[chbot] Cruising aliexpress again!!

[Mark Atherton]

Arrgh, it is quite well hidden.

please post URL + and required incantation when you find it Robin.

-mark



On 24/09/2015 3:59 p.m., Stephen Irons wrote:
>
> If you are happy to waste a few minutes on following circular link 
> chains, then registering with a mailinator email address, you can 
> download Linux-hosted cross-gcc tools for bare metal ARM processors 
> from Mentor Graphics. They bought codesourcery, and try to push their 
> supported tools, but still do provide a free download link.
>
> Unfortunately, they have hidden it quite well, but I tracked down the 
> tools in July. I think it is a tar.gz download, but installs anywhere.
>
> Stephen
>
> On Sep 23, 2015 9:06 PM, "Robin Gilks" <robin at gilks.org 
> <mailto:robin at gilks.org>> wrote:
>
>     Well I was cruising about aliexpress again and thinking about
>     something as
>     cheap as an AVR but quicker and maybe 32 bit so I've got some of
>     these on
>     order.
>
>     http://www.aliexpress.com/item/STM32F103C8T6-ARM-STM32-Minimum-System-Development-Board-Module-For-Arduino/32246273606.html
>
>     I'll have to create low level functions for timer, serial, spi and
>     1-wire
>     but otherwise all the BeRTOS code I already use for various AVR
>     project
>     should just work.
>
>     What I need is a toolchain and a suitable C library for a
>     STM32F103C8T6 so
>     looking for suggestions of either a .deb binary download, the magic to
>     generate a cross compiler in OpenWRT or some other way (I used to use
>     Gentoo crossdev but am now on Debian!).
>
>     No idea if the devices I have ordered have any sort of boot loader
>     (am I
>     right in thinking the STM32 series has a serial loader in mask
>     ROM?) so I
>     have a cheap st-link V2 on order as well!
>
>     So that's half of this months toys, what to get with the other half :)
>
>     --
>     Robin Gilks
>
>
>
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