Talking Tock 50

July 23rd 2018 by Amit

This is the 50th 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

• (#1130) docs: Collection of small updates
• (#1128) Kernel doctests
• (#1046) Refactor debug.rs to not be implemented as a kernel process
• (#1127) Launchxl Alarm Bug: Fix issue of board main.rs calling wrong rtc
• (#1119) Adds RTC, AON, PRCM driver to CC26x2
• (#1045) capsules: add virtual_uart
• (#1124) libraries: match example values in documentation
• (#1122) capsules: add reset function to nrf serialization
• (#838) Starting the Bluetooth Low Energy design doc
• (#1120) kernel: debug: fix print
• (#1073) uart: remove initialize from the UART HIL
• (#1117) doc: clean up the README a bit
• (#1068) Add bors integration for merging PRs
• (#1012) Components
• (#1108) Instructions for flashing processes on launchxl
• (#1114) Fix in_exposed_bounds security vulnerability
• (#1106) Updates to tock-registers for publishing
• (#1004) mcp230xx: support more versions of the chip
• (#1098) Replace trivial implementations of Default with (gh#)
• (#1105) refactor: s/regs/registers
• (#1059) Optional cell cc26xx
• (#1109) kernel: remove the need for &mut Process
• (#1032) Specify units for ADC HIL
• (#1110) Small grammar fixes
• (#1102) Use OpenOCD for Launchxl build and sanitize
• (#1089) Make most of kernel crate-visible only, rather than public.
• (#1062) Optional cell nrf52
• (#1060) Optional cell tm4c129x
• (#1097) Assign proper gpio pins to nRF52-DK

Proposed

• (#1129) Fix virtual_uart receive semantics
• (#1126) New MPU Interface
• (#1125) nrf51: update radio to new register interface
• (#1123) nrf51: update clock to new register interface
• (#1121) Kernel: comments and mut removal
• (#1115) Move architecture-dependent debugging print code to arch/cortex-m
• (#1113) Move architecture-dependent syscall code to arch/cortex-m
• (#1111) Kernel: Move PROCS array to Kernel struct
• (#1107) [WIP] UART + SPI HIL generic lifetimes
• (#1104) capsules: add buzzer driver
• (#1103) capsules: add virtual_pwm