From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3942DDDB.B4819928@home.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 17:31:23 -0700 From: Larry Battraw MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: PPCBoot (previous 8xxROM) Project update References: <20000610222130.A6019@raphael.bossek.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hello, I thought I'd mention a project I have worked on for 403-based boards... It's called PPCForth (http://ppcforth.sourceforge.net). It is currently targeted for the IBM 403, as I don't have an 8xx board to try it on yet (this is a goal for the future). It is rom-able so you can boot directly from it, and has some ifdef's to slim the code down to as little as 10K or as large as 30K. It accepts S records over the serial port for loading other software. Unfortunately it is written in assembly, but then it's really small, right? ;-) Anyway, I've used it for a couple years and gradually improved it. I released it recently under the GPL, so hopefully it will be useful to someone. Oh, and it is (as may be obvious) a small implementation of FORTH which is handy for testing and small programs, although I went overboard and included multitasking and a lot of low-level device control words. Larry Raphael Bossek wrote: > > Hi, > > updated the http://ppcboot.sourceforge.net/ project homepage and launched a > mailing list at http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/ppcboot-users/. > Everybody interestend on the PPCBoot development should subscribe. > Announcements will be posted to ppcboot-announce and linuxppc-embedded :) > > At the moment I have to merge patches from Rudi Hofer, David Brown, and Duncan Palmer > received until now before the CVS tree will work. > Found that the 8xxROM sources will become a problem to maintain if they stay in their > form as they today are! I think that one possible project goal will be the > maintainbility improvement of the sources and a configuration frontend :) > > Project members : > - Dan A. Dickey > - Wolfgang Denk > > -- > Raphael Bossek [ICQ #40047651] > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/