Hi all.
In freertos forum we are starting to discuss about a Open Source toolchain for embedded device.
The idea is to use ECLIPSE and gnu compiler (for PC and arm microcontrollers), adding to it plugin for
automatic building project based of freertos, and for debugging application using tools plugin which can trace OS kernel activities, and lowcost debugger.
In a private email exchanging, i proposed to add LWIP stack to this toolchain.
So the idea will be:
- have an IDE based of eclipse which can automatically generate a freertos-lwip project template, providing it only custom file (sys_arch, ethernetif, emac driver)
and build and download the application using gnu compiler
- this ide should have plugin for automatic configuration of lwipopts.h and freertosconfig.h using a user friendly interface
- this ide should have plugin for debug of OS kernel activity and lwip activity, enabling debug defines and (for example) capturing assert messages
This work need people:
- for new ideas ----> anyone can do this!!!
- for lwip eclipse plugin developing, and for add some code to lwip (i.e. for providing stats to eclipse plugins, for sending assert messages...) -----> people who know lwip code are necessary
Some links:
Bye Piero