Re: Make nxboot img_header public?

2025-04-30 Thread Tim Hardisty
On 30/04/2025 16:36, Karel Kočí wrote: There are actually two ways. One for just application, but you probably know that (`openlog("", LOG_PERROR, LOG_USER)`) openlog is not supported in NuttX it seems. Sigh.

Re: Make nxboot img_header public?

2025-04-30 Thread Tim Hardisty
On 30/04/2025 16:36, Karel Kočí wrote: On Wed 30 Apr 2025 03:45:36 PM , Tim Hardisty wrote: I think that this system already exists and is the syslog. I cannot find anywhere to configure NuttX syslog to send output to stdout or stderr ...configure system itself to send syslog output

Re: Make nxboot img_header public?

2025-04-30 Thread Tim Hardisty
See inline. On 30/04/2025 14:26, Karel Kočí wrote: Hi, On Wed 30 Apr 2025 12:19:02 PM , Tim Hardisty wrote: 5. One issue I have with NXboot is lack of printf-type error/info messages I think that this system already exists and is the syslog. I cannot find

Re: Make nxboot img_header public?

2025-04-30 Thread Tim Hardisty
Thanks Karel. See below, inline. On 30/04/2025 11:06, Karel Kočí wrote: 4. MCUboot - for example - does the copy to RAM itself so, as has been suggested, it would be good if NXboot gains this too. It will need the destination RAM address for this which could: * either be via

Re: Make nxboot img_header public?

2025-04-30 Thread Tim Hardisty
c setting. Need to make sure it is backwards compatible though. On 29/04/2025 22:17, Tim Hardisty wrote: I believe I am over-thinking this and genuinely appreciate your input. I will sleep on this and think again tomorrow. Thanks! On 29 Apr 2025, at 21:23, Karel Kočí wrote: On Tue 29 Apr 2025 08:

Re: Make nxboot img_header public?

2025-04-29 Thread Tim Hardisty
I believe I am over-thinking this and genuinely appreciate your input. I will sleep on this and think again tomorrow. Thanks! > On 29 Apr 2025, at 21:23, Karel Kočí wrote: > > On Tue 29 Apr 2025 08:45:11 PM , Tim Hardisty wrote: >> >> The structures are available in t

Re: Make nxboot img_header public?

2025-04-29 Thread Tim Hardisty
etter thing. But I don't know how generic that could be, across many many architectures. I'll have to ponder that - took me a while to get the right assembly code for my arch (SAMA5D2). I may need to think laterally here! On 29/04/2025 20:24, Michal Lenc wrote: Hi Tim, If I remembe

Make nxboot img_header public?

2025-04-29 Thread Tim Hardisty
I am adding enhancements to my custom image booting software (that copies the image from flash to internal SDRAM). As part of that I would like, via PR, to expose /struct nxboot_img_header/ and it's associated /struct nxboot_hdr_version/ and /struct nxboot_img_version/ via a public header file

Re: Discuss NXBoot

2025-03-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
Out of interest, I took a 800x480 png (that I currently use as a splashscreen): * png size: 56KiB * C file, using LVGL image converter: 5.4MiB Eek! On 28/03/2025 13:06, Nathan Hartman wrote: Replying inline below: On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM Tim Hardisty wrote: Hi Nathan, Thanks

Re: Discuss NXBoot

2025-03-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
that bottoms out. Thank you, Tim. On 27/03/2025 19:12, Tim Hardisty wrote: Thanks for joining in the conversation Pavel. I currently have my INIT_ENTRYPOINT set to the (new) fbcon example app, so any stdout and stderr output appear on the framebuffer LCD, and that then calls NXboot to load my app

Re: Discuss NXBoot

2025-03-27 Thread Tim Hardisty
en enabled (if wanted) WDYT ;-) On 27/03/2025 18:43, Nathan Hartman wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM Alan C. Assis wrote: Hi Tim, Yes, maybe it could be an option inside your fbcon app. My initial thought was that having a nxlogo inside the kernel (like Linux) could make it avail

Re: Discuss NXBoot

2025-03-27 Thread Tim Hardisty
way is another point I make. I could copy nxboot_main and create my own version (as you suggest) but that makes it non-std, hence suggesting modifying the current NXboot to have the option to call a user error task/app. On 27/03/2025 18:11, Pavel Pisa wrote: Hello Tim and Alan, I think that spl

