When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies

Re:When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Sourc... by cyberax on Thursday July 20, 2023 @12:42AM (#36796953)

FreeRTOS exists, and it's pretty good.

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Re:When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Sourc... by mikepurvis on Thursday July 20, 2023 @07:54AM (#36799231)

Yes if you set it up correctly, but it's very easy to set it up wrong, especially once a networking or usb stack is in the mix.

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Re:When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Sourc... by JohnFen on Thursday July 20, 2023 @11:58AM (#36802437)

This is true for all platforms, including no OS at all, RTOSes, Linux, DOS, Windows, etc.

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Re:When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Sourc... by mikepurvis on Thursday July 20, 2023 @06:26PM (#36807592)

Fair, but there are ready-to-go Linux configurations for RPi that assume you'll do "normal" things like talk to USB devices and the network.

Additionally, Linux has available a multitude of very rich in-band debugging and logging capabilities that help you understand and mitigate common problems— whereas a bad interrupt or peripheral configuration on some microcontroller could have you banging your head again a GDB frontend or shelling out thousands for a tool like Tracealyzer to tell you what on earth is going on with it.

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