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Template to develop bare metal applications for Cortex-M microcontrollers
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Fedora docs #34

Closed plaes closed 5 years ago

plaes commented 6 years ago

Added some Fedora-specific notes on getting started

japaric commented 6 years ago

I'm a bit afraid that adding docs for a second Linux distro will open the door to receiving PRs for even more distros.

My preference here would be document a single distribution (preferably the one we use in CI because it's what we test) and say that this provided as a reference and that you should consult your package manager to see what are the equivalent packages.

japaric commented 6 years ago

single distribution

And by "single distribution" I also meant a single release like Ubuntu 14.04 -- that should be specified in the docs. Otherwise we will have to add notes about some packages not being supported in recent releases. For example, see rust-embedded/discovery#91

therealprof commented 6 years ago

I agree with @japaric here.

adamgreig commented 6 years ago

I'm a bit afraid that adding docs for a second Linux distro will open the door to receiving PRs for even more distros.

For the quickstart crate in particular, would that be such a bad thing? The users reading this are likely the ones needing the most help getting started. Telling users "figure out how to installer a debugger yourself if you're not using Ubuntu 14.04" isn't especially helpful for them.

We could at least point people to the official ARM gcc distribution, which has installation instructions and static binaries for everyone, and includes arm-none-eabi-gdb as well.

korken89 commented 6 years ago

I would agree with @adamgreig, let's push them the right direction at least

Disasm commented 5 years ago

Looks like these changes are a bit outdated. Relevant instructions for Fedora are given in the embedded Rust book. Thank you for your help! Feel free to open PR in the book repo if you have some updates.