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Picobit embedded in Chibios

I was looking at the Small Scheme Stack a little more than a year ago. I couldn't find the source, so I contacted the authors asking them if it was available under an open source license. Marc Feeley got back to me, asked a few questions about the scheme I planned to use, and suggested Picobit . At the time I abandoned that idea, and finally got around to looking at Picobit about a week ago This afternoon, I've managed to embed it in Chibios. It's already been ported to a specific ARM board, but I wanted to embed it in Chibios to avoid writing a lot of drivers. I've now got a little scheme program that flashes a led on and off on an STM32F4 Discovery board. You can see the fork of picobit here . It's a work in progress: my build in particular is a bit of a mess. Chibios wants your makefiles to follow a fairly rigid structure, and Picobit's makefiles are a little complicated: copying details about the memory map from the vm build across to the compiler. I thi