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0 pointspicture3y ago0 comments

The moment you run linux on it, it gets a bit scarce. These MMU enabled chips are pretty complicated and its really difficult to run them bare metal like ESP32. MCUs and MPUs are fundamentally different, despite what companies like NXP are trying to do with their "crossover" chips like RT1060 to RT1170

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unmole3y ago

> The moment you run linux on it, it gets a bit scarce.

I might be quite out of date but 16 MB of RAM was plenty to run Linux with something like buildroot. Is that no longer the case?

IshKebab3y ago

Don't run Linux on it then. There are other OSes that are designed for smaller chips.

But anyway I would have thought Linux could easily run on that system. Not modern desktop distros like Ubuntu of course.

lelanthran3y ago

> The moment you run linux on it, it gets a bit scarce.

So? Run FreeRTOS[1].

[1] Unless I'm mistaken, this product already supports that

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