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Re: porting eCos to mips board
- To: wjasper at tx dot ncsu dot edu
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] porting eCos to mips board
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 21:54:28 +0100
- CC: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <200005231826.OAA03117@lx40.tx.ncsu.edu>
Warren Jasper wrote:
>
> I am trying to port eCos to a new board. It has
> a MIPS QED 5231 CPU, 64 MB Ram and a assorted hardware
> in FPGA.
>
> In building the cross development environemnt, is the
> mips64vr4300-elf-* the correct target for this chip?
> Does anybody know the differences between the vr4300
> and the QED 5231 or are they similar enough to comipile eCos?
They should be similar enough. You may want to use the -mcpu=r5000 compiler
flag though.
> To make a new target, do I just copy the tree from
> /opt/ecos/ecos-1.3.1/packages/hal/mips/vrc4373
> and edit each file appropriately?
That's probably the easiest way to start certainly.
Jifl
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