It is always implemented exactly the same way (as an uint8) so there is
no reason to implement it in each target separately.
This also makes it easier to add some documentation to it.
This commit replaces most heap allocations in USB related code with
stack allocations. This is important for several reasons:
- It avoids running the GC unnecessarily.
- It reduces code size by 400-464 bytes.
- USB code might be called from interrupt handlers. The heap may be in
an inconsistent state when that happens if main thread code also
performs heap allocations.
The last one is by far the most important one: not doing heap
allocations in interrupts is critical for correctness. But the code size
reduction alone should be worth it.
There are two heap allocations in USB related code left: in the function
receiveUSBControlPacket (SAMD21 and SAMD51). This heap allocation must
also be removed because it runs in an interrupt, but I've left that for
a future change.
There doesn't appear to be a user-controllable LED outside of the LED
matrix. In fact, the pin assigned for this was P13, which was connected
to the SPI SCK pin.
See "STM32F40x and STM32F41x Errata sheet" - SPI CLK port must be 'fast' or 'very fast' to avoid data corruption on last bit (at the APB clocks we configure).
This commit refactors PWM support in the machine package to be more
flexible. The new API can be used to produce tones at a specific
frequency and control servos in a portable way, by abstracting over
counter widths and prescalers.
This makes it possible to assign I2C objects (machine.I2C0,
machine.I2C1, etc.) without needing to take a pointer.
This is important especially in the future when I2C may be driven using
DMA and the machine.I2C type needs to store some state.
These stubs don't really belong there: attiny currently doesn't directly
support I2C at all (although it has hardware to support a software
implementation).
