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'Lo all. |
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I'd like to propose a new category. |
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Name: dev-pic |
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Alternate name: dev-embedded |
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Purpose: development software dealing with PIC microcontrollers and |
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other embedded chips. |
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We currently have pending ebuilds for a fair number of the packages |
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listed on a site (http://www.gnupic.org/) that tracks software for |
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handing PIC microcontrollers et al under linux. There is also at least 1 |
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ebuild in the tree for this type of software, wrongly filed under |
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dev-util (It's an assembler/linker/deassembler for PIC1[246][CF]* |
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chips). |
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Support Reasoning: I've got a class on programming PIC16F87[47] chips |
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this semester, and I really don't want to use the nasty windows programs |
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to build my code. And since I've got access to the hardware, might as |
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well test out the code that should work to get it into the tree. |
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(For those interested, for my class, we had to come up with independant |
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projects to do with the chips, and my team has decided to go with my |
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suggestion of building the interface unit for an embedded OEM GPS |
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reciever). |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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E-Mail : robbat2@××××××××××××××.net |
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Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 |
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ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 |
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GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 |
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