If MICROPY_PY_SYS_PATH_ARGV_DEFAULTS is enabled (which it is by default)
then sys.path and sys.argv will be initialised and populated with default
values. This keeps all bare-metal ports aligned.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Frozen modules will be searched preferentially, but gives the user the
ability to override this behavior.
This matches the previous behavior where "" was implicitly the frozen
search path, but the frozen list was checked before the filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
The current ST HAL does not support reading the extended CSD so cannot
correctly detect the capacity of high-capacity cards. As a workaround, the
capacity can be forced via the MICROPY_HW_MMCARD_LOG_BLOCK_NBR config
option.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
These were commented correctly by their colour, but in the wrong order with
respect to the PCB silkscreen.
Fixes issue #8054.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Instead of board pins, so that pins which have only the CPU specified in
pins.csv can still be used with mp_hal_pin_config_alt_static().
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
A board can now define the following linker symbols to configure its flash
storage layout:
_micropy_hw_internal_flash_storage_start
_micropy_hw_internal_flash_storage_end
_micropy_hw_internal_flash_storage_ram_cache_start
_micropy_hw_internal_flash_storage_ram_cache_end
And optionally have a second flash segment by configuring
MICROPY_HW_ENABLE_INTERNAL_FLASH_STORAGE_SEGMENT2 to 1 and defining:
_micropy_hw_internal_flash_storage2_start
_micropy_hw_internal_flash_storage2_end
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This reduces code size and code duplication, and fixes `pyb.usb_mode()` so
that it now returns the correct string when in multi-VCP mode (before, it
would return None when in one of these modes).
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This is to make the builds for all nucleo/discovery boards uniform, so they
can be treated the same by the auto build scripts.
The CI script is updated to explicitly enable mboot and packing, to test
these features.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This prevents SPI4/5 from being used if SDIO and CYW43 are enabled, because
the DMA for the SDIO is used on an IRQ and must be exclusivly available for
use by the SDIO peripheral.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Because DMA2 may be in use by other peripherals, eg SPI1.
On PYBD-SF6 it's possible to trigger a bug in the existing code by turning
on WLAN and connecting to an AP, pinging the IP address from a PC and
running the following code on the PYBD:
def spi_test(s):
while 1:
s.write('test')
s.read(4)
spi_test(machine.SPI(1,100000000))
This will eventually fail with `OSError: [Errno 110] ETIMEDOUT` because
DMA2 was turned off by the CYW43 driver during the SPI1 transfer.
This commit fixes the bug by removing the code that explicitly disables
DMA2. Instead DMA2 will be automatically disabled after an inactivity
timeout, see commit a96afae90f
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Quail (https://www.mikroe.com/quail, PID: MIKROE-1793) is based on an
STM32F427VI CPU, featuring 2048 kB of Flash memory and 192 kB of RAM. An
on-board Cypress S25FL164K adds 8 MB of SPI Flash.
Quail has 4 mikroBUS(TM) sockets for Mikroe click(TM) board connectivity,
along with 24 screw terminals for connecting additional electronics and two
USB ports (one for programming, the other for external mass storage).
4 UARTs, 2 SPIs and 1 I2C bus are available for communication.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Cappelletti <lorenzo.cappelletti@gmail.com>
Don't force the 'HAL' string to be part of the platform string because
it doesn't have a sensible meaning for all possible platforms, and
swap it with the PLATFORM_ARCH string so the strings which most platforms
have come first.
Although the pyboard has only 4 LEDs, there are some boards that (may) have
more. This commit adds 2 more LEDs to the led.c file that if defined in
the board-specific config file will be compiled in.
Eliminate noise data from being sent to the I2S peripheral when the
transmitted sample stream is stopped.
Signed-off-by: Mike Teachman <mike.teachman@gmail.com>
This is an stm32-specific feature that's accessed via the pyb module, so
not something that will be widely enabled.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This commit is a no-op change. Future improvements can come from making
individual boards use CORE or BASIC.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Prior to this commit IRQs on STM32F4 could be lost because SR is cleared by
reading SR then reading DR. For example, if both RXNE and IDLE IRQs were
active upon entry to the IRQ handler, then IDLE is lost because the code
that handles RXNE comes first and accidentally clears SR (by reading SR
then DR to get the incoming character).
This commit fixes this problem by making the IRQ handler more atomic in the
following operations:
- get current IRQ status flags
- deal with RX character
- clear remaining status flags
- call user handler
On the STM32F4 it's very hard to get this right because the only way to
clear IRQ status flags is to read SR then DR, but the read of DR may read
some data which should remain in the register until the user wants to read
it. And it won't work to cache the read because RTS/CTS flow control will
then not work. So instead the new code disables interrupts if the DR is
full and waits for the user to read it before reenabling the interrupts.
Fixes issue mentioned in #4599 and #6082.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
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>
Ensures consistent behaviour and resolves the D-Cache bug (the "exhaustive"
argument being lost due to cache being turned off) when O0 is used.
The changes in this commit are:
- Change -O0 to -Os because "gcc is considered broken at -O0" according to
https://github.com/ARM-software/CMSIS_5/issues/620#issuecomment-550235656
- Use volatile for mem_base so the compiler doesn't optimise away reads or
writes to the SDRAM, which is being tested.
- Use DSB to prevent any other compiler optimisations that would change the
testing logic.
- Use alternating pattern/antipattern in exhaustive test to catch more
hardware/configuration errors.
Implementation adapted by @andrewleech, taken directly from investigation
by @iabdalkader and @dpgeorge.
See #7841 and #7869 for further discussion.
