8bda61a3af
This commit performs a few minor changes to the structures used to store
board pin information, in order to reduce the impact on the .rodata
section of the firmware of instances of those structures.
The data type used to store the QSTR name of alternate function pins
("machine_pin_af_obj_t") is changed from "qstr" to "qstr_short_t", that
is able to store the same name string index but in half the size.
Regular pin objects structure ("machine_pin_obj_t") instead has its QSTR
variable holder changed from "qstr" to "qstr_short_t", and some elements
of that structure have been rearranged to remove enough padding bytes
inside structure elements to let the linker allocate less data for
instances of that structure.
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Gatti <a.gatti@frob.it>
Port of MicroPython to NXP iMX RT 10xx
Currently supports Teensy 4.0, Teensy 4.1, and the MIMXRT1010_EVK, MIMXRT1020_EVK, MIMXRT1050_EVK, MIMXRT1060_EVK and MIMXRT1064_EVK boards.
Features:
- REPL over USB VCP
- machine.ADC
- machine.I2C
- machine.LED
- machine.Pin
- machine.PWM
- machine.RTC
- machine.SDCard
- machine.SPI
- machine.Signal
- machine.SoftI2C
- machine.SoftSPI
- machine.Timer
- machine.UART
- LFS2 file system at the internal Flash
- SDCard support (not on MIMXRT1010_EVK)
- Ethernet (not on Teensy 4.0 and MIMXRT1010_EVK)
Known issues:
TODO:
- More peripherals (Counter, I2S, CAN, etc)
- More Python options
Build Instructions
Before building the firmware for a given board the MicroPython cross-compiler must be built; it will be used to pre-compile some of the built-in scripts to bytecode. The cross-compiler is built and run on the host machine, using:
$ make -C mpy-cross
This command should be executed from the root directory of this repository. All other commands below should be executed from the ports/mimxrt/ directory.
An ARM compiler is required for the build, along with the associated binary
utilities. The default compiler is arm-none-eabi-gcc, which is available for
Arch Linux via the package arm-none-eabi-gcc, for Ubuntu via instructions
here, or
see here for the main GCC ARM
Embedded page. The compiler can be changed using the CROSS_COMPILE variable
when invoking make.
In addition newlib is required which is available for Arch Linux via the
package arm-none-eabi-newlib, for Ubuntu/Debian install package libnewlib-arm-none-eabi
Next, the board to build must be selected. Any of the board names of the
subdirectories in the boards/ directory is a valid board. The board name
must be passed as the argument to BOARD= when invoking make.
All boards require certain submodules to be obtained before they can be built.
The correct set of submodules can be initialised using (with SEEED_ARCH_MIX
as an example of the selected board):
$ make BOARD=SEEED_ARCH_MIX submodules
Then to build the board's firmware run:
$ make BOARD=SEEED_ARCH_MIX
The above command should produce binary images in the build-SEEED_ARCH_MIX/
subdirectory (or the equivalent directory for the board specified).
Flashing
Deploy the firmware following the instructions here https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/mimxrt/tutorial/intro.html#deploying-the-firmware