On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 8:39 AM Binh Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I would like to get some early feedback on the RZ/V2H port. > > We are porting NuttX to the Renesas RZ/V2H Cortex-R8 and currently reuse the > vendor-maintained FSP HAL for the low-level peripheral drivers. > NuttX still owns the driver interfaces, architecture integration, board > support, Kconfig and build integration. A thin adaptation layer connects the > NuttX drivers to the FSP HAL. > > Before we prepare the upstream patches, would using RZ FSP as a third-party > HAL dependency be acceptable to the NuttX community? > I have also followed the recent esp-hal-3rdparty discussion. I understand > that external HAL dependencies raise concerns about governance, maintenance > and community control, so I would like to clarify the expected approach early. > > FSP HAL is maintained by Renesas, and our team intends to maintain the NuttX > RZ/V2H integration and support future FSP updates. > > Would this approach be feasible, and what requirements should we satisfy > regarding licensing, version pinning, CI and long-term maintenance? > > Thanks in advance. > Binh Nguyen > Renesas Electronics
BIG NO to external vendor HAL, all driver should be in-tree and part of the NuttX RTOS, thank you :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