The H743 has equal sized pages of 128k, which means the filesystem doesn't
need to be near the beginning. This commit moves the filesystem to the
very end of flash, and extends it to 512k (4 pages).
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This change adds the OLIMEX H407 support to the STM32 port. The H407
(https://www.olimex.com/Products/ARM/ST/STM32-H407/) is simliar to the
already existing E407
(https://www.olimex.com/Products/ARM/ST/STM32-E407) but does not support
Ethernet and has a full-size USB-A port instead of a Mini-USB socket.
Both boards use the STM32F407ZGT6 CPU.
This port is basically a copy of the E407 but with changed pinmux:
* Removed Ethernet pin definition
* Removed UART1 (pins are used for other functions)
* Removed UART3 flow control pins (pins are used for other functions)
* Removed SD-Card detect pin (since it is not connected on the H407)
A REPL on UART3 is connected to the U3BOOT-header, a 3-pin header with RX,
TX and GND that is intended for the serial terminal.
Tested:
* Micro-SD Card is detected when inserted on RESET
* REPL on UART3 works
* Serial port on the mini USB socket
Signed-off-by: Chris Fiege <cfi@pengutronix.de>
This commit removes all parts of code associated with the existing
MICROPY_OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE optimisation option, including the
-mcache-lookup-bc option to mpy-cross.
This feature originally provided a significant performance boost for Unix,
but wasn't able to be enabled for MCU targets (due to frozen bytecode), and
added significant extra complexity to generating and distributing .mpy
files.
The equivalent performance gain is now provided by the combination of
MICROPY_OPT_LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE (which has
been enabled on the unix port in the previous commit).
It's hard to provide precise performance numbers, but tests have been run
on a wide variety of architectures (x86-64, ARM Cortex, Aarch64, RISC-V,
xtensa) and they all generally agree on the qualitative improvements seen
by the combination of MICROPY_OPT_LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and
MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE.
For example, on a "quiet" Linux x64 environment (i3-5010U @ 2.10GHz) the
change from CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE, to LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH combined
with MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE is:
diff of scores (higher is better)
N=2000 M=2000 bccache -> attrmapcache diff diff% (error%)
bm_chaos.py 13742.56 -> 13905.67 : +163.11 = +1.187% (+/-3.75%)
bm_fannkuch.py 60.13 -> 61.34 : +1.21 = +2.012% (+/-2.11%)
bm_fft.py 113083.20 -> 114793.68 : +1710.48 = +1.513% (+/-1.57%)
bm_float.py 256552.80 -> 243908.29 : -12644.51 = -4.929% (+/-1.90%)
bm_hexiom.py 521.93 -> 625.41 : +103.48 = +19.826% (+/-0.40%)
bm_nqueens.py 197544.25 -> 217713.12 : +20168.87 = +10.210% (+/-3.01%)
bm_pidigits.py 8072.98 -> 8198.75 : +125.77 = +1.558% (+/-3.22%)
misc_aes.py 17283.45 -> 16480.52 : -802.93 = -4.646% (+/-0.82%)
misc_mandel.py 99083.99 -> 128939.84 : +29855.85 = +30.132% (+/-5.88%)
misc_pystone.py 83860.10 -> 82592.56 : -1267.54 = -1.511% (+/-2.27%)
misc_raytrace.py 21490.40 -> 22227.23 : +736.83 = +3.429% (+/-1.88%)
This shows that the new optimisations are at least as good as the existing
inline-bytecode-caching, and are sometimes much better (because the new
ones apply caching to a wider variety of map lookups).
The new optimisations can also benefit code generated by the native
emitter, because they apply to the runtime rather than the generated code.
The improvement for the native emitter when LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and
MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE are enabled is (same Linux environment as above):
diff of scores (higher is better)
N=2000 M=2000 native -> nat-attrmapcache diff diff% (error%)
bm_chaos.py 14130.62 -> 15464.68 : +1334.06 = +9.441% (+/-7.11%)
bm_fannkuch.py 74.96 -> 76.16 : +1.20 = +1.601% (+/-1.80%)
bm_fft.py 166682.99 -> 168221.86 : +1538.87 = +0.923% (+/-4.20%)
bm_float.py 233415.23 -> 265524.90 : +32109.67 = +13.756% (+/-2.57%)
bm_hexiom.py 628.59 -> 734.17 : +105.58 = +16.796% (+/-1.39%)
bm_nqueens.py 225418.44 -> 232926.45 : +7508.01 = +3.331% (+/-3.10%)
bm_pidigits.py 6322.00 -> 6379.52 : +57.52 = +0.910% (+/-5.62%)
misc_aes.py 20670.10 -> 27223.18 : +6553.08 = +31.703% (+/-1.56%)
misc_mandel.py 138221.11 -> 152014.01 : +13792.90 = +9.979% (+/-2.46%)
misc_pystone.py 85032.14 -> 105681.44 : +20649.30 = +24.284% (+/-2.25%)
misc_raytrace.py 19800.01 -> 23350.73 : +3550.72 = +17.933% (+/-2.79%)
In summary, compared to MICROPY_OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE, the new
MICROPY_OPT_LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE options:
- are simpler;
- take less code size;
- are faster (generally);
- work with code generated by the native emitter;
- can be used on embedded targets with a small and constant RAM overhead;
- allow the same .mpy bytecode to run on all targets.
See #7680 for further discussion. And see also #7653 for a discussion
about simplifying mpy-cross options.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Any external user of DMA (eg a board with a custom DMA driver) must call
dma_external_acquire() for their DMA controller/stream to ensure that the
DMA clock is not automatically turned off while it's still being used
externally.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This change allows a CPU pin to be hidden from the user by prefixing it
with a "-" in the pins.csv file for a board. It will still be available in
C code, just not exposed to Python.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Don't want users to accidentally use boot.py (because recovering requires
knowing how to activate safe mode).
