Re: Understanding the BSP concept and terms

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You are confusing the specific case of the x86 PC architecture with the
general concepts here.

The OAL in Windows CE is the general equivalent to the BIOS in the desktop
systems. Since the PC architecture already has the BIOS for initialization
and the PC Architecture defines a very rigid fixed set of hardware attached
to the CPU (timers interrupt controllers, etc...) The OAL for a PC is fairly
generic and re-usable across most, if not all PC systems. However, on RISC
based CPUs (that are usually System On Chip (SoC) devices) the story is
completely different. They have no BIOS and have no standardized
architecture to rely on so they require custom OAL development for each CPU
and due to other technical issues usually for each device design using a
particular CPU as well.

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Steve Maillet
EmbeddedFusion
www.EmbeddedFusion.com
smaillet at EmbeddedFusion dot com


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