Thank you all for the responses.


Per,

Thanks for the hints. I've already been at all those places and am aware of the historical relationships etc.
Thing is, that regardless of the reasons, I find the available documentation of all kinds very amateurish and unsatisfactory. As I said, I am not surprised, just want to discuss this with professionals in a professional manner.


Stefan,

Of course making up a separate forum is up to the website owner/administrator. I've written to him already. But until it happens - if it happens at all - I would like to use the existing facilities of 8052.com.

Converting '51 code to ARM may be quite an undertaking due to a very different philosophy of the product. Bear in mind, that - contrary what the chipmakers claim in the glossy colour material - ARMs are NOT microcontrollers, but SoC, i.e. a processor, peripherals and control logic glued together in a rather ad-hoc manner, on a single chip.


Andy,

Re going to the "most appropriate" forum, this is exactly *the reason* why I want to start discussing things on an "independent" place. My problems are often conceptual rather than bound to a particular chip. And I wish those to be answered by people whom I know to be professionals, in a professional manner I value higher than the "oh look what I did with this cool new stuff" and "I clicked my way through these cool tools and it works" approach. I suggest this also in hope that in future more and more ARM-related developers will understand that they might gain more from a more wide cooperation rather than locking themselves up into small separated boxes.

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So, I would like to re-phrase my original question: do you think it is inappropriate to bring up ARM-related questions in the Chat Board of 8052.com (having them appropriately labelled, of course)?

Thanks,

Jan Waclawek