Hello Richard, On Friday 13 of June 2014 17:33:39 Richard Rauch wrote: > > Von: [email protected] [mailto:ecos-discuss- > > [email protected]] Im Auftrag von Jerzy Dyrda > > Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Juni 2014 17:15 > > An: eCos Discussion > > Betreff: [ECOS] Fwd: New features required on Cortex-M platform > > > > During developing some application on Cortex-M controller I realized that > is > > missing some vital components in current version of eCos system (from my > > point of view) i.e : > > > > 1) HTTP server - AHTTPD doesn't support lwIP stack what causes that it's > > useless. > > I'm planing to modify it thus any kind of advises are welcome. > > > > 2) Small embedded GUI working directly on display. From my side I propose > > uGFX -> http://ugfx.org/ License seems to be compatible and due its nature > > porting on new platform shouldn't be complicated even for me :) I'm also > > planning to add support and again any kind of comments advices or warnings > > are expecting. > > > > 3) SD bus support. I know that I can use SD card in SPI mode but on some > board > > like STM32F4DISCOVERY SD card i only available on SD bus. > > It's high time to add this miss part of system.
> > A few comments and questions from my side: > > - what is the advantage of uGFX? Are there applications available, which are > based on uGFX? What do you think about support for QT ( > http://qt-project.org/ )? Sorry but I feel confused. How can I use QT application on Cortex-M equipped with eCos? I use QT for Host side developing but I didn't expect that possible to run it on target. > - SD card interface. Unfortunately this is very processor specific. Each > Microcontroller has its own IP for accessing SD card. But only low level SD bus driver. Upper layer for MMC/SD card is common. > We have made it e.g. > for Xilinx Zynq > (http://tiprom.itrgmbh.com/projects/ecos-on-zynq/wiki/ECosOnZynq-Wiki ), but > I assume it is not re-usable for other platforms! Did you add any layer to access MMC/SD card via SD bus similar to mmc-spi.c from CYGPKG_DEVS_DISK_MMC package? Best regards, jerzy -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
