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Add support for BouffaloLab chips
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Description
Please add support for BL602/BL604 made by BouffaloLab
The BL602 is a general purpose microcontroller based on the “SiFive E24 Core” RISC-V processor.
Notice that it's only based on the SiFive E24 Core, so I don't think the existing SiFive platform will work for this chip.
There's a lot of documentation and SDK's avaiable:
- https://www.bouffalolab.com/bl602
- https://github.com/bouffalolab (SDK's, NuttX fork, flashing tools)
- en docs: https://pine64.github.io/bl602-docs/
- BL602 vs Other RISC-V Microcontrollers (includes a list of 3 example boards)
- https://github.com/mkroman/awesome-bouffalo
There is a "Nutcracker challenge" to re-implement the Wifi and BLE blobs as open source, but I hope that the official SDKs (with the closed blobs) will be sufficient to get it working with PlatformIO in the meantime.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the BouffaloLab BL602/BL604 documentation and SDK links in the issue, then review the related platformio-core issue #4491. Determine the platform and SDK integration needed for both chips; done means PlatformIO can support projects targeting BL602 and BL604.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- build-system, embedded-iot
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100