mbed-os VS FreeRTOS-Kernel

I see that the kl05 target was removed in os6 but it is present in os5.

It looks like both mbed: https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/pull/14488

View various projects on github in the area of your choice. Select a project you like and look into open issues. For eg https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os seems to have 166 issues ongoing. Choose one!

Most of my interaction with mbed was when it a massive pita since it was still closed source.. I do have one interaction with the project since they opened it though

ARM Mbed OS – Update available

Here is the port - https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/tree/main/portable/ThirdParty/GCC/Posix

Freertos has support for generic cortex m3: https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/tree/main/portable/GCC/ARM_CM3 It could very well work almost out of the box with your mcu.

the only OS written in iso c i found was RTOS and they have open bug reports due to strict aliasing in simple things like their linked list implementation, which they don't bother to fix because somehow that causes even more problems (?!): https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/pull/54

You likely put the requirements of POSIX just to have an excuse. Fyi, FreeRTOS kernel, the only thing you need, is here: https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/

- https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel (architecture, C)

FreeRTOS comes with 5 quite simple reference implementations of the heap memory allocator. You can study how it works.

The main branch is single-core. You're looking for the SMP branch.

On non-POSIX systems, malloc & free are implemented differently. EG FreeRTOS has some very simple malloc (and optionally free) implementations, eg heap_2.c (has malloc & free, but doesn't consolidate blocks), or heap_4.c (more complex, tries to prevent fragmentation by consolidating blocks, still less optmized & simpler than the glibc malloc/free used by most Linux systems).