Re: OS Event Queue errors in blinky

2016-11-11 Thread aditi hilbert
Hi David, Is there a reason you want/need to replace the bootloader while an app is running on a device? This is a pretty atypical scenario, in my opinion. thanks, aditi > On Nov 11, 2016, at 11:16 AM, David G. Simmons wrote: > > Interesting side-effect: > > If the blinky

Re: OS Event Queue errors in blinky

2016-11-11 Thread David G. Simmons
Interesting side-effect: If the blinky app is running, and I attempt to re-load a new version of the bootloader I'm back to: DSimmons-Pro:arduino_zero dsimmons$ newt load arduino_boot Loading bootloader Error: Downloading

Re: OS Event Queue errors in blinky

2016-11-11 Thread David G. Simmons
Hi Chris, Thanks for the insight on this. Yes, that's an interesting side effect. I'm inclined to agree with you that we leave blinky as-is for the release. I'll think about some possible wording for the Tutorials pages around blinky to indicate that it is, indeed, a "hello world" and that we

Re: OS Event Queue errors in blinky

2016-11-11 Thread Christopher Collins
Hi David, That is an interesting find. The problem is that blinky does not set a default eventq for taskless packages to use. If a package requires an event queue, and none has been designated, it triggers a crash with a failed assert. Blinky in its original state doesn't crash because it