Re: Discuss NXBoot

2025-03-27 Thread Tim Hardisty
n my "main" custom app. On balance, I'm thinking FBCON. Also:i f we wanted to do something "fancy" on multi-cpu architectures, what are the relevant system calls to get the number of cores? On 24/03/2025 19:38, Alan C. Assis wrote: Hi Tim, Yes, these suggestions mak

Re: Discuss NXBoot

2025-03-25 Thread Tim Hardisty
I think I’ll leave that for someone with more experience… and time! This could be raised as a specific issue on GitHub if someone could take the time to do that and capture the details? I can do quick win fixes as they benefit me and hopefully others too :-) Regards, Tim. > On 25 Mar 2

Discuss NXBoot

2025-03-24 Thread Tim Hardisty
I am just starting to use NXboot (having migrated from Uboot, then to MCUboot, and finally settled on NXboot) and I'm wondering whether it would benefit from some changes and/or enhancements now I've used all three. Thoughts, observations, suggestions welcomed. In no particular order: 1. Uboo

Re: Any VT100 and/or NSH Console experts?

2025-03-12 Thread Tim Hardisty
Thanks Greg. I have allowed myself to get carried away I think. * I wanted stdout and stderr to render on a FB to display basic messages during bootloading (MCUboot) * There were FBtext examples but not quite what I wanted * There is LVGLterm - again, not quite what I wanted but food for th

Re: Any VT100 and/or NSH Console experts?

2025-03-12 Thread Tim Hardisty
ll look into it. For now, the remaining issue I have to solved is the decoding of the VT100_CURSORL(n) and once I have that cracked I will submit a PR and we can discuss it there too. On 12/03/2025 13:14, Alan C. Assis wrote: Hi Tim, About your progress with fbcon, just realized you c

Re: Any VT100 and/or NSH Console experts?

2025-03-08 Thread Tim Hardisty
full blown console...much like nxterm but without the need of the nx server etc. On 08/03/2025 16:50, Alan C. Assis wrote: Hi Tim, Could you please try to run: "ls -l | hexdump" It could show if the '\n' is received correctly. BR, Alan On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 3:47 

Any VT100 and/or NSH Console experts?

2025-03-07 Thread Tim Hardisty
I am writing a Framebuffer console app that takes stdout and stderr and renders the text to a framebuffer device. Based on existing NXGL code and example apps. It spawns NSH, and I get the NSH prompt on my LCD - and it basically works. I have also added functions to decode the handful of VT100

Re: [VOTE] ROUND2 NuttX Contributing Guidelines update 202502.

2025-02-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
S unclear how to vote. Reply to any reply? With different formatting and (mis)quotes? So i will not quote and you can sort it out I hope!! TimH: +1 to all - on the basis that if this doesn't work out quite right it will be reviewed and changed. Best to try something like this than not - it

RE: Re: [VOTE] ROUND2 NuttX Contributing Guidelines update 202502.

2025-02-27 Thread Tim Kan
Hi, Voting again (my previous e-mail was discarded in the voting process): 1. Contributing Guidelines with hints for Reviewers. > We are adding additional section for Reviewers to Contributing > Guidelines in order to provide checklist and complementary set of > rules that should filter out break

Re: [Vote] NuttX LTS release

2025-02-26 Thread Tim Hardisty
I was only skim reading the discussions on LTS, so probably missed detailed descriptions/conclusion of the LTS proposal. It seems a great idea but @raiden00pl makes a valid point I think? This is a vote for 13.0.0 which is an LTS candidate I would imagine. Once out in the wild, any fixes (not

Re: FB console/terminal

2025-02-17 Thread Tim Hardisty
ut only mode when no input is required > :-) Input would require serial port like transport, keyboard, or > on-screen keyboard that makes things a bit more complicated :-) > Tomek > >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM Tim Hardisty wrote: >> >> Just thinking out

Re: FB console/terminal

2025-02-17 Thread Tim Hardisty
Assis wrote: Hi Tim, I think there is not a framebuffer text in place for NuttX, but you can use the code to handle text fonts from nx graphics to render the text directly in the framebuffer. For Linux some years ago I used fbtext https://sourceforge.net/projects/fbtext/ to print a message from init

Re: FB console/terminal

2025-02-16 Thread Tim Hardisty
Thanks Alan - I'll see if I can find nx graphics code to repurpose and, if not immediately obviously, I'm sure there's code out there, such the fbtext tool you linked to. On 16/02/2025 10:45, Alan C. Assis wrote: Hi Tim, I think there is not a framebuffer text in place for Nut

