Flutter and RTOS

[cromer]

Hey everyone, I just wanted to start this thread as a place to talk about using flutter with RTOSes. I'm currently testing out using the ChibiOS/RT library made by Bill Greiman and can be found here (main ChibiOS/RT site here). I very quickly took the Range Test code and dropped it into a thread for ChibiOS and it seems to be working right now off the bat! Now I'm sure the flutter code isn't thread-safe yet but I am glad to see it working without throwing any errors.

I don't have too much more to report at the moment, I just wanted to share my success in getting the two to play nice. I'd love to get feedback on other RTOSes as well, I know that Bill Greiman also has FreeRTOS and NILRTOS libraries for Arduino also on his github but I've only ever worked with ChibiOS.

[taylor]

Moved to the newly created "Experimental Firmwares" category.

I'm very interested in an RTOS for Flutter. I've used SEGGER Embos before and it was very nice.

I've thought about how a simple RTOS designed for Arduino users might work, where there are simply more than one "Loop" routines. I think making an RTOS simpler and accessible to casual Arduino users would give those users access to a lot more power.

We will also have people developing a bare metal GCC version of Flutter that should be good for integrating into any RTOS. I would also love to see which ones people recommend!