Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread Kevin Witteveen
Hi Tomek, Ugh, so full automation is not really possible without that boot > button interaction? Didn't rPI consider UART control lines to drive > boot input just as ESP32 chips does so esptool can reset and switch to > bootrom on its own? :-) Oh, actually it is! PlatformIO has some tools that op

Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM Kevin Witteveen wrote: > Hi Tomek, > Thank you for your amazing response. Very detailed! > I am happy to hear that this issue is being taken seriously and that NuttX > is very aware of what is happening. Yes, this is especially important issue for SME and one-man-a

Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread Tomek CEDRO
There are several solutions here and problems :-) 1. We require now that person that provides the patch provides a proof it is working and does not break stuff on several targets. So the patches should be well tested by the author in the first place. 2. When breaking change is detected by anyone

Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread Kevin Witteveen
Hi Tomek, Thank you for your amazing response. Very detailed! I am happy to hear that this issue is being taken seriously and that NuttX is very aware of what is happening. --- My test farm idea --- NXDART sounds very interesting! I always wanted to see an automatic hardware test farm. I guess i

Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread vinicius may
Maybe we can create a basic sanity test for each new board and or new delivered feature, in order to prove the system instability before accepting the patch. The question is: how?! I mean, I have just a few boards but maybe everyone could help. I can help to run the tests at least with the boards I

Re: Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread Tomek CEDRO
Hello Kevin! Thank you, that feedback is much appreciated! We all noticed quality / reliability / self-compatibility degradation in recent months, other users/developers reported that too, we are sorry for that, we are working to improve things! There are some steps we did to prevent that happeni

Concerned about NuttX recent reliability after multiple boards having problems

2025-04-26 Thread Kevin Witteveen
Hi NuttX, About a year ago, I started experimenting with NuttX on my RP2040 raspberry pi pico board. It was a really interesting alternative to FreeRTOS or Zephyr. However, it wasn’t until a few months ago that I started actively working on NuttX. I made some drivers and interfaces for NuttX, howe

Re: RFC - AVR fixes and support for AVR DA/DB family

2025-04-26 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM Alan C. Assis wrote: > (..) > KR, I have no words to say about this great work you did. > Although your initial plan was to make NuttX on AVRDB useful for hobbyists, > I'm sure it could be useful for companies as well. > BR, > Alan Thank you Alan and Raman!! :-) -

Re: RFC - AVR fixes and support for AVR DA/DB family

2025-04-26 Thread Alan C. Assis
Hi KR, On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to submit some patches for review and comments. The overall > goal is to provide support for AVR DA/DB family of chips but some of the > patches are more generic - fixes in other AVR chips and some typofixes > elsewhere. > >