Re: FB console/terminal

2025-02-15 Thread Tim Hardisty
What is efficient solution to just do text though? > On 15 Feb 2025, at 13:42, Alan C. Assis wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > You can create a NuttX application with LVGL and display your message or > image. > > Actually you don't need to use a graphic library if yo

FB console/terminal

2025-02-15 Thread Tim Hardisty
Hello NuttX Colleagues! During MCUboot I want to display text messages on the framebuffer LCD driver (/dev/fb). This could either be via a FB console (useful for other reasons) or a FB terminal, or something else. I also quite like the idea of my main graphics app - LVGL based - having a con

Re: Regarding bmi270

2025-02-13 Thread Tim Hardisty
old sensors it's not possible to create portable applications. The new sensor framework solves this problem. Its main disadvantage currently is operating on float data, in the future fixed-point math should be also supported for MCU without FPU. czw., 13 lut 2025 o 16:46 Tim Hardisty napisał

Re: Regarding bmi270

2025-02-13 Thread Tim Hardisty
gt; Good question Tim, > > Ideally all sensors should have char device and uorb support, but I don't > think we have this rule. > > Recently a driver was converted from char device to uorb, so for driver > that are uorb only, you have to use uORB sensortest application. > &

Re: bin/ELF headers

2025-02-13 Thread Tim Hardisty
point! On 13/02/2025 00:12, Lwazi Dube wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 at 13:10, Tim Hardisty wrote: Thanks Lwazi and Peter. By examining the data in the NuttX binary I have tentatively concluded that the binary, as stored as an MCUboot signed bootable image: * Has the 32 byte MCUboot header.

Re: Regarding bmi270

2025-02-12 Thread Tim Hardisty
Ah - so something you choose to use or not? But still we'll have "traditional" drivers for new sensors as they're added? On 12/02/2025 19:29, Alan C. Assis wrote: Hi Tim, It came from PX4 and how it is used for our sensors. BR, Alan On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM Tim H

Re: Regarding bmi270

2025-02-12 Thread Tim Hardisty
Is uORB really just a PX4 thing? Not NuttX? Or did NuttX adopt uORB too and I missed it? Just curious :-) On 12/02/2025 18:51, Alan C. Assis wrote: Hi Yashvi, BMI270 uses uORB, you need to use sensortest (CONFIG_SYSTEM_SENSORTEST) Just verify if the sensor was created correctly at /dev/uorb/

Re: bin/ELF headers

2025-02-12 Thread Tim Hardisty
e also been in dialogue with Microchip tech support who are helpful and willing, but I've not got the definitive from them as yet. I will update them with my current thinking and see what they say! On 11/02/2025 23:58, Peter Barada wrote: Tim, Common across bulk of ARM processors, the vector

bin/ELF headers

2025-02-11 Thread Tim Hardisty
Hello all. I'm trying to understand the "header" bytes of a NuttX .bin file (ELF?), so I can try and locate and use the ARM Cortex A (SAMA5D2) reset and stack pointer vectors in an MCUboot image. It seems that there are 32 bytes (after the MCUboot header) of a repeating pattern (0xe59ff018)

Re: [DRUNX] Distributed Runtime and bUild for NuttX

2025-02-06 Thread Tim Hardisty
I have: * SAMA5D2 (Arm Cortex-A) Xplained EV board * SAMA5D27-SOM1 EV board * Custom board with SAMA5D27C-1G (128Mybte SDRAM) with TFT+TS, NOR flash, SPI peripherals, I2C peripherals, USB, GPIO. All using NuttX drivers. I need to finish the project I'm on (which is still a few months' w

Re: Any MCUboot experts?

2025-02-01 Thread Tim Hardisty
7;m sure I can get there! On 31/01/2025 22:44, Petro Karashchenko wrote: Hi Tim, I need to look into MCUboot loading strategies since in my case I was executing from an internal flash drive, so there was no copying of the image to RAM. In general MCUboot expects an image to have a proper header

Re: Any MCUboot experts?

2025-01-31 Thread Tim Hardisty
that myself. It is really geared to Linux and not my cup of tea!! On 31/01/2025 15:14, Petro Karashchenko wrote: Hello Tim, Some time ago I was adding MCUboot support for SAMv7 family that should be pretty similar to your system. If you can give some more description of your use case: RAM and RO

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2025-01-31 Thread Tim Hardisty
A5D2 reference boards (that I have a couple of) in the repo so the information is captured for posterity! The "why" is that Uboot has little if anything in the way of easy-to-use A/B image swapping with reversion so I would have to code that myself. It is really geared to Linux and no

Re: Any MCUboot experts?

