diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+
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diff --git a/mp-s7-src/Makefile b/mp-s7-src/Makefile
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+++ b/mp-s7-src/Makefile
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+include ../../py/mkenv.mk
+
+CROSS = 0
+
+# qstr definitions (must come before including py.mk)
+QSTR_DEFS = qstrdefsport.h
+
+# include py core make definitions
+include $(TOP)/py/py.mk
+
+ifeq ($(CROSS), 1)
+CROSS_COMPILE = arm-none-eabi-
+endif
+
+INC += -I.
+INC += -I$(TOP)
+INC += -I$(BUILD)
+
+ifeq ($(CROSS), 1)
+DFU = $(TOP)/tools/dfu.py
+PYDFU = $(TOP)/tools/pydfu.py
+CFLAGS_CORTEX_M4 = -mthumb -mtune=cortex-m4 -mcpu=cortex-m4 -msoft-float -fsingle-precision-constant -Wdouble-promotion
+CFLAGS = $(INC) -Wall -Werror -std=c99 -nostdlib $(CFLAGS_CORTEX_M4) $(COPT)
+LDFLAGS = -nostdlib -T stm32f405.ld -Map=$@.map --cref --gc-sections
+else
+LD = gcc
+CFLAGS = -m32 $(INC) -Wall -Werror -std=c99 $(COPT)
+LDFLAGS = -m32 -Wl,-Map=$@.map,--cref -Wl,--gc-sections
+endif
+
+CSUPEROPT = -Os # save some code space
+
+# Tune for Debugging or Optimization
+ifeq ($(DEBUG), 1)
+CFLAGS += -O0 -ggdb
+else
+CFLAGS += -Os -DNDEBUG
+CFLAGS += -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections
+endif
+
+LIBS =
+
+SRC_C = \
+	main.c \
+	uart_core.c \
+	lib/utils/printf.c \
+	lib/utils/stdout_helpers.c \
+	lib/utils/pyexec.c \
+	lib/libc/string0.c \
+	lib/mp-readline/readline.c \
+	$(BUILD)/_frozen_mpy.c \
+
+OBJ = $(PY_CORE_O) $(addprefix $(BUILD)/, $(SRC_C:.c=.o))
+
+ifeq ($(CROSS), 1)
+all: $(BUILD)/firmware.dfu
+else
+all: $(BUILD)/firmware.elf
+endif
+
+$(BUILD)/_frozen_mpy.c: frozentest.mpy $(BUILD)/genhdr/qstrdefs.generated.h
+	$(ECHO) "MISC freezing bytecode"
+	$(Q)$(TOP)/tools/mpy-tool.py -f -q $(BUILD)/genhdr/qstrdefs.preprocessed.h -mlongint-impl=none $< > $@
+
+$(BUILD)/firmware.elf: $(OBJ)
+	$(ECHO) "LINK $@"
+	$(Q)$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $^ $(LIBS)
+	$(Q)$(SIZE) $@
+
+$(BUILD)/firmware.bin: $(BUILD)/firmware.elf
+	$(Q)$(OBJCOPY) -O binary -j .isr_vector -j .text -j .data $^ $(BUILD)/firmware.bin
+
+$(BUILD)/firmware.dfu: $(BUILD)/firmware.bin
+	$(ECHO) "Create $@"
+	$(Q)$(PYTHON) $(DFU) -b 0x08000000:$(BUILD)/firmware.bin $@
+
+deploy: $(BUILD)/firmware.dfu
+	$(ECHO) "Writing $< to the board"
+	$(Q)$(PYTHON) $(PYDFU) -u $<
+
+# Run emulation build on a POSIX system with suitable terminal settings
+run:
+	stty raw opost -echo
+	build/firmware.elf
+	@echo Resetting terminal...
