2014-05-30 00:40:09 +01:00
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This is experimental, community-supported port for Cortex-M emulation as
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2014-07-02 18:30:46 +01:00
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provided by QEMU (http://qemu.org).
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2014-05-30 00:40:09 +01:00
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The purposes of this port are to enable:
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1. Continuous integration
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- run tests agains architecture-specific parts of code base
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2. Experimentation
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- simulation & prototyping of anything that has architecture-specific
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code
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- exploring instruction set in terms of optimising some part of
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MicroPython or a module
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3. Streamlined debugging
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- no need for JTAG or even an MCU chip itself
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- no need to use OpenOCD or anything else that might slow down the
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process in terms of plugging things together, pressing buttons, etc.
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This port will only work with with [GCC ARM Embedded](launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded)
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toolchain and not with CodeSourcery toolchain. You will need to modify
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`LDFLAGS` if you want to use CodeSourcery's version of `arm-none-eabi`.
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The difference is that CodeSourcery needs `-T generic-m-hosted.ld` while
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ARM's version requires `--specs=nano.specs --specs=rdimon.specs` to be
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passed to the linker.
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