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7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jim Mussared
e359b077dd ports: Add board.json for all boards.
This will be used by https://micropython.org/download/ to generate the
full listing of boards and firmware files.

Optionally supports a board.md for additional customisation of the
download page, as well as deploy.md for flashing instructions.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
2021-10-27 14:04:53 +11:00
Jim Mussared
62fd450e62 drivers/neopixel: Add common machine.bitstream-based neopixel module.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
2021-08-19 22:50:32 +10:00
Damien George
eb7ae538f9 esp8266/boards/GENERIC_512K: Add custom minimal _boot.py.
Commit 0abf6f830c removed _boot.py from the
manifest for the GENERIC_512K board because the build does not include a
filesystem.  But the main code expects _boot.py to be there and prints an
error if it's not.  So add a custom _boot.py, which just sets the
gc.threshold().

Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2021-06-18 14:13:18 +10:00
Damien George
0abf6f830c esp8266/boards/GENERIC_512K: Add custom manifest without FS modules.
The 512k build does not have a filesystem so there is no reason to include
the filesystem-related modules.  This commit provides a custom manifest.py
for this board which no longer includes: _boot.py, flashbdev.py,
inisetup.py, upip.py, upip_utarfile.py.  This cuts the build down by about
9k of flash.

Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2021-05-26 21:41:40 +10:00
Damien George
e0905e85a7 esp8266: Change from FAT to littlefs v2 as default filesystem.
This commit changes the esp8266 boards to use littlefs v2 as the
filesystem, rather than FAT.  Since the esp8266 doesn't expose the
filesystem to the PC over USB there's no strong reason to keep it as FAT.
Littlefs is smaller in code size, is more efficient in use of flash to
store data, is resilient over power failure, and using it saves about 4k of
heap RAM, which can now be used for other things.

This is a backwards incompatible change because all existing esp8266 boards
will need to update their filesystem after installing new firmware (eg
backup old files, install firmware, restore files to new filesystem).

As part of this commit the memory layout of the default board (GENERIC) has
changed.  It now allocates all 1M of memory-mapped flash to the firmware,
so the filesystem area starts at the 2M point.  This is done to allow more
frozen bytecode to be stored in the 1M of memory-mapped flash.  This
requires an esp8266 module with 2M or more of flash to work, so a new board
called GENERIC_1M is added which has the old memory-mapping (but still
changed to use littlefs for the filesystem).

In summary there are now 3 esp8266 board definitions:
- GENERIC_512K: for 512k modules, doesn't have a filesystem.
- GENERIC_1M: for 1M modules, 572k for firmware+frozen code, 396k for
  filesystem (littlefs).
- GENERIC: for 2M (or greater) modules, 968k for firmware+frozen code,
  1M+ for filesystem (littlefs), FAT driver also included in firmware for
  use on, eg, external SD cards.
2020-04-04 16:30:36 +11:00
Damien George
799b6d1e0c extmod: Consolidate FAT FS config to MICROPY_VFS_FAT across all ports.
This commit removes the Makefile-level MICROPY_FATFS config and moves the
MICROPY_VFS_FAT config to the Makefile level to replace it.  It also moves
the include of the oofatfs source files in the build from each port to a
central place in extmod/extmod.mk.

For a port to enabled VFS FAT support it should now set MICROPY_VFS_FAT=1
at the level of the Makefile.  This will include the relevant oofatfs files
in the build and set MICROPY_VFS_FAT=1 at the C (preprocessor) level.
2019-11-11 11:37:38 +11:00
Mike Causer
53a9b45da1 esp8266: Add per-board configs, following other ports.
The specific board can be selected with the BOARD makefile variable.  This
defaults (if not specified) to BOARD=GENERIC, which is the original default
firmware build.  For the 512k target use BOARD=GENERIC_512K.
2019-10-10 16:32:25 +11:00