2025-01-29 Thread Tim Hardisty
uot;...until now lol. Thanks, TimH. On 29/01/2025 02:46, Lwazi Dube wrote: On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 at 13:30, Tim Hardisty wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get MCUboot to work on my custom board with a SAMA5D2 (Arm V7A) and after a lot of battles am nearly there. I can boot into MCUboot stored in f

Any MCUboot experts?

2025-01-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
Hi all, I am trying to get MCUboot to work on my custom board with a SAMA5D2 (Arm V7A) and after a lot of battles am nearly there. I can boot into MCUboot stored in flash, and I can also download/debug it. MCUboot is happy enough with my firmware images to call my board's "board_boot-image"

Re: FAT FS on mtd partition of NOR flash

2024-11-01 Thread Tim Hardisty
depends on how much RAM my app ends up needing. > On 1 Nov 2024, at 15:12, Xiang Xiao wrote: > > it mayn't work as you expect. FatFS updates some fixed location very > frequently, your flash device may stop working after you make ten thousand > changes. > > On Fri, Nov 1, 20

Re: FAT FS on mtd partition of NOR flash

2024-11-01 Thread Tim hardisty
lable to use in bringup code as I understand it otherwise I would mount the FS in my bringup too. On 01/11/2024 02:07, Xiang Xiao wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 2:00 AM Tim Hardisty wrote: Whilst FAT on a NOR flash may generally be seen a not such a great idea...please ignore that and confirm if.

Re: FAT FS on mtd partition of NOR flash

2024-10-31 Thread Tim Hardisty
ote: > > You can put it here: > > https://nuttx.apache.org/docs/latest/guides/index.html > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 4:57 PM Tim Hardisty > wrote: > >> Is there a documentation section that might be good for mini case-studies? >> I can imagine this being a pl

Re: FAT FS on mtd partition of NOR flash

2024-10-31 Thread Tim Hardisty
4:36 PM Nathan Hartman > wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 2:51 PM Alan C. Assis wrote: >> >>> Hi Tim, >>> >>> It would be nice if you can write down the steps you took, if you have a >>> blog to document it. >> >> >>

Re: FAT FS on mtd partition of NOR flash

2024-10-31 Thread Tim Hardisty
t 2:51 PM Alan C. Assis wrote: > >> Hi Tim, >> >> It would be nice if you can write down the steps you took, if you have a >> blog to document it. > > > > Or put it directly in NuttX's Documentation. It will be helpful for others! > > Mayb

Re: FAT FS on mtd partition of NOR flash

2024-10-31 Thread Tim Hardisty
surprisingly my GD55 driver is based on existing code!). > On 31 Oct 2024, at 18:49, Alan C. Assis wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > It would be nice if you can write down the steps you took, if you have a > blog to document it. > > Why do you need a partition with LittleFS and a

Re: FAT FS on mtd partition of NOR flash

2024-10-31 Thread Tim Hardisty
bloat.. maybe no mapping is even necessary just provide address and size and use littlefs over there :-) Hope that helps somehow :-P Tomek On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 7:37 PM Tim Hardisty wrote: A typo maybe? What do you mean by a “while” disk, please? On 30 Oct 2024, at 18:33, Tomek CEDRO wrote:

Re: FAT FS on mtd partition of NOR flash

2024-10-30 Thread Tim Hardisty
A typo maybe? What do you mean by a “while” disk, please? > On 30 Oct 2024, at 18:33, Tomek CEDRO wrote: > > how about creating a while disk at memory offset? :-) > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 11:58 Tim Hardisty wrote:

Re: FAT FS on mtd partition of NOR flash

2024-10-30 Thread Tim Hardisty
-) > > Are you sure that partition table is okay and you are formatting / > mounting the correct partition? :-) > > Tomek > > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 7:00 PM Tim Hardisty wrote: >> >> Whilst FAT on a NOR flash may generally be seen a not such a great >> idea

FAT FS on mtd partition of NOR flash

2024-10-29 Thread Tim Hardisty
Whilst FAT on a NOR flash may generally be seen a not such a great idea...please ignore that and confirm if... ...I am right in deducing that I can't simply make a FAT file system on (say) the third mtd partition (with 512 byte sector emulation) (partitions 0, 1 and 2 are "raw" data) since FAT

Re: Power safe file systems for NuttX

2024-10-18 Thread Tim Hardisty
GigaDevice GD55 NOR flash, up to 4Gbit. I use a 1Gbit variant and am just writing the driver for it. Would expect LittleFS will work on it, and I can try it once driver is working, next week hopefully. > On 18 Oct 2024, at 15:19, Matteo Golin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Matteo from InS

UnionFS: >2 bindings?

