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Re:STM32 family grows to microprocessor/Linux level with STM... by chrsw on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @08:23AM (#37221655)
Vendor tools like this exist to lock in developers and teams who can't, or won't build their own environments. There's a short on-ramp for embedded programmers who aren't necessarily software experts but the price is they dig themselves even deeper into an undesirable situation in the long term.
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Re:STM32 family grows to microprocessor/Linux level with STM... by 5ADBEEF on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:21AM (#37224019)
praying for Zephyr to succeed
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Re:STM32 family grows to microprocessor/Linux level with STM... by shandor on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:59AM (#37224613)
How is their overall hardware support?

If nothing else the vendor-specific crappy toolchains do support the vendor’s HW well, so that’s something they need to do so that devs don’t have to start their projects with implementing the low-level support by themself.

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Re:STM32 family grows to microprocessor/Linux level with STM... by jononor on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:37PM (#37225168)
Very good? Zephyr generally wraps the hardware SDKs for the things built into the microcontroller. And then their own portable drivers for any outside peripherals, like I2C/SPI/Onewire/etc.
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Re:STM32 family grows to microprocessor/Linux level with STM... by acegopher on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:33PM (#37226796)
Except that ST has open-sourced their toolchain, and their libraries [0]. I can write C or assembly code on my Linux laptop and get it on my ST devices without anything proprietary from ST.

[0] - https://github.com/STMicroelectronics

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