Support for TMS570 or Cortex-R in general?

[tm123]

Hi,

Is Cortex-R support planned or just not worth it at the moment? I know it’s a niche and weird side of microcontrollers but the less I have to deal with crappy IDE’s produced by microcontroller companies and command line compiling the better.

[support]

Hi,

Generally, Cortex-R devices are somewhat niche, so we are not planning to support them directly unless we see more traction. As a workaround, you can always create a project manually as shown in this tutorial.

We have also developed a tool for converting the projects generated by TI’s HalCoGen into VisualGDB BSPs. However, it was created as a part of a custom paid BSP requested by one of our customers, so we cannot guarantee that it will work with all device families. It could be a good starting point, but it may require some tweaking before you get a fully usable BSP out of it.

[tm123]

No worries, thanks for pointing out the tutorial and the tool, I’ll attempt it at some point.

[Author]

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