Re: GCC for ARM TDMI

[Yves Rutschle <y dot rutschle at indigovision dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:34:24AM +0100, shaun bradley wrote:
> I have been asked to add a hardware abstraction layer for a
> product that the company i'm working for is developing.
> The product is based around the ARM 7 TDMI. It has a large
> number of memory mapped register and a memory map that
> includes ROM, RAM & EEPROM. I have never attempted
> anything like this before and any direction would be greatly
> appreciated. The plan is to add this to the GCC distribution. My
> question is where do i start???  :-)  I've been reading all the
> documentation i could this last week and it isn't clear how i
> would start this development so that it can be easily added to
> the GCC package. All hints, tip and suggestions are welcome.

What do you want to add in the GCC package?? IMO you simply
need to write drivers/abstraction for whatever your chip
does as a library (or simply a set of macros, depending on
the complexity of what it is doing). Certainly you don`t
want to change the compiler to do something like that.

Cheers,
Y.


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