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Latest changes and additions: https://oberon-rtk.org/description/changes-2024-02-10/

Added inter-core messaging: https://oberon-rtk.org/description/inter-core-messages/

New example program: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/messaging/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ygrayne/oberon-rtk

Recent changes and additions: 1) https://oberon-rtk.org/description/changes-2024-01-30/: signals and semaphores for thread synchronisation. Example programs: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/signalsync/ and https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/semaphoresync/ 2) https://oberon-rtk.org/description/changes-2...

Latest changes and extensions: https://oberon-rtk.org/description/changes-2024-01-29/ Main extension: reading from serial terminals: https://oberon-rtk.org/description/text-output-and-input/ New example program: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/readterminal/ Some thoughts about the implications of us...

Made a few library changes, mostly to the text output machinery: https://oberon-rtk.org/description/changes-2024-01-17/ Added a new example program, showing how to avoid busy waiting for a peripheral: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/nobusywaiting/ Edited the kernel description for structure and hope...

Today, I have made available a first set of Oberon modules to program the RP2040 using Astrobe for Cortex-M0, v9.0.3. There's also a tool to transmogrify Astrobe '.bin' file to the contents and UF2 format for the RP2040. The library contains as of today: 1) Basics to get off the ground: clocks, rese...

Interesting. Yes, this works, again a) checking the code and b) running a test program. Surprising though. The Astrobe docs about module system say: ADR returns the absolute address of the given variable. Now, that SYSTEM.ADR of a VAR procedure parameter would return the actual address of the argume...

To avoid busy-waiting at a serial output peripheral (USART), I am implementing buffered text output to a terminal. The intention is to use the DMA peripheral on the M0. Among other configuration, the DMA channel expects 1) a memory address of the buffer, and 2) the number of data items to transfer f...

Wow. Smart. I am impressed. Thanks for that.

For the Cortex-M0, the prologue and epilogue generated for interrupt handlers is the same as for normal parameterless procedures. That is, they are the same for PROCEDURE p0; END p0; 0B500H push { lr } 046C0H nop 0BD00H pop { pc } 046C0H nop and PROCEDURE p1[0]; END p1; 0B500H push { lr } 046C0H nop...

SYSTEM.LDREG is also used in Oberon.Mod, and its sibling SYSTEM.REG in Kernel.Mod, Modules.Mod, System.Mod, as well as in the bootloader. SYSTEM.H, probably another undocumented feature, is used in Kernel.Mod. Hence, without undocumented features, no Oberon system as we know it.