[En-Nut-Discussion] Realtime Nut/OS

[Matthias Ringwald]

Hi

may I push the stated concept even further. Adam Dunkel's Contiki (http://www.sics.se/contiki/ 
) is a pure while loop event handler. However, Contiki provides  
Protothreads which essentially facilitates the implementation of state  
machines in a thread like way without real threads. Then, it also  
provides multi-threading on top of it. I don't remember but it might  
even be preemptive.
So Haralds idea of running nut/os in a real time thread could be  
possible and useful. I'm running the unix emulation of  nut/os as an  
app on unix, that's same, no?

Cheers
matthias


On Mar 5, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Harald Kipp wrote:

> Now the idea, which btw. is not new as it has been posted to this
> mailing list many years ago (not by me): What about an additional
> scheduler running preemptive tasks, one of which is Nut/OS? I could
> think of a new thread type RTTHREAD(). So far I have no idea, if that
> could be done without any impact on the code size of pure cooperative
> applications.
>
> Just want to reanimate this old idea. Now I'll have lunch...