Thanks, very informative! You should add it to the website. Cheers,
Tim On 18 August 2016 at 19:27, Sterling Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Welcome! > > The BLE stack was written primarily by Chris and Will, who work at Runtime > (https://runtime.io/, with contributions and support from Johan at > Intel.) I’ll point out: as an Apache project, neither Runtime nor Intel > “own” the direction of this project: it’s direction is decided by the > committers (who happen to be majority Runtime at the moment: but we’re > looking to expand that!) > > The project was started because we believed there needed to be a community > driven open-source project out there that provided an operating system for > these constrained embedded environments (cortex-m*, pic32, riscv5). After > having spent years at various product companies spending the majority of > our time essentially building our own operating systems from pieces and > parts. We had looked at mbed, and weren’t happy with both the software > design and community model — so we thought “let’s build one ourself.” :-) > > Mynewt is a play on the term “minute” (tiny.) It also happens to be > easily trademarkable/doesn’t infringe on people’s trademarks. The project > was originally called Stack, but that had all sorts of issues. > > The goal is to create a full operating system environment that makes it > easy to build connected products — from an open source Bluetooth stack to > secure boot loader and software upgrade. You can see the original Mynewt > proposal here: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MynewtProposal > > Best, > > sterling > > > On 18 Aug 2016, at 3:19, Tim Hutt wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I just discovered this project and had a go at building bleprph for the >> nRF51-DK. It worked perfectly, which is very impressive! I'm just curious >> - >> there's a lot of code in implementing a BLE stack. Where did it all come >> from? Was it all written by volunteers, or are some of you employed to >> work >> on it? Basically what is the history of the project. Also why the name >> "mynewt"? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Tim >> >
