Re: [ECOS] EB40 and EB40A patches

[Daniel Leu <daniel_leu at inicore dot com>]

At 05:02 PM 4/22/2003 +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Daniel Leu wrote:
> > > It is being worked on, but has now been moved off my plate (thank 
> > > goodness I hear you cry, and I agree!).
> >
> > That's great! Any ideas when we can expect it?
>
> It's unfunded work, so you can't _expect_

From your previous email it seemed that is moving forward. So I assumed 
there is something like a floating timetable, like "We are working on it" 
or "planned for this summer".... :)

>  it at all ;-). I suggest making do with Shannon's patch kit for the 
> moment (see the mailing list archives).

I have it working for 2.0alpha, so that's not the issue. We did an eCos 
port of our ARM board that is based on the new AT91 architecture. I would 
love to have it in the archive so that I don't have to patch my files when 
I update eCos.


> > > But not official 2.0.
> >
> > So it will not go into 2.0?
>
> It's too big, too late. It's not _that_ much of an inconvenience for 
> people to use the trunk of course, and it will be a good incentive to 
> think about 2.1 ;-).

I think there is a big miss-understanding. The patches provided by Thomas 
Koeller contain a rearchitecture of the AT91/EB40 and a new Flash support. 
From the past discussion I understand that the changes in the Flash result 
a lot of work. I'm questioning how many users need this. Specially since 
the changes are somewhat controversial. The current Flash driver works with 
EB40.

Looking at the general rearchitecture it doesn't look like a lot of work. 
It is mainly moving of files from one directory to an other... That's why I 
suggested in the past that only the rearchitecture would be included into 
eCos. I think a lot of AT91 based platforms would take advantage of that.

If there is anything that I can do helping it moving into eCos let me know. 
Yes, I know. Funding is the keyword. How about a pizza...?

Thanks,
Daniel 


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