Hi Michael I too am planning to switch to 'sitara' AM3517 SBCs from at91sam9263. Hope there would be an effort to an fpc port to this board on linux-uclibc.
regards Nataraj On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Michael Schnell <mschn...@lumino.de> wrote: > On 07/09/2010 01:22 PM, ik wrote: > > > Does FPC capable of supporting > blackfin<http://www.analog.com/en/embedded-processing-dsp/processors/index.html>(and > others in it's family) CPU ? > It seems that more and more embedded projects starting to use it. > > No. > > In fact I did a (quite low priority) research on how to port FPC to a new > CPU such as NIOS and Blackfin and found that it of course is doable somehow. > While NIOS seems to look more doable, as it's quite similar to MIPS (and > ARM), Blackfin has a much more complex instruction set with a huge potential > for low-level optimization. Thus I suppose Blackfin is quite hard to do. > > OTOH I have the impression that the real winner with embedded projects will > be ARM (especially Cortex) and here Linux is getting interesting for even > lower-size and higher-Volume projects. So I am shifting my interests towards > Linux enabled embedded ARM chips (like the TI AM1x and AM3x "Sitara" series > that has been introduced in 2010 and feature a RISK coprocessor for hard > realtime / virtual peripheral stuff). > > -Michael > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > >
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