal to get accustomed
to the stuff prior to doing more complex stuff.

> I'm putting together such a system at the moment, and have most of
> it working now.  The toolchain is pretty much done, and I just need some
> tweaks to the BSP to finish it off :-)

Maybe then you could forward your work here, and even coordonate with Sam
on the Leon stuff. ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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