RTEMS on Altera NIOS processor

[joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com (Joel Sherrill)]

Eric Norum wrote:

> Has anyone out there looked into the possibility of running RTEMS 
> applications on a NIOS embedded (on a FPGA) processor? 

It isn't in the main gcc tree but given that Altera has GNU tools 
(nios-elf) which include a simulator,
it looks like a very doable port.  The exception/interrupt model appears 
quite straightforward.

Simple answer is that my 10 minute analysis says that if you aimed at a 
port to the simulator
(and it supported some clock interrupt source), it would be on the 
easier side of the port
effort scale.

>
> If nothing else, it already has a good project code-name (ROACH - 
> RTEMS On A CHip)!

Nice name. :)

--joel