I agree that we should use the board name instead of the kit name, if dk is
the same board as pdk.

On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, 15:12 Andrzej Kaczmarek, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Since nRF52840 DK is available for quite some time now, I was going to
> rename "nrf52840pdk" to "nrf52840dk" so it matches current version.
> However, it is a good moment to change naming scheme for all dev kits
> from Nordic and use board name (e.g. PCA10056) instead of dev kit name
> (e.g. nRF52840 DK). There are at least two good reasons for this:
>
> 1. avoid possible renames in future once new revision of dev kit is
> launched (PDK -> DK) since this is the same board, just with a
> different revision
> 2. make selection of proper BSP easier since each board has its name
> clearly visible on a sticker (note that BSP description states both
> names)
>
> I created a PR which does such rename:
> https://github.com/apache/mynewt-core/pull/1348
>
> Thoughs? Are there any good reasons why we should not rename it?
> (except for historical reasons :P)
>
> Best,
> Andrzej
>

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