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[ruabmbua]

Hi!

I am really excited about this project, and wanted to ask, if you can give me some pointers for bootstrapping a new MCU for the project. Specifically a STM32F407VGT6 on a F4-discovery board.

I already found this hardware page, which states, that STM33F4X is a secondary target, but I can`t find anything in the repository for it.

I guess it was removed, because it is not up to date any more.

I would not mind making a fork, and trying to add support for at least the MCU itself, the board can wait.

[jcsoo]

The STM32F4 Discovery was the first board that I owned, and I don't think the board and MCU descriptions are terribly out of date. I'll merge in the most recent version and see what it looks like.

[andreytkachenko]

Hi, It would be great! I have also started adding stm32f429i board. Thank You! The library is awesome :)

[robomancer-or]

I'd like to throw time into supporting the STM32F437, we should probably coordinate so we're not all repeating each other's efforts. @jcsoo do you have a sense of how best to orchestrate us all adding support for closely related chips?

[jcsoo]

For now I suggest creating a new issue titled something like "Add MCU support for xxx" or "Add Board support for xxx" with a brief description of the scope as well as a link to the specific datasheets / reference manuals for the device you will be supporting and a link to a dev board that uses the MCU (if applicable). It would also be helpful to include a list of the model / part numbers of the variants that will be covered.

That will give people a chance to see who is working on what and also discuss stuff like whether a particular MCU should have it's own definition or if it should be treated as a variant of some other MCU.

[andreytkachenko]

Ok, currently I am working on adding stm32f429i-disco board, I have also stm32f4-discovery one, may be after(if no one will start) I will add it too

[jcsoo]

@andreytkachenko - I added back the stm32f42x MCU and nucleo board. It should be easy to add the stm32f429 discovery board by copying the nucleo-429zi board.

If you want to take a shot at implementing the stm32f40x MCU by copying the stm32f42x, please feel free to do so - open a new issue so that we know. Otherwise I will probably work on it later in the week.

I'm going to leave this issue open so that we have a place for people to ask questions before opening new issues.

[andreytkachenko]

@jcsoo Thanks, I already updated my changes against the latest master. If it matter I can open PR with WIP mark to let everyone track and advice how is it going

[odlg]

Please add support for blue-pill.