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This commit is based upon prior work of @dpgeorge and @koendv.
MCU support for the STM32H7A3 and B3 families MCUs:
- STM32H7A3xx
- STM32H7A3xxQ (SMPS)
- STM32H7B3xx
- STM32H7B3xxQ (SMPS)
Support has been added for the STM32H7B3I_DK board.
Signed-off-by: Jan Staal <info@janstaal.com>
To simplify the socket state.
The CC3K driver (see drivers/cc3000/inc/socket.h and src/socket.c) has
socket() returning an INT16 so there is now enough room to store it
directly in the fileno member.
The zephyr port doesn't support SoftI2C so it's not enabled, and the legacy
I2C constructor check can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
To keep things neat and tidy, we ensure that each file has 1 and only 1
newline at the end of each file.
Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@pybricks.com>
A board can now define the following to fully customise the extended block
device interface provided by the storage sub-system:
- MICROPY_HW_BDEV_BLOCKSIZE_EXT
- MICROPY_HW_BDEV_READBLOCKS_EXT
- MICROPY_HW_BDEV_WRITEBLOCKS_EXT
- MICROPY_HW_BDEV_ERASEBLOCKS_EXT
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This commit creates a new stm32 board for the NUCLEO_H743ZI2, which is the
current version of this from ST. This is a modified copy of the
NUCLEO_H743ZI board, and the ZI2 board differs in a few minor ways:
- LED2 has moved from PB7 to PE1 and is now yellow rather than blue
- the USB power enable has moved from PG6 to PG10
- the USER button is now pulled down
This allows changing the frequency to: 100kHz, 200kHz, 400kHz, 800kHz,
1MHz, 2MHz, 4MHz, 8MHz, 16MHz, 32MHz, 64MHz. For frequencies 2MHz and
below, low power run (LPR) mode is enabled automatically.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
For consistency with other board-level config macros that begin with
MICROPY_HW_USB.
Also allow boards in the mimxrt, nrf and samd ports to configure these
values.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Add basic support for LEGO HUB NO.6 (e.g. LEGO SPIKE Prime, LEGO MINDSTORMS
Robot Inventor).
See README.md for details.
Thanks to @dpgeorge for helping put this together.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Thyrrestrup <tt@LEGO.com>
It needs to use a different function because the formula to compute the
baudrate on LPUART1 is different to a normal UART.
Fixes issue #7466.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
* Make SDRAM test cache-aware for newer MCUs.
* Use the defined data bus width (instead of the fixed 8-bits).
* Allow optional failure on error with verbose error messages.
* Test speed is now inverted (test accepts exhaustive instead fast).
Call MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK even on very short delays so that busy loops
that call sleep_ms still yield to events and other threads.
See related issue #5344.
Replace "master" with "controller" and "slave" with "peripheral" in
comments, errors, and debug messages.
Add CONTROLLER and PERIPHERAL constants to pyb.SPI and pyb.I2C classes;
retain MASTER and SLAVE constants for backward compatiblity.
This commit adds I2S protocol support for the esp32 and stm32 ports, via
a new machine.I2S class. It builds on the stm32 work of blmorris, #1361.
Features include:
- a consistent I2S API across the esp32 and stm32 ports
- I2S configurations supported:
- master transmit and master receive
- 16-bit and 32-bit sample sizes
- mono and stereo formats
- sampling frequency
- 3 modes of operation:
- blocking
- non-blocking with callback
- uasyncio
- internal ring buffer size can be tuned
- documentation for Pyboards and esp32-based boards
- tested on the following development boards:
- Pyboard D SF2W
- Pyboard V1.1
- ESP32 with SPIRAM
- ESP32
Signed-off-by: Mike Teachman <mike.teachman@gmail.com>
The ADC_FIRST_GPIO_CHANNEL and ADC_LAST_GPIO_CHANNEL macros are no longer
needed. Instead the pin_adcX table (X = 1, 2, 3) is now generated to be
the exact size needed for a given MCU, and MP_ARRAY_SIZE(pin_adcX) is used
to determine the upper bound.
This commit also allows CPU pins to be excluded from ADC configuration if
they are hidden by prefixing their name with a "-".
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
* Modify common functions in adc.c to accept ADC handle.
* Most external channels are connected to ADC12 which is used by default.
* For ADCAll (internal channels) ADC3 is used instead.
* Issue #4435 is possibly related (at least partially fixed).
This adds a call to mp_deinit() in the main function of the STM32 port.
This enables the use of MICROPY_PORT_DEINIT_FUNC on that port, as well as
cleaning up the GIL if threading is enabled.
Previous behaviour was: if boot.py had an exception then main.py would
still run, which is arguably unexpected behaviour.
This commit changes the behaviour so main.py is not run if boot.py has an
error.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
It reschedules the BT HCI poll soft timer so that it is called exactly when
the next timer expires.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Instead of using systick the BT subsystem is now scheduled using a soft
timer. This means it is scheduled only when it is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
And call mp_pairheap_init_node() in soft_timer_static_init() so that
reinsert can be called after static_init.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This introduces a new macro to get the main thread and uses it to ensure
that asynchronous exceptions such as KeyboardInterrupt (CTRL+C) are only
scheduled on the main thread. This is more deterministic than being
scheduled on a random thread and is more in line with CPython that only
allow signal handlers to run on the main thread.
Fixes issue #7026.
Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@pybricks.com>
This moves mp_pending_exception from mp_state_vm_t to mp_state_thread_t.
