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From: Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: STM32F4 GNAT Run Time System - roadmap
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 22:44:58 +0300
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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.

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