Hi,
We have a PowerPC 440 EP (from a AMCC Yosemite evaluation kit) and we are in the process of evaluating OSes for it. The industrial strength ones (like vxWorks) are too much feature-wise and money-wise, so we're hoping to try out uC/OS-II.
If someone has tried to do this before, I have a few questions:
How do you configure it to run on top of u-boot? What commands are used?
Can the porting layer of uC/OS-II use some of the u-boot functions for PCI
and ethernet access?
- Are there any existing instructions on how to build (or create a makefile)
uC/OS-II using the compilers supplied by the ELDK? I keep getting a failure to "find entry symbol _start", even if I include the gcc libraries, crtbegin.o, etc.
I appreciate any help that I can get with my questions. Thanks!
I have a Yosemite board, but haven't tried running uCOS-II on it.
I would suggest creating a uCOS-II port that starts out life as a U-Boot stand-alone application.
This way U-Boot sets up the processor, so your uCOS-II port doesn't have to deal with that.
In the U-Boot stand-alone application, you would create the first uCOS-II task and initialize it. The other tasks would be in the same image loaded by U-Boot.
You might even get away with using U-Boots console routines, however, since they're polled, you might want to create your own. If you do use them, you might want to use a mutex to protect the console routine use in multiple tasks.
This scheme is analogous to starting uCOS-II from DOS in the Labrosse book. It should be possible to exit from uCOS-II back to the U-Boot console too.
Cheers, Dave