On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 8:21 PM Felipe Moura Oliveira <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I would like to raise a concern about NuttX’s dependency on Espressif’s > esp-hal-3rdparty <https://github.com/espressif/esp-hal-3rdparty> > repository > and discuss whether there is a way to give the NuttX community more control > over the changes required for its development. > > The repository is publicly available, but it is maintained and controlled > by a single private company. As a result, external contributions are > handled according to that company’s internal priorities and availability, > which can make it difficult for the NuttX community to address issues that > block our own development. > > As a concrete example, I opened espressif/esp-hal-3rdparty#13 > <https://github.com/espressif/esp-hal-3rdparty/pull/13>, it has been open > for 28 days. It is a small change consisting of one commit and 15 added > lines across two header files—six lines in one file and nine in the other. > The PR has been acknowledged, but it has not received a technical review, > and there is no expected completion date. > > I understand that the Espressif maintainers have other priorities, and this > is not intended as criticism of the individuals involved. However, I > believe it illustrates a governance problem for NuttX: changes required to > support NuttX on specific hardware may depend on a repository whose review > process and priorities are outside the control of our community. > > My experience while porting Dropbear <https://github.com/mkj/dropbear> was > quite different. We encountered some problems during the port, but its > maintainer actively helped by reviewing the code, suggesting changes, and > quickly accepting the corresponding upstream pull requests. > > I would therefore like to ask whether it would be possible to maintain a > fork of esp-hal-3rdparty under the Apache/NuttX umbrella, with appropriate > NuttX committers having write access. Such a fork could continue tracking > Espressif’s upstream repository, and generally useful changes could still > be submitted upstream whenever possible. > > If maintaining a repository under Apache is not feasible or > appropriate, another > suggestion I have is to start building our own HAL and via kconfig select > between the internal driver or the 3rd-party. If you have other > suggestions, please let's talk about them. > > > > *--Felipe Moura de Oliveira* > Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/felipe-oliveira-75a651a0> > AFAIK, in the past, NuttX did have its own hardware support for all platforms. Depending on 3rd party code for Espressif platforms is different than what NuttX usually does.