+# This sleep is useful to spot segfaults
+	sleep 1
+	reset
+
+test: $(BUILD)/firmware.elf
+	$(Q)/bin/echo -e "print('hello world!', list(x+1 for x in range(10)), end='eol\\\\n')\\r\\n\\x04" | $(BUILD)/firmware.elf | tail -n2 | grep "^hello world! \\[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10\\]eol"
+
+include $(TOP)/py/mkrules.mk
diff --git a/mp-s7-src/README.md b/mp-s7-src/README.md
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+++ b/mp-s7-src/README.md
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+# MicroPython System 7 Port
+This is based, initially, on the minimal port of MircoPython. This can be found under ../micropython/ports/minimal/
diff --git a/mp-s7-src/frozentest.mpy b/mp-s7-src/frozentest.mpy
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Binary files /dev/null and b/mp-s7-src/frozentest.mpy differ
diff --git a/mp-s7-src/frozentest.py b/mp-s7-src/frozentest.py
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+++ b/mp-s7-src/frozentest.py
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+print('uPy')
+print('a long string that is not interned')
+print('a string that has unicode αβγ chars')
+print(b'bytes 1234\x01')
+print(123456789)
+for i in range(4):
+    print(i)
diff --git a/mp-s7-src/main.c b/mp-s7-src/main.c
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+++ b/mp-s7-src/main.c
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+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "py/compile.h"
+#include "py/runtime.h"
+#include "py/repl.h"
+#include "py/gc.h"
+#include "py/mperrno.h"
+#include "lib/utils/pyexec.h"
+
+#if MICROPY_ENABLE_COMPILER
+void do_str(const char *src, mp_parse_input_kind_t input_kind) {
+    nlr_buf_t nlr;
+    if (nlr_push(&nlr) == 0) {
+        mp_lexer_t *lex = mp_lexer_new_from_str_len(MP_QSTR__lt_stdin_gt_, src, strlen(src), 0);
+        qstr source_name = lex->source_name;
+        mp_parse_tree_t parse_tree = mp_parse(lex, input_kind);
+        mp_obj_t module_fun = mp_compile(&parse_tree, source_name, true);
+        mp_call_function_0(module_fun);
+        nlr_pop();
+    } else {
+        // uncaught exception
+        mp_obj_print_exception(&mp_plat_print, (mp_obj_t)nlr.ret_val);
+    }
+}
+#endif
+
+static char *stack_top;
+#if MICROPY_ENABLE_GC
+static char heap[2048];
+#endif
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv) {
+    int stack_dummy;
+    stack_top = (char*)&stack_dummy;
+
+    #if MICROPY_ENABLE_GC
+    gc_init(heap, heap + sizeof(heap));
+    #endif
+    mp_init();
+    #if MICROPY_ENABLE_COMPILER
+    #if MICROPY_REPL_EVENT_DRIVEN
+    pyexec_event_repl_init();
+    for (;;) {
+        int c = mp_hal_stdin_rx_chr();
+        if (pyexec_event_repl_process_char(c)) {
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+    #else
+    pyexec_friendly_repl();
+    #endif
+    //do_str("print('hello world!', list(x+1 for x in range(10)), end='eol\\n')", MP_PARSE_SINGLE_INPUT);
+    //do_str("for i in range(10):\r\n  print(i)", MP_PARSE_FILE_INPUT);
+    #else
+    pyexec_frozen_module("frozentest.py");
+    #endif
+    mp_deinit();
+    return 0;
+}
+
+void gc_collect(void) {
+    // WARNING: This gc_collect implementation doesn't try to get root
+    // pointers from CPU registers, and thus may function incorrectly.
+    void *dummy;
+    gc_collect_start();
+    gc_collect_root(&dummy, ((mp_uint_t)stack_top - (mp_uint_t)&dummy) / sizeof(mp_uint_t));
+    gc_collect_end();
+    gc_dump_info();
+}
+
+mp_lexer_t *mp_lexer_new_from_file(const char *filename) {
+    mp_raise_OSError(MP_ENOENT);
+}
+
+mp_import_stat_t mp_import_stat(const char *path) {
+    return MP_IMPORT_STAT_NO_EXIST;
+}
+
+mp_obj_t mp_builtin_open(size_t n_args, const mp_obj_t *args, mp_map_t *kwargs) {
+    return mp_const_none;
+}
+MP_DEFINE_CONST_FUN_OBJ_KW(mp_builtin_open_obj, 1, mp_builtin_open);
+
+void nlr_jump_fail(void *val) {
+    while (1);
+}
+
+void NORETURN __fatal_error(const char *msg) {
+    while (1);
+}
+
+#ifndef NDEBUG
+void MP_WEAK __assert_func(const char *file, int line, const char *func, const char *expr) {
+    printf("Assertion '%s' failed, at file %s:%d\n", expr, file, line);
+    __fatal_error("Assertion failed");
+}
+#endif
+
diff --git a/mp-s7-src/mpconfigport.h b/mp-s7-src/mpconfigport.h
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+++ b/mp-s7-src/mpconfigport.h
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+#include <stdint.h>
+
+// options to control how MicroPython is built
+
+// You can disable the built-in MicroPython compiler by setting the following
+// config option to 0.  If you do this then you won't get a REPL prompt, but you
+// will still be able to execute pre-compiled scripts, compiled with mpy-cross.
