RIOT supports two distinct families of the MSP430: The [MSP430 x1xx]
MCU family and the [MSP430 F2xx/G2xx] MCU family. For both incompatible
MCU families the code was located in the msp430fxyz folder, resulting
in case of the UART driver in particularly bizarre code looking roughly
like this:
#ifndef UART_USE_USCI
/* implementation of x1xx peripheral ... */
#else
/* implementation of F2xx/G2xx peripheral ... */
#endif
/* zero shared code between both variants */
This splits the peripheral drivers for USCI and USART serial IP blocks
into separate files and relocates everything in cpu/msp430, similar to
how cpu/stm32 is organized.
[MSP430 x1xx]: https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/slau049f/slau049f.pdf
[MSP430 F2xx/G2xx]: https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/slau144k/slau144k.pdf
Replace direct accesses to sched_active_thread and sched_active_pid with
the helper functions thread_getpid() and thread_get_active(). This serves
two purposes:
1. It makes accidental writes to those variable from outside core less likely.
2. Casting off the volatile qualifier is now well contained to those two
functions
- Removed stdio_init() from newlib's _init(), as this is too late in the boot
process to allow DEBUG()ing during periph_init()
- Added stdio_init() to the various cpu_init() routines of the ARM CPUs just
before periph_init()
Replaces the special heap command approach of the lpc_common module with a more general heap command approach. Module lpc_common was already removed with PR #2118. PR #2118 integrated cpu/lpc_common code in cpu/lpc2387. With PR #3530 special heap handling for cpu/lpc2387 was replaced by newlib memory management which uses _sbrk_r to allocate chunks from the heap. _sbrk_r uses _sheap and _eheap symbols that are defined in lpc2387.ld and can be used together with mallinfo function for heap statistics.
Add small stubs for _times_r and _link_r so that code using times()
or link() can still compile. The functions are marked as not implemented
and return invalid codes.
