[En-Nut-Discussion] FW: AVR32 / ARM support

[Ulrich Prinz]

Hi!

UC3A is not Cortex but AVR32, so its up to you Thiago :)

No, just kidding. There is a small group of people active in this list 
that try to give their best of supporting usual and unusual requests 
around Nut/OS. So it should not be a problem to get answers.

Some people use Nut/OS as it is and throw in their own pieces of code, 
even they ask some questions, you don't see them back in here as soon as 
the problems are solved. You don't see any code or drivers coming in 
from them too. We support them cause we like Nut/OS and the ideas behind 
it... and may be cause we are nice guys :)

Others try to split companies IPs and general code and the latter they 
give back to the community, what we all appreciate very much. These 
people we really love to support!

Ok, so I am actually porting Nut/OS for STM32 and Thiago already did 
this for AVR32. I will add some AT91SAM9 derivate in near future and 
there is an LPC2xxx series waiting for me. But first I need to finish my 
display driver library for all those OLEDs and LCDs.

The network...
I will definitely implement the MII driver for STM32 and support all 
those PHYs that are used on the STM32 and Olimex dev-kits coming with 
STM32. And I'd like to support IPV6 for Nut/OS. So if there is need for 
help, write me. I need to add https and may be SSH support for these 
faster CPUs too.

The problem with all those projects are, that there should be someone 
responsible for it, take it and keep it alive. With STM32 and some other 
drivers I just asked, no one answered and then I started it in my way. 
Now people are jumping in and support. But I know I have to keep the 
things running. I cannot add another work package as a 'manager' but I 
can support. So if you need
- SVN Access, repositories, branches e.t.c. I can do that
- Have questions about do's and dont's in Nut/OS I can help
- Write some API and / or twitch some pieces out of the hardware, no 
problem.
Lot of other guys in the list here can do the same. (May be besides the 
SVN management)

So, if there is someone who likes to manage the IPV6 for Nut/OS project: 
Give me a ping!

I don't have any AVR32 board... Oh, thats not right, I have a 
AVR32AP7000 with audio, LCD and running Linux.

Best regards
Ulrich