Re: [ECOS] Porting to H8S

["hansi hansi" <hansi86 at hotmail dot com>]

>From: Bart Veer <bartv@redhat.com>
>Reply-To: bartv@redhat.com
>To: hansi86@hotmail.com
>CC: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
>Subject: Re: [ECOS] Porting to H8S
>Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:24:24 GMT
>
> >>>>> " " == hansi hansi <hansi86@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>      > I have in mind that eCos is designed for 16, 32 and 64bit CPUs,
>      > isn't it?
>
>Correct, although to date it has only really been ported to 32-bit
>CPUs. There is no fundamental reason why eCos could not be ported to
>64-bit platforms, but obviously there may well be problems lurking
>here and there. To date nobody has contributed patches related to
>64-bit support or paid for Red Hat to do the relevant work.
>
>Similarly it should be possible to run eCos on at least some 16-bit
>CPUs, although that term is rather more ambiguous than 32-bit or
>64-bit.
>
>      > I'm sure that the work would not be easy.
>      > Another thing that I saw is that the GNUPro tools not supports
>      > ELF with the H8. Is this a problem?
>
>That is likely to be a problem. Some of the compiler/linker
>functionality that eCos uses, e.g. constructor priority ordering, are
>relatively easy when using ELF image format but not with older
>formats.
>
>Bart

Is the problem for a to old implementation of the compiler or is the problem 
inside the COFF format. Do you think that there is a way to make an port to 
the H8S?

Thanks
Hansi

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