To control the log level and the format of the log output of SDK libraries, a bunch of library-specific printf functions are realized which map the log output from SDK libraries to RIOT's log macros.
The buffer[EHTHERNET_MAX_LEN] used in _esp_wifi_send to convert the iolist of the given packet to a plain buffer for the WiFi interface should not be on the stack to prevent the sending thread's stack from overflowing.
To avoid that murdock times out before tests/pkg_spiffs and tests/pkg_littlefs time out, the configured test timeouts for these tests is reduced to 200 seconds which should be enough. An ESP32 needs an average of 60 seconds for these tests, while an ESP8266 needs in average 100 seconds.
ESP32 nodes can crash during SPI Flash write operations if required parts of the code are not in the IRAM but in the cached SPI Flash memory, which is disabled during the SPI Flash write operations. Therefore, the code of the SPIFFS package and the VFS module are now stored in the IRAM.
To reduce the information that are printed at the console during the startup, special bootloaders are required that suppress the outputs which are only informational. The according bootloader has to be selected during the make process.
Startup information, including board configuration, is only printed when module esp_log_startup is used. This reduces the amount of information that is printed by default to the console during the startup. The user can enable module esp_log_startup to get the additional startup information.
The UART peripheral clock seems to be sporadically set to wrong value when the CPU clock is changed. In this case, the UART clock is not set to 115.200 kbps but to 96 kbps, so that the output in the console seems like garbage. This can also cause automatic tests to fail. Therefore, the CPU clock is only changed if CONFIG_ESP32_DEFAULT_CPU_FREQ_MHZ defines a different default CPU clock than the one already used at boot time.
If the user or the board definition doesn't enable `esp_wifi` or `esp_eth`, `esp_now` is defined as default netdev.
fixup! cpu/esp32: defines esp_now as default netdev
To be able to catch a core panic in debugger and to get the last output from asynchronous UART , e.g., if the stack is smashed, the system is not rebooted immediately anymore but breaks, which stops the execution in debugger or reboots the system after WDT timeout.
Log outputs generated by binary ESP32 SDK libraries are mapped to the ESP32's log module which supports colored and tagged log outpus. Tagged log outputs from SDK libraries are handled accordingly.
The implementation of `log_module` for ESP32 was changed from functions to a macro-based implementation to be able to use the bunch of macros for colored and tagget log output generation.
Renames crypto functions of ESP32 SDK in vendor code to resolve the conflicts between `wpa-supplicant` crypto functions and RIOT's `crypto` and `hashes` modules.
To resolve the conflicts between `wpa-supplicant` crypto functions (part of the ESP32 SDK) and RIOT's `crypto` and `hashes` modules, the crypto function headers from ESP32 SDK are added to vendor code and the crypto functions are renamed using the prefix `wpa_`.
A number of tests insist that the number of thread priority levels is 16. However, when using the WiFi interface, a number of high priority threads are required to handle the WiFi hardware. In this case, the number of thread priority levels must be 32. Solves the problem of tests `tests/shell`.
Removes the dependency of the module riot_freertos from module xtimer. This avoids that xtimer is used even if it is not really needed which in turn occupies the first timer device and tests/periph_timer fails.
ESP32 log output was always tagged with additional information by default. The tag consists the type of the log message, the system time in ms, and the module or function in which the log message is generated. By introducing module `esp_log_tagged`, these additional information are disabled by default and can be enabled by using module `esp_log_tagged`.
Log module of ESP32 supports colored log outputs when module `esp_log_color` is enabled. The generation of colored log outputs is realized by a extending the bunch of macros with an additional letter indicating the type of log message,
For the implementation of the colored log output, two versions of the bootloader are introduced, one version with colored log output and one version without colors.
If `SPI_CS_UNDEF` is given as the `cs` parameter, CS pin must not be handled by the driver. Furthermore, if `cont` parameter is true, CS pin must not be disabled at the end of one transfer.
The ADC2 controller of the ESP32 is used by the WiFi module. The GPIOs connected to the ADC2 controller cannot be used as ADC channels if the WiFi module is enabled. This is clarified by a note in the documentation.
Thin archives also cause a boot loop when using the flash module.
To prevent further surprises, disable thin archives unconditionally
until the cause for this behaviour is known.
For a yet unknown reason, both esp8266 and esp32 get stuck in a
reboot loop when thin archives are used.
As a workaround, disable thin archives for now if esp_wifi is used.
fixes#12258
* CPU files should already have 'CPU' defined by the board.
* Do not conditionally define CPU as it is not needed.
This is part of cleanup prior to moving the CPU/CPU_MODEL to
Makefile.features.
Instead of having a send buffer as member `esp_wifi` netdev, a local variable is used now as send buffer. This avoids the need for a locking mechanism and reduces the risk of deadlocks.
Receive call back function `_esp_wifi_rx_cb` is called from WiFi hardware driver with a pointer to a frame buffer that is allocated in the WiFi hardware driver. This frame buffer was freed immediately after copying its content to a single local receive buffer of the `esp_wifi` netdev. The local receive buffer remained occupied until the protocol stack had processed it. Further incoming packets were dropped. However, very often a number of subsequent WiFi frames are received at the same time before the first one is processed completely. Having the single local receive buffer to hold only one received frame, led to a number of lost packets, even at low network load. Therefore, a ringbuffer of rx_buf elements was introduced which doesn't store the frames directly but only references to the frame buffers allocated in WiFi hardware driver. Since there is enough memory to hold several frames, the frames buffers allocated in WiFi hardware driver aren't freed immediatly any longer but are kept until the frame is processed by the protocol stack. This results in a much less loss rate of packets.
