On Monday 01 March 2010, Ian wrote: > Are you familiar with the ST and TI licensing? Thanks for the > suggestion. I'm going to look into it a little more, I'm about to start > a few ARM projects.
I don't know about ST's licensing for its CM3 software. TI inherited some rather antagonistic licences from Luminary, but have also said they're looking at fixing some of the issues. I'm not sure when I'd expect such a thing to happen ... but some folk have pointed out that it looks like even public discussion of their calls is not allowed. (Teh big suxx0r!) There's this CMSIS thing, which seems like it's the right idea (vendor-neutral low level code for Cortex-M chips) but which may be hobbled by hardware vendors trying to achieve vendor lock-in through their software libraries. Ditto by compiler vendors. There's some very low level stuff that's reusable, but the next level up "middleware" would seem to suffer politics. (Surprise!!) I've got a pretty simple Cortex-M3 tasking library (GPL'd) that I could share ... timers, mutexes, and all that. That's of course only one of the things a libre Cortex-M software stack would be needing. - Dave _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
