[fpc-devel] BBB / PRUS / M3 and fpc

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

jeppe at j-software.dk wrote:

>> On top of this, the BBB (within the AM335x Chip by TI) provides two
>> additional ARM Cortex M3 processors that are not supposed to run on a
>> formal OS.
>>
>> (How) Is it possible to create software for same using fpc ?
>>
>> - Michael
> 
> Theoretically, yes. If it actually just is a standard Cortex-M3 core 
> then it should work fine, and you would only have to add the RTL stubs, 
> and compiler/arm/cpuinfo.pas+t_embed.pas entries for the cores.
> 
> However, I have a suspicion that it won't be that easy since it's a 
> complex setup, and it's made by TI :)

Apparently there's a kernel module to handle the loading, but the 
sticking point might be that each coprocessor has a limited code space 
(8K?).

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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