Talking Tock 38

April 17th 2018 by Amit

This is the 38th post in a series tracking the development of Tock, a safe multi-tasking operating system for microcontrollers.

1. Pull Requests
   1. Merged
   2. Proposed

Pull Requests

Bolded pull requests were marked “P-Significant”

Merged

• (#829) Allow direct use of FieldValue mask
• (#836) nRF52: convert register matches to is_set
• (#841) Fix typo in format_all.sh
• (#839) Port nRF5x AES to new register interface
• (#842) Port nRF5x RNG to new register interface
• (#843) Disable lps25hb interrup after use
• (#846) Update getting started
• (#845) Fix usart sleep in panic on SAM4L
• (#849) Add hail scripts for jlink + gdb debugging
• (#848) sam4l: convert usart panic state to atomic
• (#853) Add check for correct usage of override
• (#840) Port NRF5x temperature driver to new register interface
• (#844) Port SAM4L watchdog timer to new register interface
• (#813) Port nRF52 radio to new register interface
• (#858) Port nRF52 UICR2 to new register interface
• (#865) Enable debug_gpio macro on nRF5x
• (#861) Add support for NVMC in nRF52
• (#862) Use feature gates to differentiate between nRF51/2
• (#863) Unify naming in cortex-m4 architecture crate
• (#830) Support for UART on launchxl
• (#850) Move kernel stack to bottom of SRAM
• (#852) Example app that communicates over BLE with WitEnergy power meter
• (#870) Remove unnecessary unwrap in grant module
• (#867) Fix and supress overflow warnings in nRF5x-FICR
• (#854) Enforce userland STACK_SIZE at compile-time
• (#822) Always set process RAM to at least a minimum length
• (#880) Remove skips in rustfmt
• (#872) Fix off-by-one BLE scanning bug
• (#869) Improve error handling for SAM4L flash driver

Proposed

• (#837) Support for SAM4L analog comparator
• (#838) Bluetooth Low Energy design document
• (#851) Add receive callback to console system call driver
• (#855) Construct BLE advertisement data in userspace
• (#857) Ensure userland stack starts 8-byte aligned
• (#859) Word-align section binaries in userspace
• (#871) Rewrite elf2tbf into elf2tab (and get rid of separate TAB generation)
• (#873) Simplify BLE capsule
• (#877) Add svd2regs tool to generate registers from SVD files
• (#878) Double initial process stack size from 64 to 128 bytes
• (#879) Perform moving the stack pointer in userspace last in _start
• (#881) Update to Rust nightly 2018-04-02
• (#882) Fine tune kernel linker script to error if relocation is too large
• (#883) Simplify make doc
• (#884) Build the SenSys course board in Travis
• (#885) Make sleep a method of the chip trait so it can be chip-specific
• (#886) Charge the process for its Process struct in the kernel
• (#887) Add scb to Cortex-M3 crate
• (#888) Bulk USB transfers for SAM4L