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Kiboneu | 6 days ago

To be clear and towards the OP's comment about ESP32 ISA -- Xtensa isn't really a self contained architecture, it can be customized (extended) by the vendor. The ISA can be extended for these customizations. ESP32 is one customization of it.

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sitkack|6 days ago

It was only opaquely supported by GCC, no LLVM, so no Rust.

It is a cool design, but it was a major PITA for awhile. Xtensa is parametric so every instance of a cpu has a custom instruction set.

Kiboneu|5 days ago

Heh. Yep. Reverse engineering firmware for a custom xtensa cpu is also a lot of “fun” (and also fun).