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Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> writes:
> Will 8th be running on this hardware bare with no OS? Or will it have
> some sort of Linux? I see advantages with both ways but many times
> having Linux is way overkill that just makes a board slow.

The CPU involved doesn't have the type of MMU that Linux normally wants.
So I'd be surprised if it ran Linux.  The M7 is basically a beefed up
M4: there are various RTOS's available and 8th might provide its own.
The hardware also implements simple segment-based memory protection to
prevent subsystems in the software from clobbering each other.

I do have to wonder what the attractions of this board will be, compared
to existing M7 evaluation boards.  E.g. this board is $50 at digikey and
looks amazing:

http://www.st.com/web/en/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/LN1848/PF261641