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| author | bors[bot] <26634292+bors[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-12-15 21:10:44 +0000 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-12-15 21:10:44 +0000 |
| commit | 6c1743b5532a19b0e46a5ea919cd087a33669773 (patch) | |
| tree | 554eb5b0ba1f05ba558f1ddda1b8e6805f3e9956 /book/en | |
| parent | a79cc083803d126d90d1bb28af61dc6b168a0d41 (diff) | |
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Merge #668
668: Docs on RTOS r=AfoHT a=korken89
Co-authored-by: Emil Fresk <emil.fresk@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Henrik Tjäder <henrik@tjaders.com>
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diff --git a/book/en/src/preface.md b/book/en/src/preface.md index f833213..6041dfe 100644 --- a/book/en/src/preface.md +++ b/book/en/src/preface.md @@ -21,6 +21,18 @@ This is the documentation of v1.0.x of RTIC; for the documentation of version * v0.5.x go [here](/0.5). * v0.4.x go [here](/0.4). +## Is RTIC an RTOS? + +A common question is whether RTIC is an RTOS or not, and depending on your background the +answer may vary. From RTIC's developers point of view; RTIC is a hardware accelerated +RTOS that utilizes the NVIC in Cortex-M MCUs to perform scheduling, rather than the more +classical software kernel. + +Another common view from the community is that RTIC is a concurrency framework as there +is no software kernel and that it relies on external HALs. + +--- + {{#include ../../../README.md:7:47}} {{#include ../../../README.md:48:}} |