To make the migration progress to the new RTOS SDK easier, the new toolchain was renamed to xtensa-esp8266-elf. This makes it possible to have the new and the old toolchain installed in parallel.
If the WiFi module is used, a number of high priority tasks is created. To void priority collisions with netdev drivers, the number of priorities SCHED_PRIO_LEVELS has to be increased to 32. But in other cases, the default number should be used, also to keep automatic tests working.
This reverts commit 422644bd3a.
The option is only supported after 2.6 which is currently not the
version given with 'esp' toolchain.
It was a bit too early to switch to the new version.
Version 2.7 also supports the old option with only a warning.
Using flash size in megabits is deprecated by esptool.
Use the new megabyte notation.
WARNING: Flash size arguments in megabits like '8m' are deprecated.
Please use the equivalent size '1MB'.
Megabit arguments may be removed in a future release.
esptool.py v2.6
UART FIFO must contain only 1 byte when newlib's `printf` function is used. Otherwise, outputs that are still not sent over UART are lost when `printf` is called asynchronousely.
To avoid unresolved symbols for unused functions during linking, compiler option `-ffunction-sections` is used now. Linker option `--warn-unresolved-symbols` is removed to get errors if required symbols cannot be resolved.
The modules `newlib, `newlib_syscalls_default` and `stdio_uart` are now used by default for output to the UART interface. This also reduces the dependency rules.
The overridden stdio functions `puts`, `putchar` and `printf` were removed. Instead, the corresponding newlib functions are always used. Using the newlib functions fixes output conflicts when using `f *` functions like `fprintf`,` fputs`, ... with `stdout` as the file parameter.
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Some platforms have an outdated toolchain that does not support -gz so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.
In the `pwm_set` function, the switch-on and switch-off times for PWM channels were only determined for the following phase, but not for the current phase. This could result in a missing duty cycle when calling the function `pwm_set` if the switch-on time of the current phase was not yet reached or to an extended duty cycle if the switch-off time of the current phase had not yet been reached.
Rational: the periph_common module is required by (most) other periph drivers
and also during startup of the CPU/MCU to run periph_init. The latter is only
required if other periph drivers are used, hence periph_common should be a
depency of periph_* modules and *not* of the CPU/MCU. This PR fixes that
by making periph_common a depency of periph_* and removing the explicit
include in the CPU/MCU implementation.
PREFLASHER/PREFFLAGS/FLASHDEPS are evaluated by the main Makefile.include.
Their value does not need to be exported.
Testing
-------
`git diff --word-diff` only reports `export` being removed.
`git show --stat` reports `16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)`
Which is the same amount as lines that where matching
`export[[:blank::]]\+VARIABLE` plus the newline that is said to have
changed.
FLASHER and FFLAGS are evaluated by the main Makefile.include or by file
included by it. Their value does not need to be exported.
This will also prevent evaluating 'PORT' for FFLAGS when not needed.
Testing
-------
`git diff --word-diff` only reports `export` being removed.
`git show --stat` reports `84 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)`
Which is the same amount as lines that where matching
`export[[:blank::]]\+VARIABLE`.
`top_of_stack` isn't aligned down to the previous 16 byte aligned address. Furthermore, `top_of_stack` as well as `XT_CP_SIZE` are used unaligned in `cpu/esp_common/vendor/xtensa/portasm.S` in the address computation for the coprocessor save area, .
Aligning pointer `p` down to the previous 16 byte aligned address results in a wrong address of the coprocessor save area during the initialization of the thread context. This leads to wrong values and wrong positions of these values in the coprocessor save area in inital thread context.
Since ESP8266 doesn't have a coprocessor, this bug affects only ESP32.
Calling the initialization function ensures that the dummy lwIP library is used instead of the real lwIP, even if the esp_wifi module for esp8266 is not used.
