Hardware init function profit a great deal from being inlined if the
given parameters are constant -- which is the common use-case, we could
probably call this for all timers and still have less overhead. The
hwtimer_pwm_ini (which calls hwtimer_ini) gets completely computed at
compile-time resulting only in the register settings of hwtimer_ini.
This is now possible because we get rid of static storage for the
max_ticks and instead compute this in hwtimer_pwm_max_ticks from the
timer register settings.
New discovery: Contiki also uses timer 0. With almost the same interface
as Arduino. So we now completely get rid of wiring.c (only the main
file, the other wiring_xxx stay) and implement Arduino timer, delay, etc
in terms of the corresponding Contiki routines. Verified that now delay
works as expected. The LED in examples/osd/arduino-sketch blinks!
Before this, the arduino_init routine in wiring.c destroyed the timer-0
initialization of contiki, making both, contiki timer implementation
*and* contiki timer implementation fail if the arduino_init routine was
called. Now both work.
Squashed with following bug-fix commit.
Some platforms are missing timer channels, this is now left to the
(missing) preprocessor definitions on those platforms, no
platform-specific defines needed anymore.
Also fix usage of timer counter register 3 (hardcoded) in
cpu/avr/dev/clock.c -- this code isn't used on many platforms as it
requires a very special quartz clock frequency but this now also uses
the platform timer specification.
We can now directly compile arduino sketches (.pde) files.
Arduino compatible analogWrite works now.
But there is still a long way to go, serial I/O and timer stuff (delay,
millis etc) currently don't work (not tested but I don't expect this to
work).
It can be used in an arduino sketch or in a normal contiki program.
We get a PWM frequency of 490.2 Hz (a period of 2.040 ms), that's
Arduino compatible. If you need different frequencies see native timer
usage in examples/osd/pwm-example
In a contiki program you have to call arduino_pwm_timer_init to
initialize the timer before pwm works. The arduino sketch wrapper
already does this.
For running a sketch, see examples/osd/arduino-sketch
New application and new example.
We use the built-in timer routines and add an offset to get the
wallclock time. The offset can be set by time-changing routines
(currently only settimeofday).
We also maintain an offset for timezone handling but this isn't
currently fully implemented.
Current default in the Makefile is the *new* bootloader address.
But for backward compatibility we've modified the run*.sh files
to use the old address. The run*.sh also now explain how to change
the default.
