Is the softdevice fixed for working with BLE on RTOS types (RIOT, Kontiki, etc)?

[Yuma Antoine Decaux]

We have been recommended to use RIOT OS for our application and have been going through the tutorials but it seems that accessing the GNRC API for low ping ip communication is broken. It seems that people are having issues with the current nordic soft device which last worked from a december 2016 branch, but we are not sure how to solve this.

[bjorn-spockeli]

Hi Yuma,

officially we only support FreeRTOS for the nRF52 and FreeRTOS and RTX for the nRF51, i.e. we do release testing of our ports/implementations.

However, there are multiple other open source RTOS projects that have added support for nRF5x devices, that are not in our SDK, e.g. Riot OS and Kontiki, that are not tested. This means that a SoftDevice or SDK release with API changes from us may break something in their implementation.

As we do not have any direct involvement in these open-source projects,i.e. we do not include them in our SDK, then these issues has to be fixed by the community of the repective RTOSes.

Best regards

Bjørn