Some basic questions (coming from WinAVR)

phil wrote:

> First, thank-you Martin Thomas for putting together this great
> collection of tools for the ARM.  Thanks to your examples I quickly had
> an LED blinking on my hardware.

I'm glad that the collection is useful for you.

> I've done quite a bit of embedded programming but I'm not very familiar
> with the GCC compilation process.  I've been using WinAVR for a while
> now and so most of my questions are about the differences between WinAVR
> and WinARM.  From my understanding, when you start a new WinARM project
> you need to provide a startup file (crt0.S) and a linker script (such as
> LPC2106-ROM.ld), in addition to the makefile, source, and header files.
>
> How do the startup file and linker script differ from processor to
> processor or from project to project?

Usualy they just differ from processor/target to target. Sometimes I
have modified startup and linker-skripts for special tasks but for the
beginning it should be ok to copy the files from the examples.

> In particular, I want to create a project using the LPC2103.  Can I just
> copy the LPC2106-ROM.ld script and change the memory sizes to match the
> LPC2103 or is there more involved?

I do not own a LPC2103, adapting the memory-sizes might be enough but
I'm not sure.

> Do I need to make any changes to the crt0.S file to make it work for
> this new processor?  Do I need to make changes to this file to use
> various interrupts?

I don't think that you need to change the startup-code in terms for
interrupt-handling, but you will see different approaches. Some
developers use "interrupt wrappers" to call ISR others use macros inside
ISRs. I currently don't remember of a "wrapper"-example for LPC is in
the examples-directory. But there is one for AT91SAM7S which can be used
too. The basic ARM7-interupt handling is the same for LPC and AT91SAM.

Just pick a small LPC-"blink"-example, change the memory-sections and
give it a try. Describe the errors if it does not work.

Hope this helps,
Martin Thomas