Re: [Sdcc-user] uCOS porting, use on our new dev board?

[Bruce B. <bb...@sy...>]

At 08:13 7/14/2000 +0300, <da...@ho...> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am quite surprised that my initial idea about porting uCOS ended up in
>philosophical discussions about open source and if Jean Labrosse is a hero
>or should be burnt in hell.
>
>I'm sorry, but I am slowly fed (pissed off) up by some of these ignorant and
>non productive postings.

I hope I haven't been too ignorant and non-productive.

We may be interested in this whole issue for using sdcc with our
development boards such as uCAN2 which uses the C390 with 24-bit flat
memory mode capability. Our customers have to be able to use the code tools
in commercial products. This is not always possible with the GPL, for
example, so we need to be a bit careful about licensing restrictions.

We are working on a new Dallas development board - for a chip to be
announced this Sep - I can't say more as we are under nondisclosure. I can
say it should generate a lot of interest in the 8051 community when
announced at the embedded systems conference in San Jose this fall. 

We would like to be able to bundle something more than just our assembler -
a compiler, RTOS or kernel of some kind, and debugger. SDCC might be an
option. However we don't have a lot of time to be working with sdcc and
figuring out all this stuff.

I could propose some sort of collaboration where we provide a small number
of free boards to people who could sign an NDA with us to keep things
secret until Sep (might need to sign an NDA with Dallas, too, I don't
know), to help develop some open source tools for this new controller. 

The controller has a simple boot loader in ROM already, so that is fixed in
place.

Interested parties can contact me off-line if that is more appropriate than
using this list.

- Bruce
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