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Re: Re: eCos on 80186
>>>>> "Grant" == Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> writes:
Grant> As a purely academic question, what is the "smallest"
Grant> processor/platform to which eCos has been ported? There are
Grant> some fairly "wimpy" processors with gcc support (e.g. 6811,
Grant> AVR), but they tend to have rather limited address spaces
Grant> by eCos standards.
Obviously this depends on the definition of "smallest".
I have RedBoot running on an old vanilla 68000, but haven't finished
the eCos side yet. In terms of transistor count I suspect that is the
smallest - obviously the lack of on-chip peripherals helps.
Anoncvs has support for h8300 and calmrisc16 (the latter RedBoot-only
IIRC). From a computer science/architecture perspective I suspect one
of those two would qualify as "smallest". I have not been involved
with those ports so don't know much about them.
For practical hardware design purposes I suspect the LPC2xxx ARM chips
currently qualify as smallest.
Bart
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