FreeRTOS running on Epiphany core

[ralisi]

Hello everybody.

I am working on a research project at my university during which I ported FreeRTOS to the Epiphany processor.

There is one instance of the operating system running on every core. FreeRTOS plus its runtime data fit into the core's local memory. In order to allow communication between the cores I created an abstraction c2c.c which integrates the Epiphany's shared memory approach into FreeRTOS' queue model.

The Code is available here:
https://github.com/ralisi/FreeRTOS

in order to execute a little example, just run "make" in the FreeRTOS/Demo/parallella directory.


Best regards

[aolofsson]

Impressive! You are the first person to run an O/S on the Epiphany afaik!!
What is the code size like?

Andreas

[ralisi]

If I did not mess up the couting, the code for the operating system and libraries take around 12K.

[aolofsson]

Very nice! So it should be quite usable. Even more so in future versions that will have 64KB+ of memory per core.
Andreas

[greytery]

Only 64KB ....
But in the meantime we need to work within 32KB.

What about a few simple (?) library routines added to the FreeRTOS version that do for the worker tasks?

32KB - 12KB = 20KB. Loads of room!
64KB - 12KB = even more!!!!!

Cheers,

[matthias.b]

Wow nice! I was going to start working on that myself but seems I don't need to any more Will try to run it on my board soon!

[jlambrecht]

This brings to mind having a single parallella board with many Epiphany cpus talking over a single bus, n00b dreams i figure.