This allows exceptions to be scheduled on a specific thread.
Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@pybricks.com>
With GCC 11 there is now a warning about array bounds of OTP-mac, due to
the OTP being a literal address.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Leaving the bootloader from an IRQ (eg USB or I2C IRQ) will not work if
MBOOT_LEAVE_BOOTLOADER_VIA_RESET is disabled, ie if mboot jumps directly to
the application. This is because the CPU will still be in IRQ state when
the application starts and IRQs of lower priority will be blocked.
Fix this by setting a flag when the bootloader should finish, and exit the
bootloader always from the main (top level) thread.
This also improves the USB behaviour of mboot: it no longer abruptly
disconnects when the manifest command is sent.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
RX and CTS are the input pins and pull-ups are enabled so they don't cause
a problem if left unconnected. But the output pins don't need a pull up
(they were originally all configured with pull up in commit
8f7491a109).
If needed, the pull-ups can be disabled in Python using machine.Pin after
the UART is constructed.
See issue #4369.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
The DMA driver will turn off DMA if it hasn't been used for an amount of
time (to save power). The SDIO driver for cyw43 WLAN was not informing the
DMA driver that it was using DMA and there was a chance that the DMA would
turn off in the middle of an SDIO DMA transfer. The symptoms of this would
be printing of SDIO error messages and a failure to communicate with the
cyw43 WLAN module.
This commit fixes this issue by changing the SDIO driver to use the
dma_nohal_XXX API to initialise and start the DMA.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
A board can now customise mboot with:
- MBOOT_LED1, MBOOT_LED2, MBOOT_LED3, MBOOT_LED4: if it needs to have
different LEDs for mboot compared to the application
- MBOOT_BOARD_LED_INIT: if it needs a fully customised LED init function
- MBOOT_BOARD_LED_STATE: if it needs a fully customised LED state-setting
function
- MBOOT_BOARD_GET_RESET_MODE: if it needs a fully customised function to
get the reset mode
With full customisation, the only requirement is a single LED to show the
status of the bootloader (idle, erasing, flashing, etc), which can be
configured to do nothing if needed.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
It is enabled by default to get the standard behaviour of doing a reset
after it is finished, but can be disabled by a board to jump straight to
the application (likely the board needs to use MBOOT_BOARD_CLEANUP to make
this work).
The application is passed a reset mode of BOARDCTRL_RESET_MODE_BOOTLOADER
if the bootloader was active and entered via a jump.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This new logic is equivalent to the old logic when the only possibilities
for reset_mode are NORMAL, SAFE_MODE and FILESYSTEM, which is the standard
case. But the new logic also allows other reset_mode values (eg
BOOTLOADER) to run boot.py and main.py.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
When disabled the bootloader is entered via a direct jump. When enabled
the bootloader is entered via a system reset then a jump. It's enabled by
default to retain the existing behaviour, which is the recommended way.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This can now be selected by setting MICROPY_HW_SDIO_SDMMC, which defaults
to 1, ie SDMMC1. The pins can also be selected and default to the standard
C8/C9/C10/C11/C12/D2.
This can now be selected by setting MICROPY_HW_SDCARD_SDMMC, which defaults
to 1, ie SDMMC1. This commit also renames the SD pin configuration macros
from MICROPY_HW_SDMMC2_xxx to MICROPY_HW_SDCARD_xxx, as well as renaming
MICROPY_HW_SDMMC_BUS_WIDTH to MICROPY_HW_SDCARD_BUS_WIDTH.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
A board can now define MBOOT_TEXT0_ADDR to place mboot at a location other
than 0x08000000. This can be useful if, for example, there is already a
different bootloader on the device.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
A board can now define MBOOT_LD_FILES (at the Makefile-level) to specify
custom linker scripts. And stm32_generic.ld has been split into 2 pieces
so one or the other can be reused (usually stm32_sections.ld wolud be
reused by a board, and stm32_memory.ld redefined).
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
A board can now use BUILDING_MBOOT at the Makefile-level to do things
conditional on building mboot, for example add source files to SRC_C.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Commit 1e297c8898 introduced a bug where the
very first reset-mode state on the LEDs was not shown, because prior to
that commit the first reset-mode state was the same as the initial LED
state (green on, others off) and update_reset_mode() was called after
setting this initial LED state.
This is fixed in this commit by changing the update_reset_mode() loop so
that it displays the current reset mode before doing the delay.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
And use the same boardctrl.h header for both the application and mboot so
these constants are consistent.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This adds support for making static (ie not on the Python GC heap) soft
timers. This can be useful for a board to define a custom background
handler, or eventually for BLE/network processing to use instead of systick
slots; it will be more efficient using soft timer for this.
The main issue with using the existing code for static soft timers is that
it would combine heap allocated and statically allocated soft_timer_entry_t
instances in the same pairing-heap data structure. This would prevent the
GC from tracing some of the heap allocated entries (because the GC won't
follow pointers outside the heap).
This commit makes it so that soft timer entries are explicitly marked,
instead of relying on implicit marking by having the root of the pairing
heap in the root pointer section. Also, on soft reset only the heap-
allocated soft timers are deleted from the pairing heap, leaving the
statically allocated ones.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Improvements are:
- Default period is 1000ms with callback disabled.
- if period is not specified then it's not updated (previously, if period
was not specified then it was set to -1 and running the timer callback as
fast as possible, making the REPL unresponsive).
- Use uint64_t to compute delta_ms, and raise a ValueError if the period is
too large.
- If callback is not specified then it's not updated.
