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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,338a248ed46255c6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny08.POSTED!c9e1c1fe!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Creem User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: hardware architectures to run Ada on in 2008 References: <7cdbcbe0-5e09-4402-b7a8-a98cf85744b9@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <7cdbcbe0-5e09-4402-b7a8-a98cf85744b9@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:15:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.168.105.230 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny08 1203704101 71.168.105.230 (Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:15:01 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:15:01 EST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19982 Date: 2008-02-22T18:15:01+00:00 List-Id: Yochi Choresh wrote: > How weird does it sound, > to intend to run GNAT compiled code on a PowerPC on top of some Linux > kernelor L > as the embedded system steering e.g. a drone? > > Or is this something, that the industry has been doing already for a > couple of years? > > Y. It does not sound weird at all. It is also (as far as I know) not a configuration that is currently listed as having GNATPro support available for it which is not to say that you could not get support if you asked. Various Linux kernels have gotten quite a bit better in the last few years with respect to real-time performance. I would expect a more typical configuration for the application you suggest would be vxWorks or LynxOS running on a powerPC running GNAT code. If you open beyond GNAT to other Ada compilers than things like Greenhills and a few others would also become possibilities.