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by fearless_fool
Sat Jul 11, 2020 10:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What would you like to see in The Next Chip?
Replies: 426
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Re: What would you like to see in The Next Chip?

The more things that can wake the processor from sleep, the better. One that I've not seen anywhere is a "sleepy UART" mode that draws almost no current until a start bit is seen, then proceeds to capture the entire first byte as it wakes the processor. If you want a longer discussion about optimizi...
by fearless_fool
Sat Jul 11, 2020 10:10 pm
Forum: ESP-IDF
Topic: Create a project w/o FreeRTOS?
Replies: 4
Views: 4264

Re: Create a project w/o FreeRTOS?

Are you are saying that FreeRTOS is permanently baked into every ESP32 application? That would be a pity -- as good as FreeRTOS is, the mulib framework I'd like to port is extremely efficient for low-power applications -- it's inherently tick-less and its single threaded design means that task switc...
by fearless_fool
Sat Jul 11, 2020 8:40 pm
Forum: ESP-IDF
Topic: Create a project w/o FreeRTOS?
Replies: 4
Views: 4264

Create a project w/o FreeRTOS?

I have compiled and run "hello_world", but otherwise I'm a complete beginner in the land of ESP32 IDF. Because I'm porting a new real-time framework to the ESP32, I'd like to create a new project that specifically omits FreeRTOS. `menuconfig` doesn't seem to provide a means to do that. Any guidance ...