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Some platforms have an outdated toolchain that does not support -gz so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.
_exti() always assumes only 2 ports, so it will always fail when using
e.g. port C or port D on same54.
Instead, determine the number of ports from the dimensions of the exti_config
array.
As the comment above cpu_switch_context_exit notes:
sched_active_thread is not valid when cpu_switch_context_exit() is called.
Unfortunately, thread_yield(), which is called directly by
cpu_switch_context_exit(), uses sched_active_thread possibly resulting
in a null pointer dereference.
Solution: Trigger a software interrupt to perform a context switch and
let sched_run() determine the next valid thread from there.
once hardware flow control is enabled, rts should only be initialized
after the uart is enabled by setting the UE flag. This is stated in the
stm32f4 errata.
in uart_poweroff the peripheral should be disabled through the register
instead of just disabling the peripheral clock. In uart_poweron the
peripheral should be enabled after enabling the clock.
Not explicitely disabling the peripheral causes some bad signals on the
uart line sometimes.
Module `newlib` is now used by default. Therefore, the separation of initialization of ctors and the newlibc is not needed any longer. Instead of calling `do_global_ctors` and `_init` separately, `__libc_init_array` is called. Explicit function `do_global_ctors` is removed.
While deleting multiple sectors in flash, interrupts were disabled over the whole time. Thus, deleting the entire flash led to the triggering of the watchdog timer and thus to a restart. Therefore, the interrupts and the cache are disabled only for the time of deleting a single sector. The same problem occurred for read and write large data sets.
Initializing the stdio file descriptors in global reent structure with newlib fake stdio file descriptors led to the problem that newlib stdio functions printf and puts were not working since they can't operate on these fake stdio file descriptors. Therefore, this initialization was removed. Now, the real stdio file descriptors as created automatically by newlib are used. Specific functions `printf`, `puts`, `getchar`and `putchar` are not required any longer and are removed now.
Modules newlib and newlib_syscalls_default are now used by default. Conditional compilations for MODULE_NEWLIB_SYSCALLS_DEFAULT as well as alternative code are removed completely.
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.
