Portenta X8 BSP

Official Hardware Portenta Family Portenta X8
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Hello,

Is the portenta X8 BSP opensource?

Thanks

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I would guess: "no".
There is not really a full BSP as full OpenSource for Portenta H7. And Portenta H8 runs an embedded Linux - it would be very heavy and complex (providing the low-level features for a Linux system). And it is an NXP multi-core chip (I guess with ARM A-processors inside) - such a BSP can be very complex. I would assume, most users would not be able to understand what is done and how to use (esp. with focus to launch Linux kernel, not for bare-metal programming).

From my side I would ask: is there a way to extend the Linux kernel, to modify drivers (Linux build project) or to add custom drivers to Linux kernel? (a BSP would not help me really, if I had to deal with building the Linux kernel again).

Is there an Open Source Linux kernel build project?

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hi, just bumped into this post.
we have a tutorial https://docs.arduino.cc/tutorials/portenta-x8/image-building
and here is the repo with the manifest GitHub - arduino/lmp-manifest

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