Microchip offers ready-to-use modules with the mrf24j40 chip.
All but the MRF24J40MA integrate an external PA/LNA, they also come
with an RF shield.
If the PA/LNA is not enabled, the signal off these modules is really
poor.
This adds pseudomodules so that the PA/LNA is automatically enabled
when the appropriate module is used.
Do not remove the '-D' and '-U' values from CFLAGS.
This prevents issues where a '-D' could contain a space.
Some values way be duplicated from the 'riotbuild.h' header and the
command line but with the same value so without conflict.
To not put too many things in the command line, the -DMODULE_NAME are
only put in CFLAGS_WITH_MACROS.
Also, as now, the deferred value of CFLAGS is used for 'riotbuild.h',
macros set after the inclusion of `Makefile.include` will be taken into
account.
pic32prog is a program for flashing pic32 boards from command line on Linux.
It works with:
* Microchip PICkit2
* Microchip PICkit3 with script firmware.
* Other ones: https://github.com/sergev/pic32prog/wiki
Depending on the PROGRAMMER used, the file used for flashing may be
different, like openocd/jlink, so the file being generated when
compiling should be different.
Because of this, when building in docker, the build system needs to know
for which programmer you are building for.
This manifested for 'nordic_softdevice' applications when using 'openocd'
but is not limited to this case.
This adds a new target "archive-check".
Thin archives should be created with relative paths so that archives created
in a build container are useful in the host. This check ensures there are no
absolute paths inside thin archives.
Normal, or thick archives contain a copy of the object code. Thin
archives, on the contrary, are just an index to the .o files.
This patch does two things:
1. Change ARFLAGS to enable the "T" options.
2. Call AR with all relative paths.
The second step is necessary because the build system handles all
absolute paths. If the index in the thin archive contains absolute
paths, archives created in docker are no usable outside, and moving
the objects breaks the archive.
If all arguments to AR are relative, the resulting archive contains
filenames *relative to the .a file* and nothing should break as long
as the relative location of the .a and .o remains unchanged.
Compilation time is unchanged, but disc usage is reduced by approximately
50%. These are the result of a full RIOT build:
| Thin Archive | no | yes | Savings (%) |
| -------------- | ------: | ----: | ----------- |
| pkg (10e6 KiB) | 1 790 | 905 | 49% |
| Non pkg | 71 | 71 | 1% |
| Total | 1 812 | 976 | 46 % |
The default channel configuration is managed within the Makefiles of many
examples and tests. This commit moves the default channel logic to
`makefiles/default-channel.ink.mk` to ease maintenance. All Makefiles that
previously managed the default channel configuration themself have been
updated to include that file.
The default channel configuration of the cc110x has been added
Use the -gz option to compress ELF sections containing DWARF information.
This saves around 50% of disk space, without any side effects.
See https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-9.2.0/gcc/Debugging-Options.html#Debugging-Options
for more infomation on this option.
Some platforms have an outdated toolchain that does not support -gz so
the flag is blacklisted there. Even then, the results are quite impressive.
I used @cladmi's `buildtest` branch (https://github.com/cladmi/RIOT/tree/wip/du/buildtest)
with this change and compiled the `examples/default` application:
```
$ BUILD_IN_DOCKER=1 DOCKER="sudo docker" make -C examples/default buildtest-indocker
```
The size was obtained with:
```
$ find output -name "*.bin.bindirsize" -type f -exec tail -n1 '{}' \; | cut -f 1 | awk '{s+=$1} END {printf "%.0f", s}'
```
Results:
- Vanilla: 10328112 KB (~10GB).
- with -gz: 4982788 KB (~5GB).
This was inspired by #8496.
The current code for detecting whether colors should be used by default
was not working. Normally what programs such as git or grep do is check
if they are writing to a pipe.
To see the issue by yourself:
$ BOARD=samr21-xpro make -C tests/periph_qdec > I_SHOULD_NOT_HAVE_COLORS 2>&1
This commit uses MAKE_TERMOUT, MAKE_TERMERR and if ANY of them is NOT
a terminal, colors are disabled.
Update the optional flags to use 'OPTIONAL_CFLAGS' instead of evaluating
everytime.
They are now blacklisted by architecture/toolchain according to the
current docker reference image.
Handle declaring OPTIONAL_CFLAGS and blacklisting them with
OPTIONAL_CFLAGS_BLACKLIST.
This should replace checking everytime if options are supported.
Add make only function to convert strings to lowercase and uppercase.
This can replace the `$(shell echo $(var) | tr 'a-z-' 'A-Z_')` pattern.
Using the 'make' implementation results in being around 100 times faster.
CFLAGS_CPU is required for 'pkg/openthread'. So declare it as a global
compilation variable.
The goal is to move the export to `makefiles/vars.inc.mk` and remove the
local exports that could be in boards/cpu/arch.
