On 2005-09-03, Richard <n...@thanks.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks very much for any advice.  Recommendations of options I haven't
>> considered would be welcome as well.
>> Randall
>
>
> Hi Randall,
>
> Sorry for a rather rushed reply.  There are the new AT91SAM7X devices from
> Atmel as a low cost ARM solution.  These have an inbuilt MAC peripheral.
>
> I have recently got FreeRTOS.org running with both uIP / IAR and lwIP / GCC.
> Take a look at:
> http://www.FreeRTOS.org/portsam7xiar.html and
> http://www.FreeRTOS.org/portsam7xlwIP.html
>
> (these are direct links so you will not see the menu frame).
>
> There are drivers for the MAC and demo WEB server applications to get you
> started.  Maybe of interest?

Yes, this looks good -- both the AT91SAM7X line and FreeRTOS.  The
problem is, I can't find the SAM7X line anywhere, and Atmel's website
says the product status is "sampling".  How/where did you get you get
your hands on it?

Thanks,

-- 
Randall

On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 02:51:19 GMT, Randall Nortman
<u...@wonderclown.com> wrote:

>> Try this:
>>
>> http://www.zilog.com/products/partdetails.asp?id=eZ80F910200ZCO
>>
>> with this microcontroller:
>>
>> http://www.zilog.com/products/partdetails.asp?id=eZ80F91
>>
>> Development is very easy - the developer kit (99$) comes with everything you
>> need - including JTAG/ZDS debugger, IDE with compiler/assembler and RTOS
>> with TCP/IP, HTTP/SMTP/FTP/SNMP/... The controller is about 12$ and gives
>> you Fast Ethernet.
>
>I'm guessing that IDE is Windows-only?  I prefer to do my development
>on Linux, though if everything else about the chip turns out to be
>perfect, I could accept working on Windows.  

Yes, its Windows.  

>Any license fees for the
>RTOS and TCP/IP stack?

No. It's all included in the 99$ for the DevKit.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Frank-Christian Krügel

David Kelly wrote:
> 
> Ethernut and kin present a license problem. Decided it would require a 
> non-trivial effort to sort out the parts infected with GPL to ensure my 
> finished product hand none. Its perfectly fine to build with GPL tools 
> or link LGPL code, but not GPL code.

We take every effort to keep the code conformant to BSD licence or
at least to LGPL. In fact, the origin of Nut/OS had been Liquorice
(by Dave Hudson, available at SourceForge), which got LGPL. Every
code we wrote had been published under BSDL. Some parts had been
taken from BSD itself or from public domain code (good ol' TCP/IP
days). Nut/OS links to platform libraries like avrlib-c, which
are either LGPL or BSDL.

Some of the tools, like the wxWidget based Configurator, are
indeed GPLed and I recently decided to publish other tools under
the same licence. None of these will be required in the final
system.

Nut/OS is used in a number of commercial products, a few of them
are listed at
http://www.ethernut.de/en/community/appliances.html

But in general you're right. One should carefully check the
licence requirements before using Open Source for embedded
systems.

Harald