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Credits & Prior Art
Mestre is built on top of substantial work by others. This document records the specific provenance of vendored code and the people who made the project feasible from day one.
Hardware enablement (X6200)
Aether project
Mestre vendors the following from the Aether project:
br2_external/board/x6200/dts/sun8i-r16-x6200.dts— device treebr2_external/board/x6200/uboot/uboot.config— U-Boot defconfigbr2_external/board/x6200/uboot/boot.cmd— U-Boot boot scriptbr2_external/board/x6200/linux/patches/0001-drm-panel-jinglitai-jlt4013a.patch— LCD panel driver, forward-ported from Aether'slcd.patch
Aether's project goal (improving the X6200 as a transceiver) differs from Mestre's (using the X6200 as a control head for other SDRs), but Aether's upstream-friendly hardware enablement work made this project feasible without reverse-engineering the vendor kernel. All vendored files retain their original copyright headers.
Linux-sunxi community
apritzel (#linux-sunxi @ OFTC) — provided the device-tree guidance for the X6200, acknowledged in the DTS source itself.
LCD panel driver
Rui Oliveira and Oleg Belousov (2022) — original authors of the Jinglitai JLT4013A panel driver. Their copyright headers are preserved in the patch.
SDR stack
piHPSDR
John Melton (G0ORX/N6LYT) and contributors — piHPSDR, the GTK3 SDR console Mestre wraps. Mestre's design relies on piHPSDR's existing MIDI control infrastructure, which lets us avoid patching the console itself. Source: https://github.com/g0orx/pihpsdr
WDSP
Warren Pratt (NR0V) — the WDSP DSP library that piHPSDR depends on. Linux port maintained by G0ORX. Source: https://github.com/g0orx/wdsp
SoapySDR / SoapyRemote
Pothosware and contributors — the vendor- and platform-neutral SDR support library and its network-transparent extension. Source: https://github.com/pothosware
Hermes-Lite 2
Steve Haynal (KF7O) and the Hermes-Lite 2 community — the open-hardware HF SDR transceiver Mestre is initially designed to control. The HL2 is the canonical target, but Mestre should work with any HPSDR-protocol radio piHPSDR supports.
Buildroot
The Buildroot project — the embedded Linux build system Mestre uses. Mestre tracks the Buildroot 2025.02 LTS line. Source: https://buildroot.org/
Smaller borrowings
- The MIDI input bridge concept and initial Python sketch (
mestred) was developed during earlier prototyping by the project author against the Aether-derived image; the production version is rewritten as a proper Python package but owes its shape to that earlier work.