Previously, this was hard-coded to allow one file, hard-coded to be
called "flash file".
This commit allows multiple files to be specified via adding them to the
TEST_EXTRA_FILES variable. All files will be stored in the worker's
application bin directory.
Also, the existence check has been removed, as dwqc bails out on missing
file anyways.
Currently, some targets are serialized before "clean" by conditionally
adding a dependency.
Make does allow ordering using "|" syntax in prerequisites, but for
"clean" that would always trigger the clean target.
By only conditionally setting $(CLEAN) to clean, that can be
circumvented.
The new CLEAN allows any recipe to be run after "clean" by specifying "|
$(CLEAN)" as prerequisite.
The mips-malta board is a maintainance burden, has no working UART input
and is unobtainable and thus must be removed.
1. Unobtainable board
=====================
The mips-malta board is not an off-the-shelf part. A quick web
search only show the MIPS website where one is told to "contact sales".
I could find it on ebay, used, at €155 and from single seller.
Not having access to the board means:
a. We cannot maintain it. In fact it could be broken right now.
b. Potential RIOT uses have not access to the board either. In other
words, it is pointless to run on hardware nobody has.
2. No working UART input
========================
Not all applications need UART input, but that is no excuse for not supporting
it:
a. Makes development & debugging way harder.
b. It is impossible to run interactive tests.
b.1. Constrains the rest of the platforms by providing an incentive to not
make tests interactive.
c. The lack of UART is a witness to the poor quality of the port.
I want to stress point (c). If something as basic as a serial port cannot work,
how can we expect more complex fucntionality to work. The answer is impossible
to know, because of point (1).
3. Maintainance burden
======================
The RIOT project has limited time and human resources which can be better spent.
a. Compiling for mips-malta wastes CPU time.
b. Blacklisting the board in the test wastes contributor's time.
c. Adapting the board's makefile during build system rework takes time and makes
the reworks harder.
c.1. Add to that that the changes are most of the time not even tested on the board
because of (1). Look at the github issues/PRs and you will see it.
d. Developers usually stick to the lowest common denominator. Issue (2) sets this
denominator unacceptably low.
MIPS platform in general
========================
In commits I will address general issues in the MIPS platform and why it should all
be removed.
This is needed for those who do not know about searching the periph conf
It gives some hints on how to physically locate you board if connecting up sensors
Adding saml1[01]-xpro, nucleo-f302r8|f334r8 to
BOARDS_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY.
The riotboot build fails because it only offers half the flash size (per
slot), compared to before where the default build would not use riotboot
at all, thus have double the flash (but being useless).
FLASHFILE is now set to RIOTBOOT_EXTENDED_BIN, changing the meaning of
make all`, `flash`, `flash-only`.
This commits updates the documentation accordingly.
... if the riotboot feature is used.
Previously, even an application that had "FEATURES_REQUIRED += riotboot"
set would still flash the non-riotboot binary on "make flash".
This is usualy not what the user wants.
This commit set's the FLASHFILE variable to the combined "riotboot
bootloader + slot0 + empty slot1" binary. This has the effect that make
all, flash and flash-only will compile and/or flash a working riotboot
setup.
tests/riotboot and tests/riotboot_flashwrite now default to flashing the
riotboot-extended binary. tests/riotboot was previously configured to
use the riotboot-combined binary. This has been changed in order to not
behave differently than how usual riotboot applications do.
The internal Openthread config file is not needed for the contrib
files, since it only includes internal OpenThread configuration
(use by the Openthread build system). Under certain cases some
macros defined in Openthread collide with RIOT internals or vendor
headers. So it's important to keep dependencies consistent.
