WUT?

This is a BuguRTOS project. The name BuguRTOS comes from Butthurt, Frugurt and RTOS.

BuguRTOS is small portable OS-kernel for microcontrollers. It is capable to work in hard/soft real time systems.

It is free and open source software, but you can use it for proprietary software development.

Main features

• Small. BuguRTOS can run on small 8bit microcontrollers.
• Portable. The kernel is designed to be easy portable to new platforms.
• No memory management in kernel.
• Smaller process stack size required as kernel runs in separate thread with it's own stack.
• The kernel is allmost fully preemptive. Only small chunks of code can't be preempted by interrupts.
• Interrupt virtualization. Virtual interrupts are run cooperatively in kernel threads. By default they can be preempted by other virtual interrupts in preemtion points.
• Customizable system call interface. One may comment out unneeded system calls, add custom system calls or rewrite system call table completely.

Licensing

• BuguRTOS is licensed under GPLv3 with linking exception, see exception.txt
• STM8/SDCC tests are licensed under GPLv3 without exceptions as libstm8 is used!

Get it!

• Old releases are on Gdrive!.
• Since May 12th 2015 new releases are placed here.

Current status

• Branches supported:

  • 0.6.x (Immediate Ceiling Priority Protocol used) high level features and API are frozen;
  • 2.0.x (combines Immediate Ceiling Priority and Basic Priority Inheritance protocols) is under active development.

• Current versions are:

  • 0.6.6;
  • 2.0.0;

• Platforms supported:

  • AVR (GNU-toolchain);
  • STM8:
  • IAR,
  • Raisonance,
  • SDCC (since 2.0.0);
  • Cortex^TM-M4 (GNU-toolchain);
  • Cortex^TM-M3 (GNU-toolchain);
  • Cortex^TM-M0 (GNU-toolchain).

• Notes on STM8/SDCC port:

  • Thank Philipp Klaus Krause for taking part in this port!
  • SDCC generates strange code for long linear functions which allocates MUCH STACK SPACE for temoprary vars, be carefull!

• Notes on Cortex^TM-M0 port:

  • This port should also work on Cortex^TM-M1 with OS-extension.

Get started

Getting started guide is here.

Todo

• Write libs for 2.0.x branch.
• Write more ports.
• Fix bugs.
• ??????
• PROFIT!!!

News

• August 31th 2016: BuguRTOS updated version 2.0.0 is out, see Changelog for details!
• April 26th 2016: BuguRTOS updated version 1.0.0 is out, see Changelog, semantic versioning is used now!
• January 6th 2016: BuguRTOS updated version 0.9.9 is out, see Changelog!
• July 3rd 2015: BuguRTOS updated versions 0.6.6, 0.7.3, 0.8.4 are out, are out, see Changelog!
• May 12th 2015: BuguRTOS-0.8.3 is out, see Changelog! Added more argument checks, fixed several issues, ported tests to libopencm3.
• May 12th 2015: Added third party code to project repository.
• April 25th 2015: BuguRTOS-0.8.2 is out, see Changelog! Added basic timeout support and fifo scheduling policy support, fixed some bugs.
• April 25th 2015: BuguRTOS moved to GitHub.
• March 13th 2015: BuguRTOS updated versions 0.6.5, 0.7.2, 0.8.1 are out, see Changelog! Three bugs fixed, significant changes made in 0.8.x branch.
• January 24th 2015: BuguRTOS-0.8.0 is out, see Changelog! Actually It's not just a new version, but a New branch. I will focus on it for a while. Working on this new branch I found and fixed some bugs in priority inheritance protocol of 0.7.x branch. Branches 0.6.x and 0.7.x will have only new ports and bug fixes.
• BuguRTOS-0.7.1 is out, see Changelog, BuguRTOS-0.8.0 is on the way!