When using a SoftDevice, the MSD flash method is not appropriate as it
will erase the entire flash area before writing the new firmware. This
also wipes the SoftDevice. Instead, use OpenOCD to only rewrite the
parts of flash that need to be rewritten and leave the SoftDevice alone.
By modifying the linker script a bit and adding the NRO0 header directly
in the assembly, it's possible to craft an ELF file that can be
converted straight to a binary (using objcopy or similar) that is a NRO
file. This avoids custom code for NRO files or an extra build step.
With another change, .nro files are recognized by TinyGo so that this
will create a ready-to-run NRO file:
tinygo build -o test.nro -target=nintendoswitch examples/serial
Instead of specifying the emulator command in atmega328p.json, specify
it in the two boards based on it (arduino and arduino-nano). This makes
the configuration consistent with the machine package, which only
defines the CPUFrequency function in the board files (and not in
machine_atmega328p.json).
Right now this requires setting the -port parameter, but other than that
it totally works (if esptool.py is installed). It works by converting
the ELF file to the custom ESP32 image format and flashing that using
esptool.py.
This is only very minimal support. More support (such as tinygo flash,
or peripheral access) should be added in later commits, to keep this one
focused.
Importantly, this commit changes the LLVM repo from llvm/llvm-project to
tinygo-org/llvm-project. This provides a little bit of versioning in
case something changes in the Espressif fork. If we want to upgrade to
LLVM 11 it's easy to switch back to llvm/llvm-project until Espressif
has updated their fork.
The SoftDevice should already be installed on these chips. Adding the
right build tags makes them work with the bluetooth package.
I did not change the HasLowFrequencyCrystal property: all these boards
use the MDBT50Q which appears to include a low-frequency oscillator.
That is, I tested the ItsyBitsy nRF52840 with the property set to true
and advertisement worked just fine.
This also fixes a bug: the Bluefruit doesn't have a low frequency
crystal. Somehow non-SoftDevice code still worked. However, the
SoftDevice won't initialize when this flag is set incorrectly.
This is a big change that will determine the stack size for many
goroutines automatically. Functions that aren't recursive and don't call
function pointers can in many cases have an automatically determined
worst case stack size. This is useful, as the stack size is usually much
lower than the previous hardcoded default of 1024 bytes: somewhere
around 200-500 bytes is common.
A side effect of this change is that the default stack sizes (including
the stack size for other architectures such as AVR) can now be changed
in the config JSON file, making it tunable per application.
For now, this is just an extra flag that can be used to print stack
frame information, but this is intended to provide a way to determine
stack sizes for goroutines at compile time in many cases.
Stack sizes are often somewhere around 350 bytes so are in fact not all
that big usually. Once this can be determined at compile time in many
cases, it is possible to use this information when available and as a
result increase the fallback stack size if the size cannot be determined
at compile time. This should reduce stack overflows while at the same
time reducing RAM consumption in many cases.
Interesting output for testdata/channel.go:
function stack usage (in bytes)
Reset_Handler 332
.Lcommand-line-arguments.fastreceiver 220
.Lcommand-line-arguments.fastsender 192
.Lcommand-line-arguments.iterator 192
.Lcommand-line-arguments.main$1 184
.Lcommand-line-arguments.main$2 200
.Lcommand-line-arguments.main$3 200
.Lcommand-line-arguments.main$4 328
.Lcommand-line-arguments.receive 176
.Lcommand-line-arguments.selectDeadlock 72
.Lcommand-line-arguments.selectNoOp 72
.Lcommand-line-arguments.send 184
.Lcommand-line-arguments.sendComplex 192
.Lcommand-line-arguments.sender 192
.Lruntime.run$1 548
This shows that the stack size (if these numbers are correct) can in
fact be determined automatically in many cases, especially for small
goroutines. One of the great things about Go is lightweight goroutines,
and reducing stack sizes is very important to make goroutines
lightweight on microcontrollers.
Debug information is often useful and there is no reason to include it
for Go code but not for C code. Also, disabling debug information should
disable it entirely, not just for Go code.
- Fix UART & putChar
- Timer-based sleep
- Enable systick in abort
- Buffered, interrupt-based UART TX
- Use the new interrupt API and fix sleepTicks
- Make pins behave more like other boards
- Use the MCU's UART numbering
- Allow interrupts to wake the scheduler (#1214)
This is needed to avoid linking errors because the globals are placed
in memory at address 0x80000000 which is out of bounds for the default
code model.
It was `avr-atmel-none`, which is incorrect. It must be
`avr-unknown-unknown`.
Additionally, there is no reason to specify the target triple per chip,
it can be done for all AVR chips at once as it doesn't vary like
Cortex-M chips.
Lucas Teske
Ayke van Laethem
ardnew
jreamy
ardnew
sago35
Ron Evans
Elliott Sales de Andrade
BCG
Ethan Reesor
Yannis Huber
Hiroki Noda
APDevice