From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1a44c40a66c293f3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:40:45 -0600 From: "Steve" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1172192349.419694.274670@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Preferred OS, processor family for running embedded Ada? Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:41:57 -0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.111.245 X-Trace: sv3-6JI4nR1P+semCOuHMRBCEi1XAreDhEvjCGyRtPt3MF0G/SZrMtDehqamILzSzA7vitIn7k3bAHYubDw!7gW9myJsalD5zCz1gOBAiWpMXTNVR39D27RRdMZ1BJLyM+RZ22Qw6xy6h925NS13wX2p2F+5/bmX!29+PhR4oFDxRgg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9438 Date: 2007-02-22T20:41:57-08:00 List-Id: Two free RTOS I am aware of are RTEMS and MaRTE: http://www.rtems.com/wiki/index.php/RTEMSAda and: http://marte.unican.es/ These both work with GNAT. Regards, Steve (The Duck) "Mike Silva" wrote in message news:1172192349.419694.274670@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > First a bit of background. I'm a longtime embedded programmer and a > dabbler in Ada (I'd use it more if I could get paid for it). Now I'd > like to play around with Ada on a single-board computer. I have no > particular goals in mind other than to try something "neat". So, what > is likely to be the quickest, most foolproof way for me to get from > here to there? > > I'm assuming I'll want an OS on the board for the runtime stuff. > Would one of the *BSDs or Linux be the way to go? If so and given my > intentions, would there be a reason to choose one over the other? My > contrary side wants to try a *BSD, but I have no experience in any of > them _or_ Linux. > > And what about processor family? I was thinking ARM or Coldfire or > PPC (something in the MPC5xx family maybe). Again, would there be an > Ada- or OS-related reason to choose one over the others? > > I did ask an abbreviated version of this question at the bottom of > another thread, but I'm hoping this thread will have more visibility. > So, is all of this do-able by a mere mortal? Many thanks for any > advice! >