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doc: tweak Zephyr introduction features list

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Elevate prominence of some items buried in the services list that are
significant changes introduced in the last few releases.

Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
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David B. Kinder 2018-02-07 11:00:48 -08:00 • committed by Anas Nashif
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@ -53,14 +53,33 @@ small-footprint OSes:
to be defined at compile-time, which reduces code size and
increases performance for resource-limited systems.
**Minimal error checking**
**Minimal and Configurable error checking**
Provides minimal runtime error checking
to reduce code size and increase performance. An optional error-checking
infrastructure is provided to assist in debugging during application
development.
**Memory Protection**
Implements configurable architecture-specific stack-overflow protection,
kernel object and device driver permission tracking, and thread isolation
with thread-level memory protection on x86, ARC, and ARM architectures,
userspace, and memory domains.
**Native Networking Stack supporting multiple protocols**
Networking support is fully featured and optimized, including LwM2M
and BSD sockets compatible support. Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 support
includes BLE Mesh and a Bluetooth qualification-ready BLE controller.
OpenThread support (on Nordic chipsets) is also provided - a mesh
network designed to securely and reliably connect hundreds of products
around the home.
**Native Linux, macOS, and Windows Development**
A command-line CMake build environment runs on popular developer OS
systems. A native POSIX port, lets you build and run Zephyr as a native
application on Linux and other OSes, aiding development and testing.
**Extensive suite of services**
Offers a number of familiar services for development:
Zephyr offers a number of familiar services for development:
* *Multi-threading Services* for cooperative, priority-based,
non-preemptive, and preemptive threads with optional round robin
@ -71,9 +90,6 @@ small-footprint OSes:
* *Memory Allocation Services* for dynamic allocation and freeing of
fixed-size or variable-size memory blocks.
* *Memory Protection* wtih architecture-specific stack-overflow protection,
kernel object and device driver permission tracking, and thread isolation.
* *Inter-thread Synchronization Services* for binary semaphores,
counting semaphores, and mutex semaphores.
@ -83,23 +99,11 @@ small-footprint OSes:
* *Power Management Services* such as tickless idle and an advanced idling
infrastructure.
* *Native Networking Stack* fully featured and optimized, including
LwM2M and BSD sockets compatible support. OpenThread support is also
provided - a mesh network designed to securely and reliably
connect hundreds of products around the home.
* *Bluetooth Low Energy* 5.0 support including a Bluetooth
qualification-ready BLE controller, and BLE Mesh.
* *File system* with Newtron Flash Filesystem (NFFS) and FAT
support, and file system enhancements for logging and
* *File system* with Newtron Flash Filesystem (NFFS) and FATFS
support, FCB (Flash Circular Buffer) for memory constrained
applications, and file system enhancements for logging and
configuration.
* *Native Linux, macOS, and Windows Development* with command-line
Cmake build environment. A native POSIX port, letting you build and
run Zephyr as a native application on Linux and other OSes aids
development and testing.
* *ZTest infrastructure* and a coverage test suite for continuous
integration testing and verification as features are added and updated.