Talking Tock 39

April 24th 2018 by Amit

This is the 39th 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

• (#857) Ensure userland stack starts 8-byte aligned
• (#878) Double initial process stack size from 64 to 128 bytes
• (#879) Perform moving the stack pointer in userspace last in _start
• (#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
• (#887) Add scb to Cortex-M3 crate
• (#890) cc26xx: remove unnecessary dependency to cortex-m4 crate
• (#891) cc26xx: correct the selection of LF clock source
• (#896) Use portable invocation of bash in shell scripts
• (#900) Avoid concurrent PeripheralManager instances
• (#901) Improve error messages for ip_sense app

Proposed

• (#894) Nrf52 UART Receive
• (#895) Critical fix to Hail clock wakeup and minor overhaul of alarm virtualization stack
• (#898) Nrf52/uart support longer messages than 255 characters