Reply by "Jesper K. Pedersen" June 9, 20102010-06-09
> On Wednesday 09 June 2010 09:48:53 Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
> Have a look at the Lejos project. This runs a small Java virtual machine
> on
> the SAM7 inside the Lego Mindstorms.
>
> This device runs lots of different interrupts and uses priorities, nested
> interrupts, etc... pretty much all the stuff you need to learn.
>
> http://lejos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lejos/trunk/nxtvm/platform/nxt/

Unfortunately this is one of the many projects that I briefly looked at
but never got to compile - due to a problem in their Makefile.

When running "make" this is the output I get :
Building:

C objects: aic.o systick.o udp.o twi.o nxt_spi.o nxt_motors.o data_abort.o
display.o i2c.o sound.o bt.o hs.o printf.o main.o nxt_avr.o sensors.o
nxt_lcd.o native.o platform_hooks.o flashprog.oram jvm_interpreter.o
jvm_threads.o jvm_exceptions.o jvm_memory.o jvm_language.o jvm_poll.o
jvm_debug.o

Assembler objects: interrupts.o vectors.o init.o irq.o

LD source: sam7.lds

CC arm-elf-gcc
LD /usr/local/arm/arm-elf/bin/ld
OBJCOPY /usr/local/arm/arm-elf/bin/objcopy
OBJDUMP /usr/local/arm/arm-elf/bin/objdump
LIBGCC /usr/local/arm/lib/gcc/arm-elf/4.4.2/thumb/interwork/libgcc.a
LIBC /usr/local/arm/arm-elf/lib/thumb/interwork/libc.a
LIBM /usr/local/arm/arm-elf/lib/thumb/interwork/libm.a

make: *** No rule to make target `lejos_nxt_rom.bin', needed by `all'. Stop.

I really wonder if I should stop at the "Hello World!" repeated 50 times
and start playing tic-tac-toe and forget about microcontrollers (seems
that I have gotten too old for learning ;)
>> I am very much interested in an example software showing the workings of
>> even just a "simple" (massive understatement) interrupt.
>>
>> As I can only access my board via the Samba it must be either running
>> from ram or able to be programmed in flash via Samba (I do not have any
>> jtag connection available).
>>
>> My system consist of :
>>
>> Developement server running :
>>
>> Debian 5.0
>> arm-elf-gcc (GCC) 4.4.2 + tools (ie. ld and so on)
>> newlib-1.18
>> Sam_I_Am v0.5
>> Microcontroller host :
>>
>> Olimex dev. board - SAM7P256 (hosted with AT91SAM7S256)
>> Any hints/suggestions are greatly appreciated as any "down to earth"
>> documentation seems hard to find.
>>
>> Best regards
>> JesperKP
>> Just another confused hobbyist trying to learn the SAM7 concept
>

Reply by Charles Manning June 8, 20102010-06-08
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 09:48:53 Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
Have a look at the Lejos project. This runs a small Java virtual machine on
the SAM7 inside the Lego Mindstorms.

This device runs lots of different interrupts and uses priorities, nested
interrupts, etc... pretty much all the stuff you need to learn.

http://lejos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lejos/trunk/nxtvm/platform/nxt/
> I am very much interested in an example software showing the workings of
> even just a "simple" (massive understatement) interrupt.
>
> As I can only access my board via the Samba it must be either running
> from ram or able to be programmed in flash via Samba (I do not have any
> jtag connection available).
>
> My system consist of :
>
> Developement server running :
>
> Debian 5.0
> arm-elf-gcc (GCC) 4.4.2 + tools (ie. ld and so on)
> newlib-1.18
> Sam_I_Am v0.5
> Microcontroller host :
>
> Olimex dev. board - SAM7P256 (hosted with AT91SAM7S256)
> Any hints/suggestions are greatly appreciated as any "down to earth"
> documentation seems hard to find.
>
> Best regards
> JesperKP
> Just another confused hobbyist trying to learn the SAM7 concept

Reply by "Jesper K. Pedersen" June 8, 20102010-06-08
I am very much interested in an example software showing the workings of
even just a "simple" (massive understatement) interrupt.

As I can only access my board via the Samba it must be either running
from ram or able to be programmed in flash via Samba (I do not have any
jtag connection available).

My system consist of :

Developement server running :

Debian 5.0
arm-elf-gcc (GCC) 4.4.2 + tools (ie. ld and so on)
newlib-1.18
Sam_I_Am v0.5
Microcontroller host :

Olimex dev. board - SAM7P256 (hosted with AT91SAM7S256)
Any hints/suggestions are greatly appreciated as any "down to earth"
documentation seems hard to find.

Best regards
JesperKP
Just another confused hobbyist trying to learn the SAM7 concept