Hi,
I want to use winCE6.0 to bring up OMAP3430 hardware. Does WinCE6.0 support ARM cortex ?
If not, say if we go for porting the same WHich version of ARM bsp I should consider from WinCE6.0 ? Please suggest the same.
Regards
---Visalakshmi.S. 0091 9945278740

Re: OMAP3, WinCE by Paul

Paul
Fri Jun 06 08:23:32 PDT 2008

I think that you're confusing "which processor types are supported" with
"which BSP should I base my code on". The processor type choices are those
which were given when you installed Platform Builder, ARM, SH4, x86, and
MIPS. Windows CE is compiled for what Microsoft calls ARMV4i. There are no
situations where special instructions are compiled into the OS build for
specific processor types or advanced ARM instruction sets. So, the real
question is whether your processor supports all of the instructions in this
instruction set. If it does, you don't have to worry about the processor
any more. If it does not, you can't use it, so redesign the hardware.

Now, we come to where there *will* be work, the BSP. The BSP includes the
bootloader, which has to initialize the default state of your *board* (not
processor, board), components, the drivers unique to your board, and the
low-level kernel stuff that operates the portions of your hardware that
Windows CE doesn't standardize (battery backed-up real-time clock, for
example, which might be in the processor, might be external, or might be
non-existent). You might have to set up the state and direction of
programmable general-purpose I/O pins, select alternate functions for pins
or groups of pins on your particular processor, etc., etc. So, since you
want to do as little of this as possible, you want to choose a starting
place BSP that's designed for a board that has the same functions as your
board. So, we can't tell you which BSP to use; you have to compare those
which are available to the hardware on your design. Check with the
processor vendor, with the board vendor, if you're buying, rather than
designing, the board, and third parties who build BSPs as a business.

Paul T.

<Visalakshmi sadhu> wrote in message
news:20086633449visalakshmi_sadhu@satyam.com...
> Hi,
> I want to use winCE6.0 to bring up OMAP3430 hardware. Does WinCE6.0
> support ARM cortex ?
> If not, say if we go for porting the same WHich version of ARM bsp I
> should consider from WinCE6.0 ? Please suggest the same.
> Regards
> ---Visalakshmi.S. 0091 9945278740
>



Re: OMAP3, WinCE by Dean

Dean
Wed Jun 11 06:28:45 PDT 2008

If you're interested we have one..

http://www.bsquare.com/products/hardware_solutions/3530.asp

--
Dean Ramsier - eMVP
BSQUARE Corporation


"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT
com> wrote in message news:uOWV$k%23xIHA.1980@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I think that you're confusing "which processor types are supported" with
>"which BSP should I base my code on". The processor type choices are those
>which were given when you installed Platform Builder, ARM, SH4, x86, and
>MIPS. Windows CE is compiled for what Microsoft calls ARMV4i. There are
>no situations where special instructions are compiled into the OS build for
>specific processor types or advanced ARM instruction sets. So, the real
>question is whether your processor supports all of the instructions in this
>instruction set. If it does, you don't have to worry about the processor
>any more. If it does not, you can't use it, so redesign the hardware.
>
> Now, we come to where there *will* be work, the BSP. The BSP includes the
> bootloader, which has to initialize the default state of your *board* (not
> processor, board), components, the drivers unique to your board, and the
> low-level kernel stuff that operates the portions of your hardware that
> Windows CE doesn't standardize (battery backed-up real-time clock, for
> example, which might be in the processor, might be external, or might be
> non-existent). You might have to set up the state and direction of
> programmable general-purpose I/O pins, select alternate functions for pins
> or groups of pins on your particular processor, etc., etc. So, since you
> want to do as little of this as possible, you want to choose a starting
> place BSP that's designed for a board that has the same functions as your
> board. So, we can't tell you which BSP to use; you have to compare those
> which are available to the hardware on your design. Check with the
> processor vendor, with the board vendor, if you're buying, rather than
> designing, the board, and third parties who build BSPs as a business.
>
> Paul T.
>
> <Visalakshmi sadhu> wrote in message
> news:20086633449visalakshmi_sadhu@satyam.com...
>> Hi,
>> I want to use winCE6.0 to bring up OMAP3430 hardware. Does WinCE6.0
>> support ARM cortex ?
>> If not, say if we go for porting the same WHich version of ARM bsp I
>> should consider from WinCE6.0 ? Please suggest the same.
>> Regards
>> ---Visalakshmi.S. 0091 9945278740
>>
>
>