On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Kelvin Lawson <i...@atomthreads.com> wrote: > Hi Drasko, > Only last week an Atomthreads user contributed a simulator for the Windows > environment, that runs Atomthreads threads within a single Windows thread. > He has dubbed this "Atomvm" and it is a separate port within the ports tree. > I only just received this and have not had time to try it out or push it to > Github yet, but I could send you the contributed ZIP separately if you are > interested. Do you really need an Atomthreads dedicated simulator ? What would be benefit of OS dedicated simulator ? I think that it would be safer to use well tested simulator soulutions (for example qemu can be used for many ARM achitectures, and SkyEye for ARM7TDMI).
> I realise you mention Linux-based, but you could do this within a Windows > VM. I'm not sure how well Visual C++ Express runs within Wine. I never had a luck with Wine :(. Configuring and porting would take too much time... > Other than this, I did have a look at a couple of the AVR simulators a few > months ago. Simavr looked the most promising but I did not get as far as > creating the necessary infrastructure to bring up Atomthreads with a UART > for testing. I took a look at Simavr site - seems promising. I will try to configure this one. It seems to have all that I need. As I understand, your AVR port is for ATmega128 ? Simavr has support for this SoC and gdb support to look what is happening... > In time I would like to create a Linux equivalent of the Atomvm, but I'll > likely be personally concentrating on some of the other architecture ports > first. Perhaps it would be fairly simple to create a Linux one using the > contributed Windows version as example. > Let me know if you'd like to see the Atomvm contribution. Problem is that I am not AVR expert. I prefer ARM architecture which I know better, and I am afraid that it would demand AVR specifics learning. I just requested simulator in order to be able to quickly run Atomthreads and have try so I can get idea how it works exactly. For the moment I'd like to concentrate on ARM7 port of Atomthreads, and I guess in the meantime you'll have Atomvm under git already. Then, if we find it useful, I could work on it's Linux port. Thanks for the support and kind regards, Drasko
