Talking Tock 47

June 26th 2018 by Amit

This is the 47th 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

• (#984) Move register interface to it’s own crate
• (#987) Move userland to libtock-c repo
• (#991) Remove volatile_reads from ring buffer
• (#991) Remove volatile_reads from ring buffer
• (#992) Document process isolation and memory protection
• (#993) Use LLVM’s LLD to link the kernel
• (#996) Port Cortex-M to StaticRef
• (#1001) Add a note that nRF51 is no longer recommended
• (#1015) Capsules Remove old commented out code
• (#1019) regs/macro.rs: add optional conversion from value into bit field enum member
• (#1021) Fix broken link
• (#1023) docs: document the usage of an RTT-backed console.
• (#1028) Capsules quick fixes
• (#1029) Remove asm from kernel
• (#1030) tools: fix build-all-docs script

Proposed

• (#1009) Move userland docs to libtock-c
• (#1010) Add function that enables FPU for cortex-m4 MCUs
• (#1011) arch: scb register map fix
• (#1012) Components
• (#1014) kernel: move cells to their own crate
• (#1016) nrf51: use staticref
• (#1017) ek: convert to staticref
• (#1018) cc26xx: use staticref
• (#1020) Courses: Remove from repo and specify commit to view them
• (#1024) Use several nice newish Rust features
• (#1025) adc: remove initialize() from HIL
• (#1026) Ensure symbols reach the linker with #[used]
• (#1027) Remove unused feature declarations
• (#1031) Use LLVM tools