CMSIS Version 5 will focus on improvements and further industry adoption. The license will be changed to the permissive Apache 2.0 license, to enable contributions from interested third parties.
Support for the new ARMv8-M architecture will be added as well as improvements for ARM Cortex-A/Cortex-M based hybrid devices (with a clear focus on Cortex-M interaction).
The CMSIS-RTOS API and RTX reference implementation with get several enhancements:
CMSIS-Pack will get additions for generic example projects, project templates, and multiple download portals. It will also adopt the Flash loader technology from IAR Systems.
As announced on embedded world, the development repository of CMSIS Version 5 is now available on GitHub: https://github.com/ARM-software/CMSIS_5
ARM invites all interested parties to contribute and/or to provide feedback for the CMSIS project using GitHub.
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Hello hrusch,
thanks for your comments. The Readme.md of CMSIS already states what to expect and what do do with it:
The reason for having two different repos is the last one here: CMSIS version 4 and earlier had another license than CMSIS 5 and above. While Liviu is able to change the license for his CMSIS++ project as he wishes, this is not an option for us. Thus, we have decided to create the CMSIS_5 repo for further development and collaboration. I hope you understand this.