[chbot] Cruising aliexpress again!!

[Stephen Irons]

On 24 September 2015 at 05:18, Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Arrgh, it is quite well hidden.
>
> please post URL + and required incantation when you find it Robin.
>
> -mark
>

They now have the note

     ARM & Intel Processors

     Sourcery CodeBench Lite releases for ARM EABI, ARM GNU/Linux, ARM
AARCH64-Linux, IA32/IA64 GNU/Linux and ELF are no longer available.

And, now that I think about it, what I actually did in July was register
for the evaluation version, downloaded and install them, using a
client-supplied email address (not my personal one, as I don't want to get
junk mail from them). Now that I have a copy of the gcc tools (gcc,
binutils, etc), GPL lets me continue to use them.

They don't seem to have build any timebomb into gcc. I did not use their
(Eclipse-based) tool -- that is most likely where they put the evaluation
timebomb.

Stephen Irons


>
>
> 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> 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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