cortex-m VS cortex-m-rt

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

cortex-m

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

cortex-m-rt

Minimal startup / runtime for Cortex-M microcontrollers (by rust-embedded)
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cortex-m cortex-m-rt
6 1
756 348
4.4% -
7.6 5.3
12 days ago over 2 years ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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cortex-m

Posts with mentions or reviews of cortex-m. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.

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

stm32-rs - Embedded Rust device crates for STM32 microcontrollers

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

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

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

wyhash-rs - wyhash fast portable non-cryptographic hashing algorithm and random number generator in Rust

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

pico-examples

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

stm32-hal - This library provides access to STM32 peripherals in Rust.

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

zero-copy-pads - Padding/aligning values without heap allocation

tock - A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers