Lpc2000

Joel Winarske wrote:
>  > Why contiki over something like freeRTOS or uCLinux?  No intention of
>  > derailing the thread, just curious.
> 
> You've identified two excercises:
> 1.  Port an IP stack - Contiki has the most current uIP source.
> 2.  Port an RTOS - There's currently a port of FreeRTOS for LPC2129 in the
> FreeRTOS code base.
> 
> 
> Joel
> 

Sorry for not responding right away but a flue caught me. :-(

For most of my work I don't like to add the complexity of a RT-kernel. 
Something like cooperation multitasking is OK for most situations. But 
if you want to have several of the RFC's handled in a module things 
always get a bit messy. Also it is hard to write the code in a nice 
modular fashion.

Of course both FreeRTOS and Contiki solve this problem. Also when I look 
at them they appear to provide much the same services apart from the GUI 
functionality in Contiki which I probably will not use anyway. I can't 
find anything about the footprint for the FreeRTOS but know it can be 
very low for Contiki and that services are easy to modularizes.

What are the differences between them?

Cheers
/Ake


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