Re: Devices for embedded GNUstep development

[David Chisnall]

On 27 May 2008, at 07:00, hns@computer.org wrote:

> The next thing is that there is no recent update for the N770. Only
> the 800 and 810.
> And, they have switched to EABI - for which I don't have a working
> compiler.

There is a community back-port of the latest N800 OS to the 770 (OS  
2007 Hackers Edition) which might be worth investigating.  I've not  
tried it (my 770 is still running OS 2005, I think), but a friend has  
and claims it is an improvement.  Possibly not a great development  
platform, but definitely worth exploring.

To be honest, there's not a huge amount of the built-in 770 software  
I'd want to keep.  The kernel (well, not ideally, but I think it's the  
only kernel that will run there), X server, browser and something for  
configuring the bluetooth stack to talk to my mobile phone is about  
all that I wouldn't want to replace with something more *STEPy.

Is there a major problem with moving your toolchain to use the new  
ABI?  It seems to be well-supported in modern versions of GCC (and  
OABI isn't supported at all by LLVM) and has a number of advantages,  
particularly in terms of floating point performance.

David