Anyone wanna help port the ESP32 to Particle (unofficially)?

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I’ve started on writing the Hardware Abstraction Layer for the ESP32, specifically the ESP-WROOM-32 because I just made a circuit using it and need to work on porting it to Particle before 60 copies of it arrive in the mail. I’ve never written a HAL before.

From the looks of it, a lot of people would love the two merged together, which is why I ask if anyone wants to help. Particle claims it is not up to their security standards. So it has to be done unofficially.

Here’s what I got so far and I’ll try to update that as I make progress.
Following their guide I’ve currently gotten into the part where I gotta learn to write a linker script. It’d be cool if anyone knew linker script stuff already.
I believe I have gotten the memory addresses correctly put in the script, referencing the ESP32 Manual for data btw. That’s all I got for now.

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One place that might already be doing this might be http://digistump.com/oak/ given they already make an esp8266 version at the very least their source for that could be useful.

I wonder what the security issue is, presumably it is the same thing that stops the Oak being device you can create a Product around in the console…

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I would guess that it is physical security of data. Users have access to the EFUSE ROM and can write their own, prettymuch letting users pretend to be other devices. Also a possibility is physical access to data like JTAG or something, idk. First one seems more likely.