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RE: Port to c166 / c165 utah cpu


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Vandenabeele [mailto:peter.vandenabeele@mind.be]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 22:45
> To: Gary Thomas
> Cc: Roland Ca?ebohm; Geoffrey Cant; 'ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com'
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Port to c166 / c165 utah cpu
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:49:42AM -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 10:41, Roland Caßebohm wrote:
> > > On Montag, 25. November 2002 10:24, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 05:02:50PM +1300, Geoffrey Cant wrote:
> > > > > Hi there, I'm looking for any information regarding a 
> port of eCos to the
> > > > > Infineon/siemens c166 or c165 utah processors. In the 
> archives there
> > > > > seems to be one email from 1999 about a c166 port and 
> I'm wondering if
> > > > > anything came of it.
> > > > >
> > > > > If anyone has any information about eCos and c165 
> chips they could send
> > > > > me, that would be great.
> > > >
> > > > Dear Geoff,
> > > >
> > > > The c165 Utah chip is a 16 bit microcontroller
> > > > (e.g.
> > > > 
> http://www.infineon.com/cgi/ecrm.dll/ecrm/scripts/prod_ov.jsp?
> oid=13746)
> > > >
> > > > To my best knowledge, eCos is only available for 32 bit 
> processors.
> > > >
> > > > Sincerely,
> > > >
> > > > Peter Vandenabeele
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to port eCos to a 16 bit processor?
> > 
> > By design, yes.  However, since we've never done it, expect
> > it to take a little extra effort.
> 
> May I assume this is an eufemism ? (a "little" extra effort)
> 
> Peter

Apologies in advance if I am wrong, but on the eCos web site there is a
link (in Contributions and Third Party Projects) to an Hitachi H8/300 port
for
inclusion in the eCos v2 release
(http://homepage2.nifty.com/ysato/eCos/index.en.html).
These Hitachi Processors are AFAIK classifed as 16 bit by Hitachi
(see http://www.hitachi-eu.com/hel/ecg/products/micro/8_16bit/index.html),
so this
might indicate that a port of eCos to a 16-bit processor has been already
done and
could also be a starting point for porting to another 16 bit processor.

Best Regards,

Roland Rosier

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