- Specifying None for the callback will disable the timer.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This function includes the UART prescaler in the calculation (if it has
one, eg on H7 and WB MCUs).
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
The STM32WB has a problem when address resolution is enabled: under certain
conditions the MCU can get into a state where it draws an additional 10mA
or so and eventually ends up with a broken BLE RX path in the silicon. A
simple way to reproduce this is to enable address resolution (which is the
default for NimBLE) and start the device advertising. If there is enough
BLE activity in the vicinity then the device will at some point enter the
bad state and, if left long enough, will have permanent BLE RX damage.
STMicroelectronics are aware of this issue. The only known workaround at
this stage is to not enable address resolution, which is implemented by
this commit.
Work done in collaboration with Jim Mussared aka @jimmo.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Prior to this commit, if C2 was busy (eg lots of BLE activity) then it may
not have had time to respond to the notification on the IPCC_CH_MM channel
by the time additional memory was available to put on that buffer. In such
a case C1 would modify the free buffer list while C2 was potentially
accessing it, and this would eventually lead to lost memory buffers (or a
corrupt linked list). If all buffers become lost then ACL packets
(asynchronous events) can no longer be delivered from C2 to C1.
This commit fixes this issue by waiting for C2 to indicate that it has
finished using the free buffer list.
Work done in collaboration with Jim Mussared aka @jimmo.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
STM32L476RG MCU of NUCLEO_L476RG board has 6 UART/USART units in total
(USART1, USART2, USART3, UART4, UART5 and LPUART1), but only UART2,
connected to REPL, was defined and available in Python code.
Defined are all 5 remaining UART/USART units including LPUART1.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Ziubin aziubin@googlemail.com
This commit simplifies the customisation of the main MicroPython execution
loop (4 macros are reduced to 2), and allows a board to have full control
over the execution (or not) of boot.py and main.py.
For boards that use the default start-up code, there is no functional
change in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Support for C++ was added in 97960dc7de but
that commit didn't include the C++ exception handling table in the binary
firmware image. This commit fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
The GNU Make dir command uses spaces as item separator so it does not
work for e.g building the STM32 port on Cygwin with a default Arm
installation in "c:/program files (x86)/GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain".
Fix by using POSIX dirname on a quoted path instead.
This allows the user to enable wake-up sources using the EWUP bits, on F7
MCUs.
Disabling the wake-up sources while clearing the wake-up flags follows the
reference manual and ST examples.
state.reset_mode is updated by `MICROPY_BOARD_BEFORE_SOFT_RESET_LOOP` but
not passed to `init_flash_fs`, and so factory reset is not executed on
boards that do not have a bootloader. This bug was introduced by
4c3976bbcaFixes#6903.
A corrupt filesystem may lead to a request for a block which is out of
range of the block device limits. Return an error instead of passing the
request down to the lower layer.
Two of the defaults have also changed in this commit:
- MICROPY_HW_RFCORE_BLE_LSE_SOURCE changed from 1 to 0, which configures
the LsSource to be LSE (needed due to errata 2.2.1).
- MICROPY_HW_RFCORE_BLE_VITERBI_MODE changed from 0 to 1, which enables
Viterbi mode, following all the ST examples.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
These ports already have uzlib enabled so this additional ubinascii.crc32
function only costs about 90 bytes of flash.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Add LPUART1 as a standard UART. No low power features are supported, yet.
LPUART1 is enabled as the next available UART after the standard U(S)ARTs:
STM32WB: LPUART1 = UART(2)
STM32L0: LPUART1 = UART(6)
STM32L4: LPUART1 = UART(6)
STM32H7: LPUART1 = UART(9)
On all ports: LPUART1 = machine.UART('LP1')
LPUART1 is enabled by defining MICROPY_HW_LPUART1_TX and
MICROPY_HW_LPUART1_RX in mpconfigboard.h.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <c.mason@inchipdesign.com.au>
So that mboot can be used to program encrypted/signed firmware to regions
of flash that are not the main application, eg that are the filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
The default for these is to enable them, but they can now be disabled
individually by a board configuration.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
If a board defines USBD_VID then that will be used instead of the default.
And then the board must also define all USBD_PID_xxx values that it needs.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This allows changing the baudrate of the UART without reinitialising it
(reinitialising can lead to spurious characters sent on the TX line).
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
To simplify config, there's no need to specify MP_PLAT_PRINT_STRN if it's
the same as the default definition in py/mpconfig.h.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
With mboot encrpytion and fsload enabled, the DEBUG build -O0 compiler
settings result in mboot no longer fitting in the 32k sector. This commit
changes this to -Og which also brings it into line with the regular stm32
build.
MCUs with device-only USB peripherals (eg L0, WB) do not implement (at
least not in the ST HAL) the HAL_PCD_DisconnectCallback event. So if a USB
cable is disconnected the USB driver does not deinitialise itself
(usbd_cdc_deinit is not called) and the CDC driver can stay in the
USBD_CDC_CONNECT_STATE_CONNECTED state. Then if the USB was attached to
the REPL, output can become very slow waiting in usbd_cdc_tx_always for
500ms for each character.
The disconnect event is not implemented on these MCUs but the suspend event
is. And in the situation where the USB cable is disconnected the suspend
event is raised because SOF packets are no longer received.
The issue of very slow output on these MCUs is fixed in this commit (really
worked around) by adding a check in usbd_cdc_tx_always to see if the USB
device state is suspended, and, if so, breaking out of the 500ms wait loop.
This should also help all MCUs for a real USB suspend.
A proper fix for MCUs with device-only USB would be to implement or somehow
synthesise the HAL_PCD_DisconnectCallback event.
