ChibiOS Free Embedded RTOS

Eclipse workspaces are such a mess.

Probably the best option would be to create an Eclipse plugin that creates workspaces with all the settings we need reading them from an XML file or similar.

Giovanni

Also googling a little brings out that sharing workspaces is not a good idea...

I've no java programming experience at all, just going to pack a "static" ChibiStudio which defaults to /opt/ChibiStudio, importing projects by hand and trying to replicate the settings we have in the windows version, so it will be ready for Better Embedded. After that we can think about a smart way to manage this

I will be in Florence Sunday, there is no much time left. If it is ready we will have to distribute it directly there.

I prepared 40, ChibiOS branded , pen drives containing ChibiStudio and various other goodies (tools, manuals etc), we could add it on those too.

Giovanni

Wow! Nice merchandising ;D

Going to prepare it right now, if I will not have particular problems I'll upload it on some ftp later today after a test installation on a fresh ubuntu here, to at least have a starting point for linux users...

I'm fighting with a java.lang.NullPointerException when I launch the debug (OpenOCD running).
If I start from your workspace, delete the projects, and import again it works.
If I start with a clean workspace, configuring the debugger in the same way (I've also tried to export/import the launch configuration) I see gdb connects to openocd, write the flash, but then I've this weird error with no more explanation....

Ok, apparently was due to wrong indexing, the demo is working now.

Finally, everything is working. I've uploaded a tar.gz here:
ftp://ftp.elet.polimi.it/users/Martino. ... ew2.tar.gz

There are installation instructions in the readme file, it tooks just three steps: unzip, link to /opt (to get the preset workspace to work), and launch. The only additional step on some distributions is to install a UDEV rule to access USB programmers by non-root users (there is a note in the readme).
I've tested it on a fresh ubuntu installation, tomorrow I'll test on a linux mint distro. I've setup only the two STM32F4-DISCOVERY demos, the other ones are coming.

BTW, I was not able to enumerate the USB serial port on linux, that can be a problem for Better Embedded: do you had success with it?

Strange, the port enumerates and works on mu Ubuntu 10.10 (the discovery MEMS demo).

Giovanni

OK, I'll try to investigate that on my machine (ubuntu 12.04).

I've also noticed that openocd is _not_ statically linked also with --with-static, going to replace it with a "pseudo static" one which includes the shared libraries too..

Ok, USB shell is working. Actually I wasn't loading the correct binary.
The problem was originated by OpenOCD, which had as "working folder" ${project_loc}, and it loaded ./build/ch.bin.. so if I start it from one project and then switch to another project without relaunching OpenOCD it reloads the binary from the previous project. Now I launch OpenOCD with ${workspace_loc} as working directory, and the binary is loaded as ${project_path}/build/ch.bin, which is relative to the workspace.

Now, a new problem: this is for 32-bit architectures. For 64 bit you need different eclipse (or at least a 32-bit jvm). This is pretty annoying, I don't know if there is some way to avoid two separate packages...

Here the update ChibiStudio for linux (32-bit):
ftp://ftp.elet.polimi.it/users/Martino. ... ew3.tar.gz