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FreeRTOS adds support for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) (aws.amazon.com)
13 points by starklevnertz 1638 days ago
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This feels oddly relevant as someone just starting to port an ESP8266-RTOS-SDK based application to ESP-IDF (ESP-32), and wondering what the best strategy for targeting both platforms is going to be.

The vanilla `taskENTER_CRITICAL()` [1] vs ESP-IDF `taskENTER_CRITICAL(mutex)` changes [2] in particular are related to espressif's own FreeRTOS SMP variant, and seem fairly major and invasive.

[1] https://www.freertos.org/taskENTER_CRITICAL_taskEXIT_CRITICA...

[2] https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/...