This can be very useful for some purposes:
* It makes it possible to disable the UART in cases where it is not
needed or needs to be disabled to conserve power.
* It makes it possible to disable the serial output to reduce code
size, which may be important for some chips. Sometimes, a few kB can
be saved this way.
* It makes it possible to override the default, for example you might
want to use an actual UART to debug the USB-CDC implementation.
It also lowers the dependency on having machine.Serial defined, which is
often not defined when targeting a chip. Eventually, we might want to
make it possible to write `-target=nrf52` or `-target=atmega328p` for
example to target the chip itself with no board specific assumptions.
The defaults don't change. I checked this by running `make smoketest`
before and after and comparing the results.
This commit implements various process related functions like
os.Getuid() and os.Getpid(). It also implements or improves this support
in the syscall package if it isn't available yet.
The wasm build tag together with GOARCH=arm was causing problems in the
internal/cpu package. In general, I think having two architecture build
tag will only cause problems (in this case, wasm and arm) so I've
removed the wasm build tag and replaced it with tinygo.wasm.
This is similar to the tinygo.riscv build tag, which is used for older
Go versions that don't yet have RISC-V support in the standard library
(and therefore pretend to be GOARCH=arm instead).
This package provides access to an operating system resource
(cryptographic numbers) and so needs to be replaced with a TinyGo
version that does this in a different way.
I've made the following choices while adding this feature:
- I'm using the getentropy call whenever possible (most POSIX like
systems), because it is easier to use and more reliable. Linux is
the exception: it only added getentropy relatively recently.
- I've left bare-metal implementations to a future patch. This because
it's hard to reliably get cryptographically secure random numbers on
embedded devices: most devices do not have a hardware PRNG for this
purpose.
This only works with a custom bossac build from Arduino, not with the
upstream version. It avoids needing the manual "double tap" to enter
bootloader mode before flashing firmware.
Int in Go and C are two different types (hence why CGo has C.int). The
code in syscall assumed they were of the same type, which led to a bug:
https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/issues/1957
While the C standard makes no guarantees on the size of int, in most
modern operating systems it is 32-bits so Go int32 would be the correct
choice.
Other chips support explicit control of pull-up vs pull-down for GPIO input. Support that with bluepill also. PinInputPullUpDown is maintained for back-compat. It is implicit pull-down.
Because arm.SVCall1 lets pointers escape, the return value of
sd_softdevice_is_enabled (passed as a pointer in a parameter) will
escape and thus this value will be heap allocated.
Use a global variable for this purpose instead to avoid the heap
allocation. This is safe as waitForEvent may only be called outside of
interrupts.
These variants uses an unsafe.Pointer instead of uintptr so that the
pointer/non-pointer fields match those of real slices and strings. This
may be necessary in the future once we switch to a precise garbage
collector.
Previously, the machine.UART0 object had two meanings:
- it was the first UART on the chip
- it was the default output for println
These two meanings conflict, and resulted in workarounds like:
- Defining UART0 to refer to the USB-CDC interface (atsamd21,
atsamd51, nrf52840), even though that clearly isn't an UART.
- Defining NRF_UART0 to avoid a conflict with UART0 (which was
redefined as a USB-CDC interface).
- Defining aliases like UART0 = UART1, which refer to the same
hardware peripheral (stm32).
This commit changes this to use a new machine.Serial object for the
default serial port. It might refer to the first or second UART
depending on the board, or even to the USB-CDC interface. Also, UART0
now really refers to the first UART on the chip, no longer to a USB-CDC
interface.
The changes in the runtime package are all just search+replace. The
changes in the machine package are a mixture of search+replace and
manual modifications.
This commit does not affect binary size, in fact it doesn't affect the
resulting binary at all.
This means that machine.UART0, machine.UART1, etc are of type
*machine.UART, not machine.UART. This makes them easier to pass around
and avoids surprises when they are passed around by value while they
should be passed around by reference.
There is a small code size impact in some cases, but it is relatively
minor.
Make the USBCDC use a pointer receiver everywhere. This makes it easier
to pass around the object in the future.
This commit sometimes changes code size, but not significantly (a few
bytes) and usually in a positive way.
My eventual goal is the following:
- Declare `machine.USB` (or similar, name TBD) as a pointer receiver
for the USB-CDC interface.
- Let `machine.UART0` always point to an UART, never actually to a
USBCDC object.
- Define `machine.Serial`, which is either a real UART or an USB-CDC,
depending on the board.
This way, if you want a real UART you can use machine.UARTx and if you
just want to print to the default serial port, you can use
machine.Serial.
This change does have an effect on code size and memory consumption.
There is often a small reduction (-8 bytes) in RAM consumption and an
increase in flash consumption.
Make the GC globals scan phase conservative instead of precise on
WebAssembly. This reduces code size at the risk of introducing some
false positives.
This is a stopgap measure to mitigate an issue with the precise scanning
of globals that doesn't track all pointers. It works for regular globals
but globals created in the interp package don't always have a type and
therefore may be missed by the AddGlobalsBitmap pass.
The same issue is present on Linux and macOS, but is not as noticeable
there.
