Talking Tock 46

1.2 released

June 19th 2018 by Amit

This is the 46th post in a series tracking the development of Tock, a safe multi-tasking operating system for microcontrollers.

1. Tock 1.2 Released
2. Pull Requests
   1. Merged
   2. Proposed

Tock 1.2 Released

Pull Requests

Bolded pull requests were marked “P-Significant”

Merged

• (#976) Hide sensitive constructors in kernel
• (#1000) Remove duplicates from nRF52’s Cargo.lock
• (#977) Move main to sched.rs for clarity
• (#990) Port nRF52 to using StaticRef
• (#998) Update tutorials
• (#979) Fix USART SPI callback in SAM4L
• (#989) Port all of SAM4L to using StaticRef

Proposed

• (#984) Move register interface to it’s own crate
• (#987) Move userland to libtock-c repo
• (#991) Remove volatile_reads from ring buffer
• (#991) Remove volatile_reads from ring buffer
• (#992) Document process isolation and memory protection
• (#993) Use LLVM’s LLD to link the kernel
• (#996) Port Cortex-M to StaticRef
• (#997) Update rustc nightly
• (#1001) Add a note that nRF51 is no longer recommended