See issue #6672.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Don't clear the IPCC channel flag until we've actually handled the incoming
data, or else the wireless firmware may clobber the IPCC buffer if more
data arrives. This requires masking the IRQ until the data is handled.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
It's enabled by default to retain the existing behaviour. A board can
disable this option if it manages mounting the filesystem itself, for
example in frozen code.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Changes are:
- refactor to use new _create_element function
- support extended version of MOUNT element with block size
- support STATUS element
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This new element takes the form: (ELEM_TYPE_STATUS, 4, <address>). If this
element is present in the mboot command then mboot will store to the given
address the result of the filesystem firmware update process. The address
can for example be an RTC backup register.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Instead it is now passed in as an optional parameter to the ELEM_MOUNT
element, with a compile-time configurable default.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
The superblock for littlefs is in block 0 and 1, but block 0 may be erased
or partially written, so block 1 must be checked if block 0 does not have a
valid littlefs superblock in it.
Prior to this commit, if block 0 did not contain a valid littlefs
superblock (but block 1 did) then the auto-detection would fail, mounting a
FAT filesystem would also fail, and the system would reformat the flash,
even though it may have contained a valid littlefs filesystem. This is now
fixed.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
To match the definition of GENERATE_PACK_DFU, so a board can customise the
location/name of this file if needed.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
To have at least one board configured with MBOOT_ENABLE_PACKING, for CI
testing purposes and demonstration of the feature.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This commit adds support to stm32's mboot for signe, encrypted and
compressed DFU updates. It is based on inital work done by Andrew Leech.
The feature is enabled by setting MBOOT_ENABLE_PACKING to 1 in the board's
mpconfigboard.mk file, and by providing a header file in the board folder
(usually called mboot_keys.h) with a set of signing and encryption keys
(which can be generated by mboot_pack_dfu.py). The signing and encryption
is provided by libhydrogen. Compression is provided by uzlib. Enabling
packing costs about 3k of flash.
The included mboot_pack_dfu.py script converts a .dfu file to a .pack.dfu
file which can be subsequently deployed to a board with mboot in packing
mode. This .pack.dfu file is created as follows:
- the firmware from the original .dfu is split into chunks (so the
decryption can fit in RAM)
- each chunk is compressed, encrypted, a header added, then signed
- a special final chunk is added with a signature of the entire firmware
- all chunks are concatenated to make the final .pack.dfu file
The .pack.dfu file can be deployed over USB or from the internal filesystem
on the device (if MBOOT_FSLOAD is enabled).
See #5267 and #5309 for additional discussion.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Prior to this fix, the final piece of data in a compressed file may have
been lost when decompressing.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Mboot builds do not use the external SPI flash in caching mode, and
explicitly disabling it saves RAM and a small bit of flash.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This only needs to be enabled if a board uses FAT FS on external SPI flash.
When disabled (and using external SPI flash) 4k of RAM can be saved.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
When littlefs is enabled extended reading must be supported, and using this
function to read the first block for auto-detection is more efficient (a
smaller read) and does not require a cached SPI-flash read.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
These functions enable SDRAM data retention in stop mode. Example usage,
in mpconfigboard.h:
#define MICROPY_BOARD_ENTER_STOP sdram_enter_low_power();
#define MICROPY_BOARD_LEAVE_STOP sdram_leave_low_power();
Calculate the bit timing from baudrate if provided, allowing sample point
override. This makes it a lot easier to make CAN work between different
MCUs with different clocks, prescalers etc.
Tested on F4, F7 and H7 Y/V variants.
This much buffer space is required for CDC data out endpoints to avoid any
buffer overflows when the USB CDC is saturated with data.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
The -Og optimisation level produces a more realistic build, gives a better
debugging experience, and generates smaller code than -O0, allowing debug
builds to fit in flash.
This commit also assigns variables in can.c to prevent warnings when -Og is
used, and builds a board in CI with DEBUG=1 enabled.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Allows reserving CAN, I2C, SPI, Timer and UART peripherals. If reserved
the peripheral cannot be accessed from Python.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Even though IRQs are disabled this seems to be required on H7 Rev Y,
otherwise Systick interrupt triggers and the MCU leaves the stop mode
immediately.
This commit saves OSCs/PLLs state before STOP mode and restores them on
exit. Some boards use HSI48 for USB for example, others have PLL2/3
enabled, etc.
Also known as L2CAP "connection oriented channels". This provides a
socket-like data transfer mechanism for BLE.
Currently only implemented for NimBLE on STM32 / Unix.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Hardware I2C implementations must provide a .init() protocol method if they
want to support reconfiguration. Otherwise the default is that i2c.init()
raises an OSError (currently the case for all ports).
mp_machine_soft_i2c_locals_dict is renamed to mp_machine_i2c_locals_dict to
match the generic SPI bindings.
Fixes issue #6623 (where calling .init() on a HW I2C would crash).
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This fixes the build for non-STM32WB based boards when the NimBLE submodule
has not been fetched, and also allows STM32WB boards to build with BLE
disabled.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This is needed to moderate concurrent access to the internal flash, as
while an erase/write is in progress execution will stall on the wireless
core due to the bus being locked.
This implements Figure 10 from AN5289 Rev 3.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This commit switches the STM32WB HCI interface (between the two CPUs) to
require the use of MICROPY_PY_BLUETOOTH_USE_SYNC_EVENTS, and as a
consequence to require NimBLE. IPCC RX IRQs now schedule the NimBLE
handler to run via mp_sched_schedule.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This changes stm32 from using PENDSV to run NimBLE to use the MicroPython
scheduler instead. This allows Python BLE callbacks to be invoked directly
(and therefore synchronously) rather than via the ringbuffer.
