Saturday, 24 November 2012

Re: [gccsdk] OSLib status

In message <20121124132431.GG22635@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Theo Markettos <theo@markettos.org.uk> wrote:

> Someone on the Raspberry Pi forum was asking how to call SWIs from C, and I
> pointed them towards OSLib. However, in the process I went to the OSLib
> website and discovered the latest released version is 2007 - presumably
> that's not ARMv7 compatible.

I would be surprised if the last 6.90 AOF release is not ARMv7 compatible.
After all, the veneers are a very tiny wrappers around the actual SWI
calls fully conforming to APCS-32.

> How feasible might it be to think about an OSLib release sometime? I see
> there are lots of recent commits from John in SVN.

I made a release candidate 2 weeks ago, got some great feedback on it
and was about to release it any day now.

> It might also be nice to support some of the newer things (OS_IICOp,
> GPIO_* were the things that came up), but one thing at a time :)

Sure, I'm looking forward for these contributions ;-)

John.
--
John Tytgat, in his comfy chair at home
John.Tytgat@aaug.net

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