Trying to Add support for Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840

[porint-manufacturing]

Hi,

I am trying to use BlueMicro_BLE with Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840.

The Adafruit BSP for the XIAO nRF52840 is available in the Seeed-Studio/Adafruit_nRF52_Arduino, which is a fork from adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Arduino.

If I want to add a board, should I copy the contents of the variants folder in the "Seeed-Studio/Adafruit_nRF52_Arduino" repository to jpconstantineau/Community_nRF52_Arduino/variants and commit it? Is it enough?
I'm new to BlueMicro and Github and wasn't sure if this was the right way.

For reference, here is some information related to the Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840.

• Board information from the manufacturer: Getting Started with Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 (Sense) - Seeed Wiki

Please let me know if you need any other information.

Thank you.

[jpconstantineau]

If this is the only change they have done to their repo, this would be the way.
I would prefer if it were added here instead/as well since it's tracking the latest Adafruit nrf52 one.

However, if they have made significant changes and need a different bootloader (to support the latest version of the Softdevice), then I suspect we might not be able to merge them.

[porint-manufacturing]

I did a little more digging to see what differences there were between the Adafruit repository and the Seeed Studio fork.

The following differences were found:

• The files for their board (for the XIAO nRF52840) have been added to the bootloader and variants folders, and the original Adafruit files have been removed. The board.txt has also been modified to reflect this change.
• A file for nordic SoftDevice S140 7.3.0 has been added to core/nRF52/.
• Part of libraries/Bluefruit52Lib/ has been modified.
• Other (possibly) minor changes

I checked the fork diffs at the following URL:
adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Arduino@1.3.0...Seeed-Studio:master

Do you think that Community_nRF52_Arduino or BlueMicro_BLE will need significant modifications to achieve my goal?