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

[Philip Hands]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
>> 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,
>
>  oh great - yeah the STM32F072 is like a grown-up version of the
> arduino.  none of this bullshit installing 160mb of java runtime, a
> toy-for-an-IDE that does nothing more than wrap sdcc and avr-utils
> even to the point of modifying simple Makefiles for you.  i bought an
> OSMC back in 2001, it had the same PICs as the arduino, and *nobody*
> arsed about with 250mb of crap to wrap 5mb worth of libraries and
> command-line compiler tools!
>
>  rant over.... :)

Pretty much exactly why I helped make sure that the java stuff is
optional on Debian -- see the 'arduino-core' and 'arduino-mk' packages:

  https://packages.debian.org/jessie/arduino-mk

Cheers, Phil.
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