2024-10-17 Thread Tim Hardisty
I am looking at a way to expose 3x on-board MTD NOR flash and an EEPROM device (2 formatted with LittleFS and the larger NOR flash probably with FAT) to users so they can download log files, upload new firmware for MCUboot to use, or customization files etc. This will probably be via USBMSD (he

Re: NuttX "gadget": resolve its host name via CDC/NCM connection

2024-10-09 Thread Tim Hardisty
han Hartman wrote: > > Isn't there Bonjour/Avahi that can make something like this work on a > local network, at least when accessed from a computer that supports > Bonjour/Avahi? I think this is how printers are automatically > discovered on a network. > > On Wed, Oct 9,

Re: NuttX "gadget": resolve its host name via CDC/NCM connection

2024-10-09 Thread Tim Hardisty
02:04, Tim Hardisty wrote: Not a NuttX question, as such, more a basic embedded device networking question. But you’re all so helpful, and it’s NuttX things I need to do this :-) I have just tried the recently added CDC/NCM USB networking and it works very nicely. Coupled with DHCPD, I can have

Re: NuttX "gadget": resolve its host name via CDC/NCM connection

2024-10-09 Thread Tim Hardisty
: On Oct 8, 2024, at 12:56 PM, Tim Hardisty wrote: Not a NuttX question, as such, more a basic embedded device networking question. But you’re all so helpful, and it’s NuttX things I need to do this :-) I have just tried the recently added CDC/NCM USB networking and it works very nicely. Coupled wi

Re: NuttX "gadget": resolve its host name via CDC/NCM connection

2024-10-09 Thread Tim Hardisty
Sent from my Galaxy Original message From:michal.lyszc...@bofc.pl Date: 10/8/24 11:01 PM (GMT-06:00) To:dev@nuttx.apache.org Subject: Re: NuttX "gadget": resolve its host name via CDC/NCM connection On 2024-10-08 20:56:00, Tim Hardisty wrote:> My intention is to

NuttX "gadget": resolve its host name via CDC/NCM connection

2024-10-08 Thread Tim Hardisty
Not a NuttX question, as such, more a basic embedded device networking question. But you’re all so helpful, and it’s NuttX things I need to do this :-) I have just tried the recently added CDC/NCM USB networking and it works very nicely. Coupled with DHCPD, I can have a PC (Windows or Linux; not

Re: [VOTE] Apache NuttX 12.7.0 RC0 release

2024-10-07 Thread Tim Hardisty
tX (master) and LVGL 9.2. The file linked to is an MP4 shared from my own NAS so hopefully the link works. http://gofile.me/2MJqt/dBf6BZgKj Regards, Tim. On 07/10/2024 14:23, Tomek CEDRO wrote: Thank you Tim could you please pinpoint the issue with LCD / FB? Anyone with that hardware he

Re: [VOTE] Apache NuttX 12.7.0 RC0 release

2024-10-07 Thread Tim Hardisty
ll want to create a reliable solution that works out of the box with no surprises right? :-) Have a good day folks :-) Tomek On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 11:11 AM Tim Hardisty wrote: FYI you can no longer change LVGL version from Kconfig AFAIK, but you can force the use of any version you want by check

Re: [VOTE] Apache NuttX 12.7.0 RC0 release

2024-10-05 Thread Tim Hardisty
Oct 2024, at 10:56, Alin Jerpelea wrote: > > @Tim and Tomek > > My bad ! We are using 9.1.0 for 12.7.0 release > I was looking on an older branch . A simple PR will fix it after LVGL is > release > > Best regards > Alin > > >> On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 10

Re: [VOTE] Apache NuttX 12.7.0 RC0 release

2024-10-05 Thread Tim Hardisty
12.7 should be using LVGL 9.1. 9.1 has a specific frame buffer problem fixed in 9.2. I have a custom SAMA5D2 board with an LCD running NuttX master and LVGL 9.2 and I will try the RC on Monday. > On 5 Oct 2024, at 10:33, Alin Jerpelea wrote: > > Hi Tomek, > Thanks for testing and providing f

Re: [VOTE] Apache NuttX 12.7.0 RC0 release

2024-10-04 Thread Tim Hardisty
I have had lots of issues with LVGL 9.1 as used in NuttX, but on SAMA5D2. The framebuffer was being rendered to directly causing tearing. I have also seen LVGL repo issues relating to STM32, I think. LVGL V9.2 fixes my issues. Don’t necessarily assume it’s a board fault! Regards, Time > On 4

