[ECOS] [porting]<sh3 7709a>

[Jesper Skov]

>>>>> "Jeroen" == Jeroen Buyck <rtos_eindwerk@hotmail.com> writes:

Jeroen> hello, we're two students who have to make a thesis on
Jeroen> rtos. One aspect of our thesis is to put eCos on a on-board
Jeroen> computer (for trucks). The on-board computer consists of a sh3
Jeroen> 7709a hitachi processor and 16MB flash and 4MB RAM.

This CPU variant is supported. You'll probably need special platform
initialization code.

Jeroen> We have no experience at all and we have studied the tutorials
Jeroen> of eCos but we don't understand where to begin. Could we use
Jeroen> the stubs from the EDK7708 evalution platform ? How do we
Jeroen> adapt the HAL-layer ? How do we port the kernel ? What do we
Jeroen> need at least to build a kernel with a minimum of
Jeroen> functionality ?

See the porting guide:
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/docs-latest/porting/

Jesper