cortex-a VS cortex-m-rt

Compare cortex-a vs cortex-m-rt and see what are their differences.

cortex-a

Low level access to Cortex-A processors (by rust-embedded)

cortex-m-rt

Minimal startup / runtime for Cortex-M microcontrollers (by rust-embedded)
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cortex-a cortex-m-rt
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122 348
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7.4 5.3
over 1 year ago over 2 years ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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cortex-a

Posts with mentions or reviews of cortex-a. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-16.
  • Liblithium: A lightweight and portable cryptography library
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2022
    I'm latching onto a non-main argument to be pedantic, but I'd like to mention that Rust is fine for _non-embedded_ kernel development too, in my experience.

    As you're likely aware, Rust for embedded sucks when there's no HAL, but should be very pleasant otherwise. Have you looked into the cortex-a[1] crate?

    Some unnecessary instructions could also be a part of an ongoing optimization effort[2][3].

    [1]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/cortex-a

    [2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/yn6105/optimization_o...

    [3]: https://arewestackefficientyet.com

  • Rust OS cortex a5
    1 project | /r/learnrust | 10 Aug 2022
    It looks like you can. I have no experience with this but you can also check out the rust channel of the embedded engineers discord for help if you hit a snag.

cortex-m-rt

Posts with mentions or reviews of cortex-m-rt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Use a custom linker script with lld
    1 project | /r/rust | 23 Jan 2021
    I advise you to look at how runtimes for embedded systems work (look at this on for example), as they also make heavy usage of linker scripts.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cortex-a and cortex-m-rt you can also consider the following projects:

cortex-m-quickstart - Template to develop bare metal applications for Cortex-M microcontrollers

scapegoat - Safe, fallible, embedded-friendly ordered set/map via a scapegoat tree. Validated against BTreeSet/BTreeMap.

cortex-m - Low level access to Cortex-M processors

actix-net - A collection of lower-level libraries for composable network services.

liblithium - A lightweight and portable cryptography library.

te - A parser, runtime and specification for the text expression language to make text processing human readable

syscall.rs - Raw system calls for Rust

bno055 - Device-agnostic Bosch Sensortec BNO055 9-axis Sensor Fusion IMU driver

rtic - Real-Time Interrupt-driven Concurrency (RTIC) framework for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers

xargo - The sysroot manager that lets you build and customize `std`