This is only very minimal support. More support (such as tinygo flash,
or peripheral access) should be added in later commits, to keep this one
focused.
Importantly, this commit changes the LLVM repo from llvm/llvm-project to
tinygo-org/llvm-project. This provides a little bit of versioning in
case something changes in the Espressif fork. If we want to upgrade to
LLVM 11 it's easy to switch back to llvm/llvm-project until Espressif
has updated their fork.
The SoftDevice should already be installed on these chips. Adding the
right build tags makes them work with the bluetooth package.
I did not change the HasLowFrequencyCrystal property: all these boards
use the MDBT50Q which appears to include a low-frequency oscillator.
That is, I tested the ItsyBitsy nRF52840 with the property set to true
and advertisement worked just fine.
This also fixes a bug: the Bluefruit doesn't have a low frequency
crystal. Somehow non-SoftDevice code still worked. However, the
SoftDevice won't initialize when this flag is set incorrectly.
This is a big change that will determine the stack size for many
goroutines automatically. Functions that aren't recursive and don't call
function pointers can in many cases have an automatically determined
worst case stack size. This is useful, as the stack size is usually much
lower than the previous hardcoded default of 1024 bytes: somewhere
around 200-500 bytes is common.
A side effect of this change is that the default stack sizes (including
the stack size for other architectures such as AVR) can now be changed
in the config JSON file, making it tunable per application.
For now, this is just an extra flag that can be used to print stack
frame information, but this is intended to provide a way to determine
stack sizes for goroutines at compile time in many cases.
Stack sizes are often somewhere around 350 bytes so are in fact not all
that big usually. Once this can be determined at compile time in many
cases, it is possible to use this information when available and as a
result increase the fallback stack size if the size cannot be determined
at compile time. This should reduce stack overflows while at the same
time reducing RAM consumption in many cases.
Interesting output for testdata/channel.go:
function stack usage (in bytes)
Reset_Handler 332
.Lcommand-line-arguments.fastreceiver 220
.Lcommand-line-arguments.fastsender 192
.Lcommand-line-arguments.iterator 192
.Lcommand-line-arguments.main$1 184
.Lcommand-line-arguments.main$2 200
.Lcommand-line-arguments.main$3 200
.Lcommand-line-arguments.main$4 328
.Lcommand-line-arguments.receive 176
.Lcommand-line-arguments.selectDeadlock 72
.Lcommand-line-arguments.selectNoOp 72
.Lcommand-line-arguments.send 184
.Lcommand-line-arguments.sendComplex 192
.Lcommand-line-arguments.sender 192
.Lruntime.run$1 548
This shows that the stack size (if these numbers are correct) can in
fact be determined automatically in many cases, especially for small
goroutines. One of the great things about Go is lightweight goroutines,
and reducing stack sizes is very important to make goroutines
lightweight on microcontrollers.
Debug information is often useful and there is no reason to include it
for Go code but not for C code. Also, disabling debug information should
disable it entirely, not just for Go code.
- Fix UART & putChar
- Timer-based sleep
- Enable systick in abort
- Buffered, interrupt-based UART TX
- Use the new interrupt API and fix sleepTicks
- Make pins behave more like other boards
- Use the MCU's UART numbering
- Allow interrupts to wake the scheduler (#1214)
This is needed to avoid linking errors because the globals are placed
in memory at address 0x80000000 which is out of bounds for the default
code model.
It was `avr-atmel-none`, which is incorrect. It must be
`avr-unknown-unknown`.
Additionally, there is no reason to specify the target triple per chip,
it can be done for all AVR chips at once as it doesn't vary like
Cortex-M chips.
This change adds support for `tinygo gdb` on the PCA10056.
The board is normally flashed with the MSD programmer. Debugging needs a
real debugger interface however, which is relatively simple by just
adding the right OpenOCD configuration.
This makes it possible to use Bluetooth on the BBC micro:bit.
Note that you need to use -programmer=cmsis-dap otherwise the SoftDevice
will be erased while flashing something that uses Bluetooth.
The RAM base address is needed during SoftDevice initialization. So far,
the same magic value has been used in aykevl/go-bluetooth and in TinyGo,
but this should be configured in only one place.
This will have additional benefits in the future:
* It is currently set to 0x39c0, which is around 14.5kB. Most nrf51822
chips have only 16kB of RAM, so this is way too much for those
chips.
* LLD in LLVM 11 allows expressions in the MEMORY part of linker
scripts, which will allow overriding the SoftDevice RAM area with a
linker flag, which might come in handy.
Eventually we might want to start using the FPU, but the easy option
right now is to simply disable it everywhere. Previously, it depended on
whether Clang was built as part of TinyGo or it was an external binary.
By setting the floating point mode explicitly, such inconsistencies are
avoided.
This commit creates a new cortex-m4 target which can be the central
place for setting FPU-related settings across all Cortex-M4 chips.
This results in bigger code size, but it works around a bug in the
linker.
The issue starts with the problem that libraries (picolibc, compiler-rt)
were compiled as ARM and the rest as Thumb. This causes some blx
instructions to be inserted by the linker to call into these libraries.
Ideally we should fix the libraries to use Thumb mode instead, but that
requires some more extensive changes (including fixes to compiler-rt)
and it's just way easier to use ARM mode everywhere.
The GC stack scanning code was implemented in the Cortex-M assembly, which meant that it was not available on the GBA which is pre-cortex.
This change adds a copy of the relevant code into a new asembly file which is used on the GBA.
