As with the last commit this rolls up the follwowing, but include the various
review comments on the PR.
- **Documentation changes**. I've added the taks FAQ as a stub new Extension
developer FAQ, and split the old FAQ into a Lua Developer FAQ and a Hardware
FAQ.
- **Tasking I/F**. New `app/task/Makefile`, `app/task/task.c`,
`app/include/task/task.h` and `app/Makefile` as per previous commit. Cascade
changes to `app/driver/uart.c`, `app/include/driver/uart.h`,
`app/user/user_main.c` and `app/modules/node.c`
- **GPIO Rework** to `app/modules/gpio.c` and `pin_map.[hc]`, `platform.[hc]`
in `app/platform`
- **Other Optimisations** Move the `platform_*_exists()` from
`app/platform/common.c` to static inline declarations in `platform.h` as
this generates faster, smaller code. Move lgc.a routines out of iram0.
This addresses the issue where a server would otherwise reject a valid
connection attempt from a rebooted node, due to the server thinking that
packet belonged to a recently closed session. By starting off the local
TCP port numbers at random* points each boot the risk of port reuse
across a reboot is significantly reduced.
*) As random as can be had via the lower 12 bits of the ccounter.
Added Lua module rtctime to interface with it.
This keeps as accurate time as is possible on the ESP8266, including across
deep sleeps (provided rtctime.dsleep() is used rather than node.dsleep()).
Intended to be used together with NTP for high accuracy time keeping. The
API is via rtctime.{get,set}timeofday(), working from Unix epoch.
Note that 160MHz CPU clock is not currently supported by the rtctime code,
as it is only aware of the 52MHz boot clock and the regular 80Mhz default
clock.
See rtctime.h for detailed info on how this all works.
Accessing 8bit and 16bit constants from ROM rather than RAM comes with a
performance cost, as these loads go through the load/store exception
vector. Any performance critical constants can be forced back into RAM
as RAM_CONST_ATTR.
The entry point has changed from call_user_start() to user_start_trampoline()
in order for the exception handler to be installed early enough.
TerryE
Johny Mattsson
Johny Mattsson
Jonathan karras
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