Re: Why so hard to come up with a simple embedded Ada system?

[Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

On 7/17/10 10:45 AM, MRE wrote:
> Personally I have a
> project up and
> running where three of my students write code in Ada for AVR (8-Bit
> and 32-Bit).
> You can find decent Ada cross-compilers for both and that's what I
> use.
>
> If you ask me however to do a similar thing for say MSP430, sorry I
> can't. I don't
> have a clue how to generate the cross-compiler for Ada and I don't
> know how to
> write / adapt the Ravenscar-Runtime. Furthermore I just don't have the
> time to lern
> it and I lack the ressources to have my students do it.

Is there, in your view, a way to approach the subject as
a cooperative effort, touchy as it may be, with the simpler
goal of gradually improving an AVR run-time system and the tools?
Maybe making it portable where possible so more vendors
become interested?

If PR noise and bureaucratic overhead have shown to be
counterproductive, maybe occasional produce from here
and there is more effective in helping the effort catch on.
An AVR teaching environment could then become visible even
on the radar of those departments where a preference is
for more abstract computer models.