Zephyr instead of FreeRTOS on i.mx8 mini?

[dav1]

Anyone successfully running Zephyr (https://www.zephyrproject.org/) on the M4?

Team NXP,

any plans on supporting this as an alternative to FreeRTOS?

[CarlosCasillas]

Hi,

Until now, just FreeRTOS is the available option from NXP to use with the M4 core of the i.MX8.

There are some 3rd parties that may provide additional BSPs for NXP processors. You could directly send your request to Zephyr, as they are NXP partners.

Hope this will be useful for you.
Best regards!
/Carlos
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[dav1]

Hi Carlos,

Any plans to support it (in the near term roadmap)?

[maureen]

Not at the moment, but the Zephyr community would welcome a contribution and help provide some guidance if you're interested to do it.

[dav1]

maureen‌ we'd really like to see this happen. 

Maybe you've seen, but there is some work done here that looks promising!

Zephyr support for NXP i.MX8M SoC · Issue #17814 · zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr · GitHub 

It would be great if someone from NXP can support reviewing it and also continue by adding additional peripheral support (not knowing how much that is supported by the NXP FreeRTOS release as of today)

[maureen]

Yes, we will support reviewing it