The stm32_eth driver was build on top of the internal API periph_eth, which
was unused anywhere. (Additionally, with two obscure exceptions, no functions
where declared in headers, making them pretty hard to use anyway.)
The separation of the driver into two layers incurs overhead, but does not
result in cleaner structure or reuse of code. Thus, this artificial separation
was dropped.
The Ethernet DMA is capable of collecting a frame from multiple chunks, just
like the send function of the netdev interface passes. The send function was
rewritten to just set up the Ethernet DMA up to collect the outgoing frame
while sending. As a result, the send function blocks until the frame is
sent to keep control over the buffers.
This frees 6 KiB of RAM previously used for TX buffers.
1. Move buffer configuration from boards to cpu/stm32
2. Allow overwriting buffer configuration
- If the default configuration ever needs touching, this will be due to a
use case and should be done by the application rather than the board
3. Reduce default RX buffer size
- Now that handling of frames split up into multiple DMA descriptors works,
we can make use of this
Note: With the significantly smaller RX buffers the driver will now perform
much worse when receiving data at maximum throughput. But as long as frames
are small (which is to be expected for IoT or boarder gateway scenarios) the
performance should not be affected.
If any incoming frame is bigger than a single DMA buffer, the Ethernet DMA will
split the content and use multiple DMA buffers instead. But only the DMA
descriptor of the last Ethernet frame segment will contain the frame length.
Previously, the frame length calculation, reassembly of the frame, and the
freeing of DMA descriptors was completely broken and only worked in case the
received frame was small enough to fit into one DMA buffer. This is now fixed,
so that smaller DMA buffers can safely be used now.
Additionally the interface was simplified: Previously two receive flavors were
implemented, with only one ever being used. None of those function was
public due to missing declarations in headers. The unused interface was
dropped and the remaining was streamlined to better fit the use case.
The interval load value was only set to 0xffff regardless of the counter
mode used which mad the 32bit timer apparently stop after 0xffff (it
would never reach values >0xffff).
When a GPTM is configured to one of the 32-bit modes, TAILR appears as a
32-bit register (the upper 16-bits correspond to the contents of the
GPTM Timer B Interval Load (TBILR) register). In a 16-bit mode, the
upper 16 bits of this register read as 0s and have no effect on the
state of TBILR.
Thsi commit set the correct value for TAILR depending on the configured
timer mode.
Seems like the Interrupt flag for a Capture/Compare channel gets set when
- the CC-value is reached
- the timer resets before the CC value is reached.
We only want the first event and ignore the second one. Unfortunately I did
not find a way to disable the second event type, so it is filtered in software.
That is we need to
- ignore the CC-interrupts when the COUNT register register is reset
- ignore the CC-interrupts > TOP value/ARR (auto-reload register)
> A bit-band region maps each word in a bit-band alias region to a single bit in the bit-band region.
> The bit-band regions occupy the lowest 1 MB of the SRAM and peripheral memory regions. A
https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/405/lm4f120h5qr-124014.pdf
> Bit-banding is supported in order to reduce the execution time for
> read-modify-write (RMW) operations to memory.
> With bit-banding, certain regions in the memory map
> (SRAM and peripheral space) can use address aliases to access
> individual bits in one atomic operation.
https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/swcu117i/swcu117i.pdf
> Bit-banding is supported in order to reduce the execution time for
> read-modify-write (RMW) operations to memory.
> With bit-banding, certain regions in the memory map
> (SRAM and peripheral space) can use address aliases to access
> individual bits in one atomic operation.
https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/swcu185d/swcu185d.pdf
