Cheapest hardware for Ada development (ARM7TDMI)?

[ralf.corsepius at rtems.org (Ralf Corsepius)]

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 00:30 +0200, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to do embedded Ada development, nothing specific, just for
> fun and to get some experience. What is the cheapest hardware I can use
> with RTEMS and GNAT? I have experience with the ARM7TDMI-based
> controller families by Atmel and Philips. Is there any chance I can port
> RTEMS to such a target (e.g. 256K ROM, 64K RAM) and make it work with GNAT?
There is almost no chance to get this working, for 2 reasons:
1. Getting gnat functional is very hard in general.
2. Arm support in GNAT is not implemented in GCC.

Ralf