[Arm-netbook] early alpha production run of libre laptop PCBs, microdesktops and CPU Cards

[Paul Boddie]

On Wednesday 16. December 2015 16.28.09 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
>  microcontrollers are actually a very small amount of memory, so if
> you are writing lots of code, you're doing something badly, badly
> wrong.  it is however a bit of a mind-bender: everything has to be
> state-driven.  it's single-process (no threads, no state-swapping),
> interrupts and DMA.  so everything is done as a huuuuge
> state-machine... or on polling with sleep loops.

Well, the microcontroller stuff I have a bit more experience with, having 
messed around with a USB controller (MAX3421E) with the Arduino, but then 
using the NanoNote to do the same thing because it was easier and I was being 
lazy. ;-) But in other words, not Linux driver stuff.

Paul