This commit:
- Finds a common set of board feature tags and maps existing features to
that reduced set.
- Removes some less-useful board feature tags.
- Ensures all MCUs are specified correctly.
- Ensures all boards have a vendor (and fixes some vendor names).
This is to make the downloads page show a less intimidating set of filters.
Work done in conjunction with Matt Trentini <matt.trentini@gmail.com>.
This work was funded through GitHub Sponsors.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
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>
This patch forces a board to explicitly define TEXT1_ADDR in order to
split the firmware into two separate pieces. Otherwise the default is now
to produce only a single continuous firmware image with all ISR, text and
data together.
This patch allows a particular board to independently specify the linker
scripts for 1) the MCU memory layout; 2) how the different firmware
sections are arranged in memory. Right now all boards follow the same
layout with two separate firmware section, one for the ISR and one for the
text and data. This leaves room for storage (filesystem data) to live
between the firmware sections.
The idea with this patch is to accommodate boards that don't have internal
flash storage and only need to have one continuous firmware section. Thus
the common.ld script is renamed to common_ifs.ld to make explicit that it
is used for cases where the board has internal flash storage.
mpconfigboard_common.h now sets the defaults so there is no longer a need
to explicitly list all configuration options in a board's mpconfigboard.h
file.
This is to keep the top-level directory clean, to make it clear what is
core and what is a port, and to allow the repository to grow with new ports
in a sustainable way.