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Re:STMicro MPU Supports Linux and Android by kbumsik on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:23PM (#19221974)
You should know that the computation capabilities is not the only factor of the industrial embedded system and that chip does not even look at it.

It much more focused on real-time capabilities and hardware control. Notable examples are 1. Built-in Cortex M4 microcontroller 2. RPi doesn't have ADCs but STM32MP1 got 16-bit ADCs and a sigma-delta modulator. 3. It's got 5V-tolerant GPIO whereas RPis are not 4. Best-in-class timers for PWM and quadrature encoders.

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Re:STMicro MPU Supports Linux and Android by monocasa on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:41PM (#19222078)
The title has changed since I posted. It was something to the effect of "ST Micro Cortex-A7 supports Linux and Android".

Which is sort of 'no shit, of course an A7 is easy to port Linux to.'

Yes, I know that an RPi isn't the best microcontroller. My last job had me as the lead for a proprietary RTOS for a custom robotics system. In fact if you go into the STM32F docs for the SSI controller where it calls the busy flag "unreliable", that was my contribution.

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