It is desireable to have a way to identify network devices.
This should be independent from the type of netdev, so a common identifier is needed.
Base this on the driver ID and the index in the configuration struct.
This way we achive unique IDs that stay consistent for any firmware flashed on a board.
The stm32_eth driver was build on top of the internal API periph_eth, which
was unused anywhere. (Additionally, with two obscure exceptions, no functions
where declared in headers, making them pretty hard to use anyway.)
The separation of the driver into two layers incurs overhead, but does not
result in cleaner structure or reuse of code. Thus, this artificial separation
was dropped.
The Ethernet DMA is capable of collecting a frame from multiple chunks, just
like the send function of the netdev interface passes. The send function was
rewritten to just set up the Ethernet DMA up to collect the outgoing frame
while sending. As a result, the send function blocks until the frame is
sent to keep control over the buffers.
This frees 6 KiB of RAM previously used for TX buffers.
If any incoming frame is bigger than a single DMA buffer, the Ethernet DMA will
split the content and use multiple DMA buffers instead. But only the DMA
descriptor of the last Ethernet frame segment will contain the frame length.
Previously, the frame length calculation, reassembly of the frame, and the
freeing of DMA descriptors was completely broken and only worked in case the
received frame was small enough to fit into one DMA buffer. This is now fixed,
so that smaller DMA buffers can safely be used now.
Additionally the interface was simplified: Previously two receive flavors were
implemented, with only one ever being used. None of those function was
public due to missing declarations in headers. The unused interface was
dropped and the remaining was streamlined to better fit the use case.
What happens with events that occured after `gpio_irq_disable()` is
currently not defined.
If they are not cleared, they will generate an interrupt on `gpio_irq_enable()`.
This does not seem like the intended behavior, so make the documentation more
explicit.
It doesn't compile, compiler complains that the enum type of
CC2420_GOTO_RX cannot be converted to netopt_state_t as required by the
function.
The numerical value of CC2420_GOTO_RX would be NETOPT_STATE_IDLE (2), which
makes sense as it puts the device into RX mode.
mock_rtt relies on setting mock values for RTT_MAX_VALUE and
RTT_FREQUENCY. Platforms with a rtt will already define these
values which leads to mock_rtt working with different values than
rtt_rtc.
This commit changes the ifdef logic so that when using mock_rtt
RTT_MAX_VALUE and RTT_FREQUENCY are redefined.
The Interrupt on the stmpe811 is generated on the falling edge.
By observing the rising edge, we will only get an event if the
interrupt gets cleared.
Also configure the interrupt to be edge triggered instead of
level triggered.
