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

["Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.invalid>]

Steve D wrote:

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>> I'll just come out and say it - for a language that was designed for
>> as much for embedded applications as for anything, it seems to be
>> maddeningly difficult to actually get Ada on a modest embedded
>> platform.  By modest I mean low-end 32 bits, no MMU.  ARM7 or Cortex
>> Mx would be my first choice.  I can be up and running on such a
>> platform with C and a tasking library in a day (Rowley Crossworks,
>> nice package).  Why can't I do the same with Ada?  Or rather, to avoid
>> making this about me, why can't an embedded programmer - student,
>> hobbyist or professional - who's heard about Ada and wants to give it
>> a spin, including hard-realtime concurrency, just do it?
>>
>> If Ada fans (I include myself) want to see Ada get more exposure, this
>> seems like not only a desirable step but a necessary one.  I can run C
>> on a thousand such boards, and I can't (AFAIK) run Ada on one.
>>
>> Maybe this is all available, and I just haven't found out where.  Then
>> that's a problem too, but I'll be happy to hear about it.
>>
>> All comments welcome.
> 
> The closest I have come is RTEMS http://www.rtems.com.
> 
> I haven't looked at it for a while, but there has generally been good Ada
> support.

Hanging down under this RTEMS thread...

May be there's some useful pointer in this old thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_thread/thread/75412f14b0c43a2d/17482244d75fb19a

Also there's MaRTE OS, but I don't know if it targets anything else besides 
x86:

http://marte.unican.es