Hi, I learned about Mynewt from James Pace's recent talk at the 4th RISC-V workshop. It seems like a great technical and cultural fit for the RISC-V ecosystem, which is filling out rapidly. I'm writing this email to inform the community about RISC-V, with the hope of attracting Mynewt developers to RISC-V platforms.
RISC-V is a free and open instruction set architecture developed by my group at UC Berkeley, which now is supported by the RISC-V Foundation with now over 40 members from many of the largest semiconductor and systems companies. As one example of the uptake, at this last workshop, Nvidia presented details of their embedded core evaluation and their decision to use RISC-V cores for the embedded controllers in their future products. Check out riscv.org for details. SiFive (sifive.com) is our new startup trying to provide the missing link between open-source hardware and production silicon. Based on the permissively licensed open-source RISC-V processor designs from UC Berkeley, SiFive will be continuing to support open-source RTL of the processor and platform. At SiFive, we've made available our Freedom Everywhere development system as a bitstring that can be downloaded to inexpensive FPGA development boards (dev.sifive.com). A full set of open-source development and debug tools are also available. We're keen to support a port of the Mynewt stack to RISC-V to our Freedom Everywhere platform, and the SiFive engineering team can support these efforts through the developer forum. We believe there could be many real-world applications for Mynewt on RISC-V, and the combination could represent a truly open alternative to other IoT stacks. Krste