Re: Github Issue Labels

2024-07-21 Thread Tim Hardisty
+1 from me!! On 21/07/2024 00:55, Daniel Appiagyei wrote: Hi, Is anyone opposed to: - creating more specific github issue labels, - encouraging everyone to use them, and - setting up permissions on github such that anyone that has contributed to the repo has the ability to add/remove labels? Th

Re: LVGL and LCD driver - SAMA5D2

2024-06-14 Thread Tim Hardisty
er as best as I can tell. I believe it needs a rework of the lvgl framebuffer driver - which is probably down to LVGL rather than NuttX people to sort; but I may see if I can create a custom driver using the LVGL guidelines for now. On 14/06/2024 11:13, Tim Hardisty wrote: Thank you Grego

Re: LVGL and LCD driver - SAMA5D2

2024-06-14 Thread Tim Hardisty
Thank you Gregory. I will read all of this and, so far, have skim read the first you linked to and now understand it a little better already and it confirms that the SAMA5D2 does indeed have a frame buffer interface, that I register in my board bringup (so longer ago I'd forgotten LOL) - but it

LVGL and LCD driver - SAMA5D2

2024-06-13 Thread Tim Hardisty
I need a "custom" lvgl fb interface of some sorts instead? Any examples? Thoughts and suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks, Tim

Re: [VOTE] Apache NuttX 12.5.1 RC0 release

2024-04-09 Thread Tim Hardisty
+1 non-binding. On my custom board: NuttX  12.5.1-RC0 3fcd063148 Apr  9 2024 16:22:37 arm jti-xxx arm-none-eabi-gcc -v Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib gcc version 13.2.1 20231009 (Arm GNU Toolchain 13.2.rel1 (Build arm-13.7)) On 09/04/2024 08:40, Alin Jerpelea wrote: Hello all,

Re: Run app when device starts

2024-03-18 Thread Tim Hardisty
make menuconfig RTOS Features ->Tasks and Scheduling -> Application entry point also RTOS Features ->Tasks and Scheduling ->Application Name On 18/03/2024 19:44, Gustavo Soares wrote: Hello! I've built an application to run on NuttX and I'd like to know if it's possible to make it start whe

Touchscreen calibration

2024-03-16 Thread Tim Hardisty
My board uses built-in SAMA5 TSD peripheral to interface with a resistive touchscreen on a 5" TFT. Early on I implemented (and had merged) an ioctl to allow the low level driver to scale the x/y data to match the display resolution but I am now finding it actually needs a multipoint calibration

Re: debugassert vs assert in apps

2024-01-08 Thread Tim Hardisty
Would a variation on this proposal be to add app-specific NXAPP_DEBUGASSERT etc.? This would then be "global" but unique to apps, not overlap with O/S DEBUGASSERTs, and make for a simpler global search/replace of current DEBUGASSERT in apps, and just need a one-off new set of entries in the app

Re: debugassert vs assert in apps

2024-01-04 Thread Tim Hardisty
If someone can post with a consensus/decision once there is one, it would be most useful! On 03/01/2024 17:35, Fotis Panagiotopoulos wrote: Just to be clear, I am always referring to the standard C assert() function/macro. Not the unconditional NuttX ASSERT() macro. Notice the capitalization!

Re: Correct way to manage LCD backlight brightness

2024-01-04 Thread Tim Hardisty
wrote: Hi Tim, AFAIK NuttX doesn't have a standard way to do it. It is normally done at board level (do a "git grep backlight" inside boards/ to see some examples). A proper way to do that should be implementing a backlight subsystem, like a subset of Linux backlight s

Correct way to manage LCD backlight brightness

2024-01-03 Thread Tim Hardisty
My SAMA5 board has an LCD with variable brightness (pwm controlled). arch/arm/src/chip/sam_lcd.c has a function called "sam_backlight) that takes a level value, but it appears to be local to that file, and the only call to it is in the LCD init functions in that file, complete with a comment t

Re: LittleFS Implementation using MTD for NOR flash

2023-12-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
n the mounted partition? > > Best Regards, > > Janardhan > > From: Tim Hardisty > Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2023 20:36 > To: dev@nuttx.apache.org > Subject: Re: LittleFS Implementation using MTD for NOR flash > > FYI - if you

