On 2/28/16 10:02 PM, will sanfilippo wrote:
Given the current state of the Mynewt hal, I think the question we need to answer is whether or not the mbed hal provides the functionality we think developers will need. Looks like what mbed is doing and mynewt is doing are very similar. Why not just co-opt the mbed HAL entirely? I cant think of a good reason not to, but I have not looked at the mbed hal in enough detail, especially in regard to bsp. Anyway, i dont think it will be hard to map mynewt to mbed. I just dont like it if it adds another layer of indirection (i.e. efficiency).
I think we will need to: mbed-hal is being developed only for ARM processors. If we want to use the HAL on other MCUs (MIPS, 8051, Intel, etc.) -- it would be good to have this mapped.
It seems like a lot less work to map the API into ours (once), then have to maintain mbed-hal separately from ARM for non-ARM MCUs.
Sterling