The NimBLE UART HCI and event processing now happens in a scheduled task
every 128ms. When RX IRQ idle events arrive, it will also schedule this
task to improve latency.
There is a similar change for the unix port where the background thread now
queues the scheduled task.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This requires that the event handlers are called from non-interrupt context
(i.e. the MicroPython scheduler).
This will allow the BLE stack (e.g. NimBLE) to run from the scheduler
rather than an IRQ like PENDSV, and therefore be able to invoke Python
callbacks directly/synchronously. This allows writing Python BLE handlers
for events that require immediate response such as _IRQ_READ_REQUEST (which
was previous a hard IRQ) and future events relating to pairing/bonding.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Devices with RTC backup-batteries have been shown (very rarely) to have
incorrect RTC prescaler values. Such incorrect values mean the RTC counts
fast or slow, and will be wrong forever if the power/backup-battery is
always present.
This commit detects such a state at start up (hard reset) and corrects it
by reconfiguring the RTC prescaler values.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
And rename SRC_HAL -> HAL_SRC_C and SRC_USBDEV -> USBDEV_SRC_C for
consistency with other source variables.
Follow on from 0fff2e03fe
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
The file `$(BUILD)/firmware.bin` was used by the target `deploy-stlink` and
`deploy-openocd` but it was generated indirectly by the target
`firmware.dfu`.
As this file could be used to program boards directly by a Mass Storage
copy, it's better to make it explicitly generated.
Additionally, some target are refactored to remove redundancy and be more
explicit on dependencies.
Running the update inside the soft-reset loop will mean that (on boards
like PYBD that use a bootloader) the same reset mode is used each
reset loop, eg factory reset occurs each time.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
The same seed will only occur if the board is the same, the RTC has the
same time (eg freshly powered up) and the first call to this function (eg
via an "import random") is done at exactly the same time since reset.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Prior to this commit, the ADC calibration code was never executing because
ADVREGEN bit was set making the CR register always non-zero.
This commit changes the logic so that ADC calibration is always run when
the ADC is disabled and an ADC channel is initialised. It also uses the LL
API functions to do the calibration, to make sure it is done correctly on
each MCU variant.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
If the device is not connected over USB CDC to a host then all output to
the CDC (eg initial boot messages) is written to the CDC TX buffer with
wrapping, so that the most recent data is retained when the USB CDC is
eventually connected (eg so the REPL banner is displayed upon connection).
This commit fixes a bug in this behaviour, which was likely introduced in
e4fcd216e0, where the initial data in the CDC
TX buffer is repeated multiple times on first connection of the device to
the host.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
When installing WS firmware, the very first GET_STATE can take several
seconds to respond (especially with the larger binaries like
BLE_stack_full).
Allows stm.rfcore_sys_hci to take an optional timeout, defaulting to
SYS_ACK_TIMEOUT_MS (which is 250ms).
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
The flash can sometimes be in an already-unlocked state, and attempting to
unlock it again will cause an immediate reset. So make _Flash.unlock()
check FLASH_CR_LOCK to get the current state.
Also fix some magic numbers for FLASH_CR_LOCK AND FLASH_CR_STRT.
The machine.reset() could be removed because it no longer crashes now that
the flash unlock is fixed.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This commit adds a script that can be run on-device to install FUS and WS
binaries from the filesystem. Instructions for use are provided in
the rfcore_firmware.py file.
The commit also removes unneeded functionality from the existing rfcore.py
debug script (and renames it rfcore_debug.py).
The new functions provide FUS/WS status, version and SYS HCI commands:
- stm.rfcore_status()
- stm.rfcore_fw_version(fw_id)
- stm.rfcore_sys_hci(ogf, ocf, cmd)
Changes are:
- Fix missing IRQ handler when SDMMC2 is used instead of SDMMC1 with H7
MCUs.
- Removed outdated H7 series compatibility macros.
- Defined common IRQ handler macro for F4 series.
It requires mp_hal_time_ns() to be provided by a port. This function
allows very accurate absolute timestamps.
Enabled on unix, windows, stm32, esp8266 and esp32.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
With a warning that this way of constructing software I2C/SPI is
deprecated. The check and warning will be removed in a future release.
This should help existing code to migrate to the new SoftI2C/SoftSPI types.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Previous commits removed the ability for one I2C/SPI constructor to
construct both software- or hardware-based peripheral instances. Such
construction is now split to explicit soft and non-soft types.
This commit makes both types available in all ports that previously could
create both software and hardware peripherals: machine.I2C and machine.SPI
construct hardware instances, while machine.SoftI2C and machine.SoftSPI
create software instances.
This is a breaking change for use of software-based I2C and SPI. Code that
constructed I2C/SPI peripherals in the following way will need to be
changed:
machine.I2C(-1, ...) -> machine.SoftI2C(...)
machine.I2C(scl=scl, sda=sda) -> machine.SoftI2C(scl=scl, sda=sda)
machine.SPI(-1, ...) -> machine.SoftSPI(...)
machine.SPI(sck=sck, mosi=mosi, miso=miso)
-> machine.SoftSPI(sck=sck, mosi=mosi, miso=miso)
Code which uses machine.I2C and machine.SPI classes to access hardware
peripherals does not need to change.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
The SoftSPI constructor is now used soley to create SoftSPI instances, it
can no longer delegate to create a hardware-based SPI instance.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
The SoftI2C constructor is now used soley to create SoftI2C instances, it
can no longer delegate to create a hardware-based I2C instance.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Also rename machine_i2c_type to mp_machine_soft_i2c_type. These changes
make it clear that it's a soft-I2C implementation, and match SoftSPI.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
The device info table has a different layout when core 2 is in FUS mode.
