The same tool 'gen_esp32part.py' is used for the generation of partition tables on ESP8266 as well as n ESP32. The tool is therefore added to 'dist/tools/esptool'
It is possible to use different timers as RTC timer for the periph_rtc module. Either the 48-bit RTC hardware timer is used directly or the PLL driven 64-bit system timer emulates a RTC timer. The latter one is much more accurate. Pseudomodule esp_rtc_timer controlls which timer is used. Only if esp_rtc_timer is enabled explicitly, the 48-bit RTC hardware timer is used. Otherwise the 64-bit sytstem timer is used to emulate the RTC timer.
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.
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.
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.
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
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`.
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.
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.
* 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.
Use the -gz option to compress ELF sections containing DWARF information.
This saves around 50% of disk space, without any side effects.
See https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-9.2.0/gcc/Debugging-Options.html#Debugging-Options
for more infomation on this option.
Some platforms have an outdated toolchain that does not support -gz so
the flag is blacklisted there. Even then, the results are quite impressive.
I used @cladmi's `buildtest` branch (https://github.com/cladmi/RIOT/tree/wip/du/buildtest)
with this change and compiled the `examples/default` application:
```
$ BUILD_IN_DOCKER=1 DOCKER="sudo docker" make -C examples/default buildtest-indocker
```
The size was obtained with:
```
$ find output -name "*.bin.bindirsize" -type f -exec tail -n1 '{}' \; | cut -f 1 | awk '{s+=$1} END {printf "%.0f", s}'
```
Results:
- Vanilla: 10328112 KB (~10GB).
- with -gz: 4982788 KB (~5GB).
This was inspired by #8496.
