I’m one of the RIOT-OS team members and I got a core in my hands recently. We are an open source IoT operating project, which has a long background in academics and is now evolving in the open source community for more than a year. I choose to let the bootloader in place and just replace the firmwa…

Replace core-firmware with RIOT-OS

bko September 18, 2014, 5:42pm 2

You are right about the bootloader watchdog - @satishgn can comment further but there are some details in this thread on sleeping the core:

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