Re: LittleFS Implementation using MTD for NOR flash

2023-12-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
gin with. > Aren't they supposed to be similar and autoprobing? > >> >> From: Tim Hardisty >> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2023 20:18 >> To: dev@nuttx.apache.org >> Subject: Re: LittleFS Implementation using MTD for NOR flash >

Re: LittleFS Implementation using MTD for NOR flash

2023-12-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
ards, Janardhan ____ From: Tim Hardisty Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2023 19:15 To:dev@nuttx.apache.org Subject: Re: LittleFS Implementation using MTD for NOR flash I have only ever used NuttX "directly" with my apps running over it rather than any other middleware or an

Re: LittleFS Implementation using MTD for NOR flash

2023-12-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
______ From: Tim Hardisty Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2023 19:15 To:dev@nuttx.apache.org Subject: Re: LittleFS Implementation using MTD for NOR flash I have only ever used NuttX "directly" with my apps running over it rather than any other middleware or anything, so I can't answe

Re: LittleFS Implementation using MTD for NOR flash

2023-12-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
2:12, Janardhan Silwal wrote: Hi, I am using MT25QL, 1Gbit series flash memory. Thanks for the template. Would running in this format over the middleware running over nuttx also follow the same approach? Best Regards, Janardhan ____ From: Tim Hardisty Sent: Thursday, De

Re: LittleFS Implementation using MTD for NOR flash

2023-12-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
Hi, What flash are you using out of interest? But, the basic approach (in or called from your board bringup for example) is: spi_flash= sam_spibus_initialize(PORT); /* this call is arch dependent */ if(!spi_flash) { /* Do something */ } #ifdefined(CONFIG_MTD_M25P) mtd = m25p_initialize(spi_f

Re: SPI EEPROM, losetup, LittleFS

2023-12-16 Thread Tim Hardisty
e a spi flash driver, and change its read/erase/write routines (and initialization) by copying code from a spi eeprom driver. Sebastien. Le 14/12/2023 à 19:13, Tim Hardisty a écrit : Question first, then explanation. How do I use losetup (which is what I think I need) with a character memory devic

SPI EEPROM, losetup, LittleFS

2023-12-14 Thread Tim Hardisty
Question first, then explanation. How do I use losetup (which is what I think I need) with a character memory device and mount an FS on it? SPI EEPROM and LittleFS specifically. Yes, it's a bad idea, probably, but I just want to have a play and lack of NuttX/POSIX/Linux knowledge has bitten m

debugassert vs assert in apps

2023-12-14 Thread Tim Hardisty
Hi, I'm wondering if there is an "approved" usage of assert vs debugassert for files/apps in the nuttx-apps repo? My thinking is: * use debugassert if a function in apps would only fail if the calling code, probably (or possibly only) if other functions within apps, rather than an unkn

Dumb question re: "full path", out of tree board

2023-11-23 Thread Tim Hardisty
Hi, I have an out-of-tree custom board (which lives resides in my main NuttX folder as  ./../CustomBoards/boardname). I use checkpatch.sh even on my board software in that locations as I like to be consistent, but it complains that the path (line 2 of the header comment) must begin with the r

Re: Code donation

2023-10-30 Thread Tim Hardisty
the latest changes. Functionality is identical. Only minor improvements and bug fixes are included in the latest commit. On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:06 PM Fotis Panagiotopoulos wrote: Hello Tim! Thank you for your interest in this. (I am replying in the list for the moment, in case anyone else is

Re: Code donation

2023-10-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
tively, you can have a look at the XML or JSON parsers, which are of general usefulness, and the porting effort would be very very minimal. Tim, Thank you for your interest in the settings storage. It is a very useful and versatile piece of software. In fact, I have used it in all my projects over the

Re: Queues

2023-10-19 Thread Tim Hardisty
> first, so the mechanism how do you want to ensure that messages are > transmitted with the chronological order is not clear to me, unless you use > a special version of the peripheral driver that uses a single TX buffer. > > Best regards, > Petro > > чт, 19 жовт. 2023 р.

Re: Queues

2023-10-19 Thread Tim Hardisty
single TX buffer. > > Best regards, > Petro > > чт, 19 жовт. 2023 р. о 22:35 Tim Hardisty пише: > >> Hello helpful people. I am not sure if this is a POSIX or NuttX >> question, so apologies it it's something I "should" know. >> >> I am

Queues

2023-10-19 Thread Tim Hardisty
Hello helpful people. I am not sure if this is a POSIX or NuttX question, so apologies it it's something I "should" know. I am looking for a methodology - ideally portable (POSIX) - perhaps a queue, to hold a list of messages (CANbus) that need to be transmitted in the correct chronological or

Video playback

2023-09-26 Thread Tim Hardisty
One of my many, no-doubt, dumb/inexperienced questions NuttX has nxplayer for audio, with support for .wav files etc. But... ...is there a native/built-in way of playing video files (.mp4 for example)? I know I can write a video file frame by frame, but hopefully I don't need to? Can't fin

Re: write method for audio driver?

