Switch from TI-RTOS to SimpleLink POSIX: Threads and Semaphores

RE: Switch from TI-RTOS to SimpleLink POSIX: Threads and Semaphores

Jan Cumps — Fri, 11 May 2018 16:42:52 GMT

I've added a second topic: writing and reading persistent (calibration) data: Switch from TI-RTOS to SimpleLink POSIX: EEPROM API

RE: Switch from TI-RTOS to SimpleLink POSIX: Threads and Semaphores

jomoenginer — Mon, 07 May 2018 00:28:09 GMT

Jan,

Very cool. It will be interesting to see how you progress with this.

However, to understand this, you are not just dumping TI-RTOS for POSIX, but rather just moving up another level of abstraction above the RTOS implementation and use the POSIX APIs from the TI SimpleLink SDK, correct? It does appear that TI has not implement all of the POSIX APIs and there are some limitations with FreeRTOS so that should be interesting.

I wonder if this opens the door for someone to use another POSIX compliant OS such as Android, Nucleus, or Contiki with SimpleLink SDK in the future?

For someone looking into this, it might be wise to understand the underlying RTOS that is used or at least the interaction between the POSIX API and the RTOS Kernel just in case something in the TI implementation is not completely ironed out. This would help with debugging as well.

RE: Switch from TI-RTOS to SimpleLink POSIX: Threads and Semaphores

DAB — Sun, 06 May 2018 17:26:09 GMT

Nice post.

I wondered what was the advantage of Simplelink so I am very interested to see what happens.

DAB

RE: Switch from TI-RTOS to SimpleLink POSIX: Threads and Semaphores

shabaz — Sun, 06 May 2018 13:13:18 GMT

Hi Jan, great post.

SimpleLink is awesome : ) I only briefly got to explore it a while back (with a CC3200 device) but it really makes it friendly to develop with, knowing the APIs are so similar to working with Linux.

RE: Switch from TI-RTOS to SimpleLink POSIX: Threads and Semaphores

fmilburn — Sat, 05 May 2018 15:58:59 GMT

I never fully committed to TI-RTOS but will follow along enthusiastically