In the most recent post in the RISC-V Bytes series, we had our first experience with real hardware, exploring the bootloader on an ESP32-C3-DevKitC-02 module. We were using esp-idf, which, behind the scenes uses an implementation of FreeRTOS. In this post, we’ll swap out the Espressif FreeRTOS implementation for Zephyr, exploring some similarities and differences between the build process and produced artifacts. We’ll also see how we can slim down a Zephyr installation, only fetching the code and tools that we need to target the ESP32-C3 chipset.