Support popular RTOS projects: ChibiOS/RT & NuttX

[beriberikix]

Is there anything preventing PlatformIO from supporting popular RTOS projects like ChibiOS/RT, FreeRTOS & NuttX?* A quick search on the web UI returned 0 results.

*there are many, many more RTOS projects out there.

[ivankravets]

Is there anything preventing PlatformIO from supporting popular RTOS projects

Yes, shortage of free time and human resource 😩

PlatformIO is open source project, I would be thankful if someone contribute with pull requests. However, we will add support for the popular RTOS projects as soon as possible.

[beriberikix]

What would be involved in adding one? I'm playing around with @ChibiOS and it has 2 main parts - the RTOS and the HAL. Is the HAL considered a Framework while the RTOS is a library? Or is the RTOS a Platform?

[ivankravets]

We can implement @ChibiOS within PlatformIO like a framework. @ChibiOS supports different development platforms which are supported by PlatformIO too.

1. We should fix all issues for the new 1.5.0 release.
2. Need to finish work on PlatformIO 2.0.

@valeros How much efforts you need to add support for @ChibiOS? Will it be 1.6.0 or 2.1.0 release?

P.S: See build logic https://github.com/ChibiOS/ChibiOS/blob/master/os/common/ports/ARM/compilers/GCC/rules.mk

[valeros]

I'll add support for ChibiOS, if finish the work on PlatformIO 2.0

[beriberikix]

👍

[beriberikix]

Is the work for 2.0 complete? Would love to migrate my current chibi project to use PlatfromIO :)

[ivankravets]

@beriberikix yes, 2.0 is released, but we are working on polishing (improvements/bug fixes) 😊

See our milestones https://github.com/platformio/platformio/milestones.

[beriberikix]

Any chance of including this in an upcoming milestone?

[ivankravets]

Dear @beriberikix,

We are working on our separate project @smartanthill and @valeros don't have time for @platformio at the moment.

I propose you to make similar issue on the RTOS project forums etc:

• http://forum.chibios.org/phpbb/index.php
• http://www.freertos.org/FreeRTOS_Support_Forum_Archive/freertos_support_forum_archive_index.html

We can provide counselling help totally for free. The implementation of RTOS can be achieved via framework's script. See examples: https://github.com/platformio/platformio/tree/develop/platformio/builder/scripts/frameworks

Sorry for that 😢

[beriberikix]

Fair enough. Thanks for all the support thus far.

[TA1DB]

After a long hiatus of decades, I have started working on embedded systems again for the last 5 years. Two of the greatest projects I've seen during this time are Platformio and Nuttx. Unfortunately when I start a nuttx work, I move away from platformio and partially forget some of its features. Besides, when I import a Pio project into Eclipse, for example, I can easily see and compile all options of Makefile, I can easily debug; this would be a great feature and value for Nuttx !. It would be really great when Nuttx will be supported on pio! Thanks in advance @ivankravets 🤓

[me21]

Regarding ChibiOS: there is a library for PlatformIO which enables using ChibiOS/RT alongside with Arduino: https://platformio.org/lib/show/2986/ChRt