- Yes it is vibe coded. It do work on real S31 dev boards (there's console output and binary releases to prove that.) I understand the esp32 microcontroller architecture to some extent, but I barely know how to port Linux to other RISC-V platforms; what I did is to tell the agent something like "Go implement an IPC transport that uses a shared SRAM buffer and an IPC interrupt doorbell" or "sdmmc uses designware ip; search esp-idf usage and port the existing Linux driver over." An AI agent on its own would never discover S31's bespoke hardware behavior without my guidance, for example, that the register `mcliccfg` has writable bits, despite esp-idf saying otherwise. However I admit that AI assistance is the direct reason why I am able to progress this fast, and I did learn a lot about kernel development during the process. If you're bothered by AI code, move on.
- Untested is a bit misleading: per the README, means "seems working; not thoroughly tested." They do seem to work at the time when their drivers are being built. Three weeks into this project I can't have everything stress-tested already.
- I built this more as a proof of concept intending for my own use; I did not expect it to gain popularity anytime soon, so the docs are very bad for now.
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Author here, few things to clarify:
- Yes it is vibe coded. It do work on real S31 dev boards (there's console output and binary releases to prove that.) I understand the esp32 microcontroller architecture to some extent, but I barely know how to port Linux to other RISC-V platforms; what I did is to tell the agent something like "Go implement an IPC transport that uses a shared SRAM buffer and an IPC interrupt doorbell" or "sdmmc uses designware ip; search esp-idf usage and port the existing Linux driver over." An AI agent on its own would never discover S31's bespoke hardware behavior without my guidance, for example, that the register `mcliccfg` has writable bits, despite esp-idf saying otherwise. However I admit that AI assistance is the direct reason why I am able to progress this fast, and I did learn a lot about kernel development during the process. If you're bothered by AI code, move on.
- Untested is a bit misleading: per the README, means "seems working; not thoroughly tested." They do seem to work at the time when their drivers are being built. Three weeks into this project I can't have everything stress-tested already.
- I built this more as a proof of concept intending for my own use; I did not expect it to gain popularity anytime soon, so the docs are very bad for now.