+#define MICROPY_ENABLE_COMPILER     (1)
+
+#define MICROPY_QSTR_BYTES_IN_HASH  (1)
+#define MICROPY_QSTR_EXTRA_POOL     mp_qstr_frozen_const_pool
+#define MICROPY_ALLOC_PATH_MAX      (256)
+#define MICROPY_ALLOC_PARSE_CHUNK_INIT (16)
+#define MICROPY_EMIT_X64            (0)
+#define MICROPY_EMIT_THUMB          (0)
+#define MICROPY_EMIT_INLINE_THUMB   (0)
+#define MICROPY_COMP_MODULE_CONST   (0)
+#define MICROPY_COMP_CONST          (0)
+#define MICROPY_COMP_DOUBLE_TUPLE_ASSIGN (0)
+#define MICROPY_COMP_TRIPLE_TUPLE_ASSIGN (0)
+#define MICROPY_MEM_STATS           (0)
+#define MICROPY_DEBUG_PRINTERS      (0)
+#define MICROPY_ENABLE_GC           (1)
+#define MICROPY_GC_ALLOC_THRESHOLD  (0)
+#define MICROPY_REPL_EVENT_DRIVEN   (0)
+#define MICROPY_HELPER_REPL         (1)
+#define MICROPY_HELPER_LEXER_UNIX   (0)
+#define MICROPY_ENABLE_SOURCE_LINE  (0)
+#define MICROPY_ENABLE_DOC_STRING   (0)
+#define MICROPY_ERROR_REPORTING     (MICROPY_ERROR_REPORTING_TERSE)
+#define MICROPY_BUILTIN_METHOD_CHECK_SELF_ARG (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_ASYNC_AWAIT      (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_BYTEARRAY (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_DICT_FROMKEYS (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_MEMORYVIEW (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_ENUMERATE (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_FILTER  (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_FROZENSET (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_REVERSED (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_SET     (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_SLICE   (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_PROPERTY (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_MIN_MAX (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_STR_COUNT (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_STR_OP_MODULO (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY___FILE__         (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_GC               (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_ARRAY            (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_ATTRTUPLE        (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_COLLECTIONS      (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_MATH             (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_CMATH            (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_IO               (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_STRUCT           (0)
+#define MICROPY_PY_SYS              (0)
+#define MICROPY_MODULE_FROZEN_MPY   (1)
+#define MICROPY_CPYTHON_COMPAT      (0)
+#define MICROPY_LONGINT_IMPL        (MICROPY_LONGINT_IMPL_NONE)
+#define MICROPY_FLOAT_IMPL          (MICROPY_FLOAT_IMPL_NONE)
+
+// type definitions for the specific machine
+
+#define MICROPY_MAKE_POINTER_CALLABLE(p) ((void*)((mp_uint_t)(p) | 1))
+
+// This port is intended to be 32-bit, but unfortunately, int32_t for
+// different targets may be defined in different ways - either as int
+// or as long. This requires different printf formatting specifiers
+// to print such value. So, we avoid int32_t and use int directly.
+#define UINT_FMT "%u"
+#define INT_FMT "%d"
+typedef int mp_int_t; // must be pointer size
+typedef unsigned mp_uint_t; // must be pointer size
+
+typedef long mp_off_t;
+
+#define MP_PLAT_PRINT_STRN(str, len) mp_hal_stdout_tx_strn_cooked(str, len)
+
+// extra built in names to add to the global namespace
+#define MICROPY_PORT_BUILTINS \
+    { MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR_open), MP_ROM_PTR(&mp_builtin_open_obj) },
+
+// We need to provide a declaration/definition of alloca()
+#include <alloca.h>
+
+//TODO: Are these the best names? probably not
+#define MICROPY_HW_BOARD_NAME "system-7"
+#define MICROPY_HW_MCU_NAME "M680x0"
+
+#ifdef __linux__
+#define MICROPY_MIN_USE_STDOUT (1)
+#endif
+
+#define MP_STATE_PORT MP_STATE_VM
+
+#define MICROPY_PORT_ROOT_POINTERS \
+    const char *readline_hist[8];
diff --git a/mp-s7-src/mphalport.h b/mp-s7-src/mphalport.h
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/mp-s7-src/mphalport.h
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+static inline mp_uint_t mp_hal_ticks_ms(void) { return 0; }
+static inline void mp_hal_set_interrupt_char(char c) {}
diff --git a/mp-s7-src/qstrdefsport.h b/mp-s7-src/qstrdefsport.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ba8970
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mp-s7-src/qstrdefsport.h
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+// qstrs specific to this port
diff --git a/mp-s7-src/uart_core.c b/mp-s7-src/uart_core.c
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/mp-s7-src/uart_core.c
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include "py/mpconfig.h"
+
+/*
+ * Core UART functions to implement for a port
+ */
+
+// Receive single character
+int mp_hal_stdin_rx_chr(void) {
+    unsigned char c = 0;
+    int r = read(0, &c, 1);
+    (void)r;
+    return c;
+}
+
+// Send string of given length
+void mp_hal_stdout_tx_strn(const char *str, mp_uint_t len) {
+    int r = write(1, str, len);
+    (void)r;
+}