RTOS current status in 2020

[MarcelR]

Hi,

we would like to use a production ready open source RTOS with our nrf52840 development under Linux (with eclipse or visual studio code).

We have tried with mbed 5.11 BLE stack which worked fine, but this is not supported any more.
MBed now uses cordio for BLE which causes a lot of trouble, details here:

https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/issues/10669#issuecomment-597556556

Interesting is that Nordics Softdevice is criticised there.

I have found this nordic post about RTOS recommendations, but it is 4 years out dated:

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/nordic/nordic-blog/b/blog/posts/nrf5-series-a-popular-platform-for-open-source-rto

Nice would be to have easy debugging support from our Linux PCs and valrgind integration to do proper C++ testing.

Any feedback what works fine in your project is welcome.

@Nordic: What are your current recommendations - where are you actively participating?

thanks

Marcel

[Heidi]

Hi!

The nRF5 SDK offers support for FreeRTOS. 

Additionally, our nRF Connect SDK  is built upon the RTOS Zephyr.

We do not officially offer support for NCS running on the 52-series yet, but you are free to begin developing and testing samples on your own. The board-files for the nRF52-series have been created and can be found in zephyr/boards/arm. 

Best regards,

Heidi