The 'msba2' common files have accumulated many empty files are files that
do nothing.
This makes reasoning about the boards needlessly difficult.
Trim down on `common/msba2/` so that it now only contains the setup for the
UART/bootloader based flashing.
This should eventuelly be moved to `makefiles/tools/`
Introduce and use a common/msba2/Makefile.features.
The boards were already using the common `Makefile.include` and
`Makefile.dep`.
This makes 'include $(RIOTCPU)/lpc2387/Makefile.features' be done in
the same module where 'CPU' is defined.
Preparation for moving 'CPU' definition to Makefile.features.
The file always exist so no need to do '-include'.
Replaced using:
sed -i 's|-\(include $(RIOTCPU)/.*/Makefile.features\)|\1|' \
$(git grep -l '$(RIOTCPU)/.*/Makefile.features' boards)
This change allows drivers (or any module for that matter) to provide
features. This is e.g. useful if a board does not have a transceiver,
but your application uses `USEMODULE += some_driver`, which implements
the transceiver interface.
The line `FEATURES_PROVIDED += some_feature` should go to the guarded
block in `{sys,drivers}/Makefile.include`.
Please see #1715.
Closes#1715.
This PR implements the new Makefile variables "FEATURES_PROVIDED" and
"FEATURES_REQUIRED". A board *can* have a new file `Makefile.features`
which looks like:
```make
FEATURES_PROVIDED = transceiver
```
An application can have a corresponding line
```make
FEATURES_REQUIRED = transceiver
```
If the selected BOARD does not fulfil the requirements of the
application, then a *warning* is issued at compile time.
This change only includes the feature "transceiver", further features
are expected to be listed in further PRs. The requirement "transceiver"
is automatically added if the application uses the module
"defaulttransceiver".
`make buildtest` understands the new feature listing, so the user won't
need to add boards to `BOARD_BLACKLIST` manually.
Part of the change are the added Make targets
* `info-features-missing`, which prints the required features
`\setminus` the provided features. The output is empty if there are no
features missing.
* `info-boards-features-missing`, the same as `info-features-missing`
but as a table for all boards, but heeded `BOARD_WHITELIST` and
`BOARD_BLACKLIST`.
Applications don't have to use this new feature. This change does not
break existing Makefile.
