ATtiny85 core question

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Hi everyone,
I’m using the ATtiny85 for my project and I would like to know what core platformIO uses.

Searching on platformio/platforms/atmelavr/boards, i think it uses the “tiny” core, base on ATtinyCore (GitHub - SpenceKonde/ATTinyCore: Arduino core for ATtiny 1634, 828, x313, x4, x41, x5, x61, x7 and x8), an if i try to use the SoftwareSerial it loads the SoftwareSerial made by ATtinyCore.

If i use the Adafruit Gemma (it use the tiny85 chip) i see that uses the “arduino” core, not the “tiny”. So the can use the standard SoftwareSerial library.

My question is:
can i use the “arduino” core when i need to use the standard SoftwareSerial and the “tiny” core then i need to use the SoftwareSerial from the ATtinyCore ?

Is it the ATtinyCore, on PlatformIO, updated at the last version on GitHub - SpenceKonde/ATTinyCore: Arduino core for ATtiny 1634, 828, x313, x4, x41, x5, x61, x7 and x8?

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  1. ATTinyCore has been updated to the latest stable version
  2. It seems that you can switch between cores using board options Redirecting...

See platform-atmelavr/attiny85.json at develop · platformio/platform-atmelavr · GitHub

You need to override core and variant.