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On 6/9/2015 9:44 PM, Tero Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 9.6.2015, 15:02, Simon Wright wrote:
>> Looking for some input on priorities for work.
>>
>> * ?
> 
> These days I try to avoid building (cross-)gnat as much as possible,
> since usually it is pretty painful (read: time consuming). Also, that is
> one reason why I prefer to toy with AVRs instead of Cortex-Mx ARMs.
> 
> So, STM32F4 GNAT runtime in a ready-to-run package would be nice.

I agree; i have an STM32F4 disco board; but frankly speaking i am using
C since i don't want to spend the time to compile the stuff.

Some libs i can port my self if i need them

Regards
   Michael

> 
> Ideally, you should need only one command for installation and another
> for compiling the app:
> $ sudo apt-get install stm32f4-gnat
> $ stm32f4-gnatmake -XBOARD=nucleof401re myproject
> 
>> * Other MCUs.
> 
> STM32F4 series (F407, F405, F4x1RE) has been ok, also Atmel's
> SAM D20/D21 Cortex-M0+ MCUs seem reasonable. Some day, it would be
> interesting to run Ada on NXP's multicore LPC43xx (M4 and M0+) MCUs.
> 
> On the other hand, I don't really like Freescale's Kinetis series.
> I don't find the datasheets as easy to read as Atmel's or ST's
> datasheets. In addition, there are not that many (decent) evaluation
> boards available for Kinetis MCUs.
> 
> Yours,
>  Tero