[NEWS] The ChibiOS Book

[Giovanni]

Users in the "editos" wiki group have now access to the new "Private Area" in the wiki, the material is in there. Barthess added to the group.

The material is not much yet but feedback is welcome.

Giovanni

[Tectu]

I gave it a short look and I like what I see so far.
What I would (obviously) recommend to add is a chapter talking about 3rd party libraries. Which ones do work out of the box with ChibiOS/RT, what can they do and probably a short "tutorial" (quotes as there is nothing really but modifying the Makefile and initializing it.


~ Tectu

[barthess]

Strange. I can not login on chibios.org nor reset my password.

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[Giovanni]

There is an issue with email, see PM for password.

Giovanni

[barthess]

Now it works. Thanks.

One frequent question I have had to answer is: Why creating another RTOS?, my usual answer is: Why not? it is not like the perfect RTOS has already been written.

I like to answer such questions "Because I can"

History part:
I like to read historical notes very much. Probably it worth to increase size of this part.
About RTOS name. Why you do not want "serious enterprise" name? P.S. in Russian
electronics community its name transformed to similar sounding Russian word "Чибис"
(lapwing bird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapwing). Obviously not a serious too.

About whole accessible material:
It is short but comprehensive. I like it.

[Giovanni]

It is just that you see such important looking names for things that are jokes, so I wanted a fun name for something that is dead serious.

About the material, I tend to be synthetic, probably too synthetic, based on feedback I will expand the various parts, now I want to define all sections and the topics to be included.

Giovanni

[tinito]

Giovanni, the book project is a big news!
It is of great interest to me, I may use it as material for university lectures, there are almost no resources with well-organized practical examples.
I'm interested for sure in looking at the existing material and give my 2 cents.

[Giovanni]

Hi,

You need to register on the wiki.

Giovanni

[Giovanni]

I forgot registration is disabled....

See PMs.

Giovanni

[Giovanni]

The material keeps growing. Probably it would be a good idea to create 2 distinct books. The first one would be about RTOS concepts and the RT kernel in details. The second about the HAL and playing with the STM32 (more "fun").

This would also let me to focus on the kernel part and have it ready earlier.

Giovanni