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jakkra / ZSWatch

ZSWatch - the Open Source Zephyr™ based Smartwatch, including both HW and FW.
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Question: why base on Zephyr rather than NCS #145

Closed pellepl closed 9 months ago

pellepl commented 9 months ago

This is not a bug, but a question: what was the reason for choosing to base the project on Zephyr rather than on Nordics Connect SDK version of Zephyr? I read it was due to some code not yet merged into NCS, but I'd like to know more specific.

And multitudes of gratitude for open sourcing this great project! Impressive!

jakkra commented 9 months ago

Hi, the idea was that pure Zephyr is more open than NCS. NCS contains Nordic licensed code which may only run on Nordic HW. Using stock Zephyr means the code could port to additional HW if we want easily.

But anyway, actually right now we are using NCS 2.5 default, as for iOS there is a bunch of stuff not part of stock Zephyr, so it's just more handy to stay with NCS and not fight it. NCS 2.5 contains the fixes needed and that it's now default. Could be some documentation is not updated to say this, but as you can see here: https://github.com/jakkra/ZSWatch/blob/main/app/west.yml NCS is default.

pellepl commented 9 months ago

Cheers!