Re: [riot-devel] RIOT policy on hardware support without example board

[Matthew Blue]

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  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
>  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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Re: [riot-devel] RIOT policy on hardware support without example board

[Joakim Nohlgård]

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
 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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> devel@riot-os.org
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