With the increase of the message queue size from 8 to 16 in
946b06e4f0, the default stack became too small.
This changes the stack size to grow with the message queue size.
The cc110x driver has been re-written from scratch to overcome the limitations
of the old driver. The main motivation of the rewrite was to achieve better
maintainability by a detailed documentation, reduce the complexity and the
overhead of the SPI communication with the device, and to allow to
simultaneously use transceivers with different configuration regarding the used
base band, the channel bandwidth, the modulation rate, and the channel map.
Features of this driver include:
- Support for the CC1100, CC1101, and the CC1100e sub-gigahertz transceivers.
- Detailed documentation of every aspect of this driver.
- An easy to use configuration API that allows setting the transceiver
configuration (modulation rate, channel bandwidth, base frequency) and the
channel map.
- Fast channel hopping by pre-calibration of the channels during device
configuration (so that no calibration is needed during hopping).
- Simplified SPI communication: Only during start-up the MCU has to wait
for the transceiver to be ready (for the power regulators and the crystal
to stabilize). The old driver did this for every SPI transfer, which
resulted in complex communication code. This driver will wait on start up
for the transceiver to power up and then use RIOT's SPI API like every other
driver. (Not only the data sheet states that this is fine, it also proved to
be reliable in practise.)
- Greatly reduced latency: The RTT on the old driver (@150 kbps data rate) was
about 16ms, the new driver (@250 kbps data rate) has as RTT of ~3ms
(depending on SPI clock and on CPU performance) (measured with ping6).
- Increased reliability: The preamble size and the sync word size have been
doubled compared to the old driver (preamble: 8 bytes instead of 4,
sync word: 4 byte instead of 2). The new values are the once recommended by
the data sheet for reliable communication.
- Basic diagnostic during driver initialization to detect common issues as
SPI communication issues and GDO pin configuration/wiring issues.
- TX power configuration with netdev_driver_t::set() API-integration
- Calls to netdev_driver_t::send() block until the transmission has completed
to ease the use of the API (implemented without busy waiting, so that the
MCU can enter lower power states or other threads can be executed).
- Removed cc110x driver
- Updated all makefiles
- Kept both board specific configurations and support for it in RIOT's
upper layers, so re-implementations don't need to start from zero
printf and puts used ets_printf before. Unfortunately, ets_printf adds an additional \r for each \n which is not consistent with other RIOT platforms. As a result some automatic tests failed. Therefore, both functions write now character-wise directly to the UART interface.
Python dictionaries are not guaranteed to be ordered until version
3.7. In 3.6 they are ordered too, but that is an implementation
detail. riotdocker seems to be using 3.5.
As it stands now, it would not be a problem if the test commands
are run in a random order, except that:
- It would result in non-reproduceable tests.
- It hinders testing other functionality, such as exiting the shell.
CTRL-C cancels the current line, similar to how getty works.
This is useful if one is using a dumb terminal to communicate with
a node, as it saves having to repeatedly type backspace to discard the
current line. It also helps when connecting to an already running node,
as one does not know what is on the line buffer, the safest thing to do
is to begin by sending a ctrl-C.
This is a suggestion of @benemorius.
For test scripts, a terminal that does not modify the input and output
streams, configured without local echo, is preferred as it ensures the
test setup is introducing as little noise as possible.
Use test_utils_interactive_sync for synchronizing some case treat
the output before `reset` as the start of the test,
which fails for some boards/configurations.
Add an implementation that waits for 's' to print 'START' and return.
If 'r' is given is prints 'READY' to allow querying for state.
The help and answered string have to be different to not match the other.
Using puts/getchar was smaller than using `stdio_read/stdio_write` on the
example I tested with `esp32`.
This remove executing buildtest `for` loop in docker.
When building completely in docker, 'buildtest' would hide issues when
the host toolchain would be used when doing `make all` directly.
It has the consequence that it now starts a container for each
compilation which is slower.
The previous behavior can be reproduced by using
BUILD_IN_DOCKER=1 make buildtest-indocker
A side effect is also that now `BUILDTEST_MAKE_REDIRECT` would work when
doing `buildtest` with docker.
Add a 'buildtest-indocker' that forces executing 'buildtest' for loop
completely inside the container.
It prevents starting one container per compilation wich is slower but
it could hide errors where the host toolchain would be used
It is currently equivalent to `buildtest` but will change when the
`buidtest` handling will be move outside of `BUILD_IN_DOCKER`.
Display an error when executed without BUILD_IN_DOCKER=1.
Memory management function like `malloc`, `calloc`, `realloc` and `free` must not be preempted when they operate on allocator structures. To avoid such a preemption, wrappers around these functions are used which simply disable all interrupts for the time of their execution.
When running tests using 'nordic_softdevice_ble', the 'softdevice.hex'
file must also be taken into account for the test hashing and be
uploaded to the separated murdock testing boards.
When listed as dependency from `test-input-hash` the file must have a
target, which he has not. The file is implicitly created when compiling
`ELFFILE` so declare it as order only dependency.
In practice `BASELIBS` could be enough or even `pkg-build-softdevice`
but I do not want to be depend that much on internals there.
if xtimer_set spins the callback is executed in the thread context.
comment to explain irq_disable
and when this line could be removed
(when xtimer stops executing the callback funtion from thread context)
