So this would be like a cross-vendor parametric search for boards... cool! It would also be helpful if this kind of parametric search could be part of the NuttX website. This way, visitors who hear about NuttX can see the great number of supported boards and choose one for their project. They might end up choosing a board they would not have heard of otherwise.
Here's an additional idea: Tags would require manual effort to set and maintain. But the Kconfig files already have this knowledge encoded in them, since features (like networking, for example) must be enabled in Kconfig. So wouldn't it be possible to somehow parse the Kconfig files to build the database for the parametric search? Just a thought... Cheers, Nathan On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM Matteo Golin <matteo.go...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am starting a new drone project which I am hoping to use NuttX for, and > as part of the project I am looking for NuttX > supported boards that include WiFi support. I was thinking, it might be > useful for the NuttX documentation to make use > of a tag system to easily search for features. > > I found this Sphinx extension that allows you to use tags, maybe we could > start using it in NuttX's docs: > https://sphinx-tags.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html#usage > > This way it would be possible to filter boards by different features, > which would be a useful search feature. For > example, the XIAO ESP32S3 has hardware support for WiFi: > > https://nuttx.apache.org/docs/latest/platforms/xtensa/esp32s3/boards/esp32s3-xiao/index.html > > But I don't think NuttX implements it yet. If I were able to filter by > boards that support WiFi, I wouldn't have to look > up supported boards I'm not familiar with, or read all their documentation > pages. I wanted to know what others think; > would this would be worthwhile to add or is it just more work to ensure > that documented boards include the proper tags? > > On a side note, if there is anyone who has written WiFi support for a chip > in NuttX, please let me know if you have any > tips to get started or if you've happened to write a guide. I might decide > to spend some time on adding support for > wireless chips to learn more about it. > > Thanks! > > -- > Matteo Golin >
