Hi all,

I think this board would come close: it features the ATmega1284P with an
RTC:
https://www.microchip.com/DevelopmentTools/ProductDetails.aspx?PartNO=ATMEGA1284P-XPLD
.

Kind regards,

Bas Stottelaar


2018-03-16 7:03 GMT+01:00 Joakim Nohlgård <joakim.nohlg...@eistec.se>:

> Hi again,
>
> Is there no readily available commercial dev boards which feature an
> RTC crystal? Generally, boards in the main repo have to be available
> commercially or at least accessible for a large number of users
> (IoT-lab boards for example are only available in the IoT-lab test
> sites, but they are open to the public). I don't think your custom dev
> board will be accepted unless you are selling it, at least in small
> volumes, so that other users may benefit from the board config. It may
> be easier to just find some pre-made dev board which have similar
> peripheral set up and add a configuration for that to be able to add
> the CPU.
>
> /Joakim
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Matthew Blue
> <matthew.blue.ne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Joakim,
> >
> > I do have such a board: the board I am developing for. I also already
> > have it ported and passing many of the manual tests. However, my concern
> > is that I do not anticipate this board being generally available,
> > because of the kind of product it is going to be in. Is it okay for me
> > to be the only developer with access to a board in the main repository?
> > I assumed that others would wish everything in /boards to be generally
> > available. However, adding it to the main repository would allow the CI
> > system to run automated tests against its peripherals.
> >
> > There are other boards using the same MCU, but they do not have the
> > peripherals that my board has. For instance, I have almost finished RTT
> > support for the ATMegas, but none of the Arduinos breaks out the pins
> > that would allow you to add a 32kHz crystal.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Matthew
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:20:37 +0100
> > Joakim Nohlgård <joakim.nohlg...@eistec.se> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Matthew,
> >> Generally, everything in the main repository should be covered by the
> >> automatic compilation tests performed by the CI system, which is why
> >> all CPUs must have at least one board using them. Perhaps you have
> >> some development board which uses the same CPU that you can add a
> >> basic configuration for? A board configuration can be quite simple if
> >> you only need the basic features, and should not take a lot of effort
> >> to produce. Maybe there is an Arduino board or similar which uses the
> >> same CPU?
> >> The drivers for TCA9539 and ADS1015 can be integrated in the main repo
> >> as long as there is a simple test program for them so that they are
> >> built by the CI, and so that they can be tested on actual hardware
> >> with only adding the pin/bus configuration for the experiment setup.
> >> See the existing tests for some drivers in the main repo e.g.
> >> tests/driver_ina220
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Joakim
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:49 PM, Matthew Blue
> >> <matthew.blue.ne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hello all,
> >> >
> >> > I am building mesh networking sensor arrays for agriculture, and I
> >> > am working on RIOT as an operating system for them. I have a number
> >> > of bits of hardware that I need to write support for and I would
> >> > like to contribute that back to RIOT. However, since this is ag
> >> > equipment designed to be deployed in large quantities, I expect
> >> > that it will not really be available for developers other than
> >> > myself to test on.
> >> >
> >> > What is the RIOT community's policy on submitting support for things
> >> > like CPUs and peripherals without a board implementing them? I
> >> > intend to support what I contribute into the foreseeable future. I
> >> > suspect that having hardware already supported will influence
> >> > future board designs if they are intended to run a system like RIOT
> >> > (it influenced some of my design choices).
> >> >
> >> > Some of the specific bits I intend to add are the ATmega1284P MCU,
> >> > the TCA9539 I2C GPI expander, and the ADS1015 ADC (and variants).
> >> >
> >> > Sincerely,
> >> > Matthew
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