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.
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.
Using a mutex for critical section handling with portENTER_CRITICAL and portEXIT_CRITICAL does not work for RIOT, as this function can also be called in the interrupt context. Therefore, the given mutex is not used. Instead, the basic default FreeRTOS mechanism for critical sections is used by simply disabling interrupts. Since context switches for the ESP32 are also based on interrupts, there is no possibility that another thread will enter the critical section once the interrupts are disabled.
- stm32f7 use sectors instead of pages, they go either from 16KB to
128KB, or from 32KB to 25KB. Smaller sectors are at the begining of
the flash. Slots must start at the begining of a sector to not overlap.
- Minimum required RIOBOOT_HDR_LEN or stm32f7 is 0x200
to respect vector table alignment
- Add CPU_FLASH_BASE
- stm32f2 uses sectors instead of pages, they go from 16KB to
128KB. Smaller sectors are at the begining of the flash. Slots
must start at the begining of a sector to not overlap.
- Minimum required RIOBOOT_HDR_LEN or stm32f2 is 0x200
to respect vector table alignment
- Stm32f4 use sectors instead of pages. They go from 16 KB to 128KB.
The bootloader will use the first sector(16Kb). Slots must start
at the begining of a sector to not overlap.
- Minimum required RIOBOOT_HDR_LEN or stm32f4 is 0x200
to respect vector table alignment