In particular it's larger than the 32 bytes used when in WS mode and if the
correct amount of space is not allocated then the end of the table may be
overwritten with other data (eg with FUS version 0.5.3). So update the
structure to fix this.
Also update rfcore.py to disable IRQs (which are enabled by rfcore.c), to
not depend on uctypes, and to not require the asm_thumb emitter.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
For time-based functions that work with absolute time there is the need for
an Epoch, to set the zero-point at which the absolute time starts counting.
Such functions include time.time() and filesystem stat return values. And
different ports may use a different Epoch.
To make it clearer what functions use the Epoch (whatever it may be), and
make the ports more consistent with their use of the Epoch, this commit
renames all Epoch related functions to include the word "epoch" in their
name (and remove references to "2000").
Along with this rename, the following things have changed:
- mp_hal_time_ns() is now specified to return the number of nanoseconds
since the Epoch, rather than since 1970 (but since this is an internal
function it doesn't change anything for the user).
- littlefs timestamps on the esp8266 have been fixed (they were previously
off by 30 years in nanoseconds).
Otherwise, there is no functional change made by this commit.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
To portably get the Epoch. This is simply aliased to localtime() on ports
that are not timezone aware.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This allows prototyping rfcore.c improvements from Python.
This was mostly written by @dpgeorge with small modifications to work after
rfcore_init() by @jimmo.
Before this change there was up to a 128ms delay on incoming payloads from
CPU2 as it was polled by SysTick. Now the RX IRQ immediately schedules the
PendSV.
This is required to allow using WS firmware newer than 1.1.1 concurrently
with USB (e.g. USB VCP). It prevents CPU2 from modifying the CLK48 config
on boot.
Tested on WS=1.8 FUS=1.1.
See AN5289 and https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/6316
- Split tables and buffers into SRAM2A/2B.
- Use structs rather than word offsets to access tables.
- Use FLASH_IPCCDBA register value rather than option bytes directly.
Previously the interaction between the different layers of the Bluetooth
stack was different on each port and each stack. This commit defines
common interfaces between them and implements them for cyw43, btstack,
nimble, stm32, unix.
mp_irq_init() is useful when the IRQ object is allocated by the caller.
The mp_irq_methods_t.init method is not used anywhere so has been removed.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Updating to Black v20.8b1 there are two changes that affect the code in
this repository:
- If there is a trailing comma in a list (eg [], () or function call) then
that list is now written out with one line per element. So remove such
trailing commas where the list should stay on one line.
- Spaces at the start of """ doc strings are removed.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Prior to this commit, if you configure a pin as an output type (I2C in this
example) and then later configure it back as an input, then it will report
the type incorrectly. Example:
>>> import machine
>>> b6 = machine.Pin('B6')
>>> b6
Pin(Pin.cpu.B6, mode=Pin.IN)
>>> machine.I2C(1)
I2C(1, scl=B6, sda=B7, freq=420000)
>>> b6
Pin(Pin.cpu.B6, mode=Pin.ALT_OPEN_DRAIN, pull=Pin.PULL_UP, af=Pin.AF4_I2C1)
>>> b6.init(machine.Pin.IN)
>>> b6
Pin(Pin.cpu.B6, mode=Pin.ALT_OPEN_DRAIN, af=Pin.AF4_I2C1)
With this commit the last print now works:
>>> b6
Pin(Pin.cpu.B6, mode=Pin.IN)
The SCSI driver calls GetCapacity to get the block size and number of
blocks of the underlying block-device/LUN. It caches these values and uses
them later on to verify that reads/writes are within the bounds of the LUN.
But, prior to this commit, there was only one set of cached values for all
LUNs, so the bounds checking for a LUN could use incorrect values, values
from one of the other LUNs that most recently updated the cached values.
This would lead to failed SCSI requests.
This commit fixes this issue by having separate cached values for each LUN.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This code is imported from musl, to match existing code in libm_dbl.
The file is also added to the build in stm32/Makefile. It's not needed by
the core code but, similar to c5cc64175b,
allows round() to be used by user C modules or board extensions.
Polling mode will cause failures with the mass-erase command due to USB
timeouts, because the USB IRQs are not being serviced. Swiching from
polling to IRQ mode fixes this because the USB IRQs can be serviced between
page erases.
Note that when the flash is being programmed or erased the MCU is halted
and cannot respond to USB IRQs, because mboot runs from flash, as opposed
to the built-in bootloader which is in system ROM. But the maximum delay
in responding to an IRQ is the time taken to erase a single page, about
100ms for large pages, and that is short enough that the USB does not
timeout on the host side.
Recent tests have shown that in the current mboot code IRQ mode is pretty
much the same speed as polling mode (within timing error), code size is
slightly reduced in IRQ mode, and IRQ mode idles at about half of the power
consumption as polling mode.
This is treated more like a "delay before continuing" in the spec and
official tools and does not appear to be really needed. In particular,
downloading firmware is much slower with non-zero timeouts because the host
must pause by the timeout between sending each DFU_GETSTATUS to poll for
download/erase complete.
The implementation internally uses sector erase to wipe everything except
the sector(s) that mboot lives in (by erasing starting from
APPLICATION_ADDR).
The erase command can take some time (eg an STM32F765 with 2MB of flash
takes 8 to 10 seconds). This time is normally enough to make pydfu.py fail
with a timeout. The DFU standard includes a mechanism for the DFU device
to request a longer timeout as part of the get-status response just before
starting an operation. This timeout functionality has been implemented
here.