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

[MRE <Marc.Enzmann@web.de>]

On 17 Jul., 18:29, Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauh...@maps.futureapps.de>
wrote:
> 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.

In fact yes. I am currently trying to get a tool vendor to support
a research proposal in that direction. Still: my ressources are
restricted. Sigh!