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On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 4:32:43 PM UTC+1, Mike Silva wrote:

> >=20
> > Luke.
> IMO having simple tasking (Ravenscar) and suitable timing (delay, delay u=
ntil) would be enough for a great many embedded chores.  Everything else co=
uld build on that core.

Probably, but I have no idea what would go into that. I only use the FSF GN=
AT for licence reasons, I don't want to look at the GPL'd code too closely =
in case I ever duplicate it and cause further legal problems for myself. *J=
ust in case I ever do anything commercial. To get my ZFP runtime, I looked =
at the GNAT pro docs - available on interweb - to see what packages were pr=
ovided and just copied those over from the FSF source. I suppose it would b=
e possible to look at the ravenscar docs to see what packages are needed, b=
ut I'm betting the tasking packages are custom versions that are cut down.
=20
> I'm guessing that this is pretty much what the Lego Mindstorms port has, =
but I haven't looked.

I know that is Ravenscar.

Luke.