On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 02:01:24PM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
Separately: I've not done a lot with ARM in the past. How transferable are skills learned (and code written) between ARM platforms? I quite like the look of some of the ARM dev boards you can get on eBay, for example, and I'm sure the range of options will only increase over time, so I don't want to tie myself to the R.Pi any more than I need to at this stage.
I'm doing some vaguely commercial (i.e. I might get paid a bit for it) work on an ARM based board - it's the SolderCore board, you'll find some information at soldercore.com but there are major changes going on to the way the business is managed at the moment so things are a bit 'fluid'.
I'm using the (commercial I'm afraid) Crossworks IDE by Rowley Associates, I'm not very impressed with it really, there's too much in it and so it's overly complex.
As a general comment about working with ARM it *seems* a bit of a complex mess with loads of variations of the processor and the chips it's available in each of which seems to need a different compiler - or at least a customised set of compiler options.
It's taken me quite a while just to get to the point of getting some sample code to compile and talk to the ethernet interface on the board, however now I'm there I'm hoping to make more rapid progress.