2023-08-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
On 27/08/2023 23:53, Gregory Nutt wrote: On 8/27/2023 4:22 PM, Tim Hardisty wrote: The classD driver DOES register itself as /dev/audio/pcm0, and works correctly as such with nx_player. You are mistaken.  The Class D driver does not register itself as a character driver.  grep -r

Re: write method for audio driver?

2023-08-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
On 27/08/2023 23:56, Gregory Nutt wrote: On 8/27/2023 4:24 PM, Tim Hardisty wrote: SAMA5D2 specific, I should add. There is no support for the Class D driver for any SAMA5D2 board in the source tree. Indeed - it's a custom/proprietary board which is why I added and contribute

Re: write method for audio driver?

2023-08-28 Thread Tim Hardisty
On 28/08/2023 02:49, Nathan Hartman wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 6:24 PM Tim Hardisty wrote: SAMA5D2 specific, I should add. On 27 Aug 2023, at 23:23, Tim Hardisty wrote: The classD driver DOES register itself as /dev/audio/pcm0, and works correctly as such with nx_player. The

Re: write method for audio driver?

2023-08-27 Thread Tim Hardisty
SAMA5D2 specific, I should add. > On 27 Aug 2023, at 23:23, Tim Hardisty wrote: > > The classD driver DOES register itself as /dev/audio/pcm0, and works > correctly as such with nx_player. > > The conversions are wav (or mp3 etc) to pcm. > > Don’t if we’re talki

Re: write method for audio driver?

2023-08-27 Thread Tim Hardisty
The classD driver DOES register itself as /dev/audio/pcm0, and works correctly as such with nx_player. The conversions are wav (or mp3 etc) to pcm. Don’t if we’re talking cross purposes or the classd driver works in a way it shouldn’t!!! > On 27 Aug 2023, at 23:00, Gregory Nutt wrote: > > A

Re: write method for audio driver?

2023-08-27 Thread Tim Hardisty
Or am I completely missing the point and I just need to use the nxaudio system!!?? On 27/08/2023 12:25, Tim Hardisty wrote: Looking a little more at the write function of audio_ops_s it is not used by any existing driver and is documented to be for device-specific information...so it is not

Re: write method for audio driver?

2023-08-27 Thread Tim Hardisty
Hz tone using 48 sampling for 500ms. Looks like there are similar functions "out there" I could reference. Is that more along the right lines perhaps? On 27/08/2023 11:17, Tim Hardisty wrote: Thanks Gregory. The existing ClassD driver is registered as /dev/audio/pcm0 and is a PCM de

Re: write method for audio driver?

2023-08-27 Thread Tim Hardisty
nking of adding, but perhaps I'm am not understanding that /dev/audio/pcm0 can't (shouldn't) actually be opened as a character driver? Sorry for the dumb questions! On 26/08/2023 23:10, Gregory Nutt wrote: On 8/26/2023 12:18 PM, Tim Hardisty wrote: This is, I'm sure, more a generi

Re: write method for audio driver?

2023-08-27 Thread Tim Hardisty
device at /dev/audio/pcm0 and have the driver manage the buffer and ready flags etc. I will add other notes in an answer to Gregory's reply to this. On 27/08/2023 05:59, Tomek CEDRO wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2023, 20:18 Tim Hardisty wrote: This is, I'm sure, more a generic POSIX question

Re: write method for audio driver?

2023-08-27 Thread Tim Hardisty
Thanks Gregory. I looked at that but it produces tones using PWM. The ClassD of the SAMA5D2 is a PCM device, so not an immediately obvious match? On 26/08/2023 23:17, Gregory Nutt wrote: > >>> But I want to play simple audio tones, from a sine look-up table, >>> and filling a buffer and enqueuin

write method for audio driver?

2023-08-26 Thread Tim Hardisty
This is, I'm sure, more a generic POSIX question than NuttX-specific but I am still not that familiar with either! When I wrote the SAMA5D2 ClassD audio driver I followed the methods appropriate for using "apb" so it works well with nxplayer (for example). But I want to play simple audio tones,

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