The documentation had to be changed due to the relation of module `esp_now` to `esp_wifi` module. In addition, a number of corrections have been made. In the case of documentation, it is impossible to do this in various commits.
Usually, all .rodata sections are placed in RAM by the Espressif SDK since IROM (flash) access requires 32-bit word aligned reads. thanks to the LoadStoreError exception handler from esp-open-rtos which is used now in RIOT-OS, it is also possible to place .rodata sections in IROM (flash) to save RAM resources.
Usually, the access to the IROM (flash) memory requires 32-bit word aligned reads. Attempts to access data in the IROM (flash) memory less than 32 bits in size triggers a LoadStoreError exception. With the exception handler from esp-open-rtos it becomes possible to access data in IROM (flash) with a size of less than 32 bits and thus to place .rodata sections in the IROM (flash).
Checking by the send function that at least two maximum size Ethernet frames fit in the remaining heap before the LwIP packet buffer is allocated seems to increase stability. This can be caused by the fact that WLAN hardware interrupts allocate additional memory when receiving a frame during the send attempt.
The situation where the firmware `lwIP` packet buffer is exhausted is an important indication that the traffic sent to and sent from the esp8266 is more than the esp8266 is able to handle. Therefore, it should be an error message.
It is not necessary to realize timeout handling in send function or to disconnect from AP if lwIP packet buffer is exhausted. Waiting that the frame allocated in lwIP packet buffer is freed by MAC layer led to the complete blockage of send function on heavy network load. Disconnecting from AP is counterproductive since reconnecting usually fails on heavy network load.
Disconnecting from the AP in the send function if the lwIP packet buffer is exhausted is counterproductive since reconnecting usually fails on heavy network load. A better strategy is to slow down the sending of MAC frames from netif a bit to wait for flushing the buffer in the MAC layer.
Defines a number of lwIP functions that are required as symbols by Espressif's SDK libraries. These functions are only dummies without real functionality. Using these functions instead of real lwIP functions provided with the SDK saves arround 4 kBytes of RAM.
Since _esp_wifi_recv_cb is not executed in interrupt context but in the context of the `ets` thread, it is not necessary to pass the`NETDEV_EVENT_ISR` event first. Instead, the receive function can be called directly which result in much faster handling, a less frame lost rate and more robustness.
Since _esp_wifi_recv_cb is not executed in interrupt context but in the context of the `ets` thread, the receive function can be called directly. There is no need for a mutex anymore to synchronize the access to the receive buffer between _esp_wifi_recv_cb and _recv function.
When the size of a received frame is checked, always the total length should be used instead of the length of the first lwIP pbuf in the pbuf chain. Otherwise, the check that the length does not exceed ETHERNET_MAX_LEN will always be true since the maximum size of one lwIP pbuf in a pbuf chain is 512 bytes.
Although only the station interface is needed, the WiFi interface has to be used in SoftAP + Station mode. Otherwise the send function blocks sporadically. Since the SoftAP interface is not used, it is configured with a hidden SSID and a long beacon interval. Connections from other stations are not allowed.
Some SDK interrupt service routines obviously use malloc/free in the interrupt context. Because the rmutex-based lock/unlock approach of the malloc/free function suite of the newlib does not work in the interrupt context, the SDK memory management functions MUST therefore be used. To use the same memory management functions in RIOT as in the SDK, the malloc/free function suite has to be replaced by wrapper functions.
Fixes sporadic blocking of the wifi thread in esp_wifi_recv_cb function under heavy network load conditions when frames are coming in faster than they can be processed. Since esp_wifi_recv_cb function is not executed in interrupt context, the msg_send function used for ISR event can block when the message queue is full. With this change esp_wifi can be flooded with icmpv6 packets of maximum size without any problems over hours.
During flash write access, the IROM cache cannot be used and is disabled therefore. During that time, ets_post crashes if a functions is called which is not in IRAM. Therefore thread_flags_set must not be called if IROM cache is disabled.
