The cc65 tool chain comes with V.24 drivers so it seems reasonable to use the existing Contiki SLIP driver to implement network access via SLIP as alternative to Ethernet.
Some notes:
- The Ethernet configuration was simplified in order to allow share it with SLIP.
- The Contiki SLIP driver presumes an interrupt driven serial receiver to write into the SLIP buffer. However the cc65 V.24 drivers aren't up to that. Therefore the main loops were extended to pull received data from the V.24 buffers and push it into the SLIP buffer.
- As far as I understand the serial sender is supposed to block until the data is sent. Therefore a loop calls the non-blocking V.24 driver until the data is sent.
On all platforms there's only one V.24 driver available. Therefore V.24 drivers are always loaded statically.
On the Apple][ the mouse driver is now loaded statically - independently from SLIP vs. Ethernet. After all there's only one mouse driver available. However there's a major benefit with SLIP: Here all drivers are loaded statically. Therefore the dynamic module loader isn't necessary at all. And without the loader the heap manager isn't necessary at all. This allows for a reduction in code size roughly compensating for the size of the SLIP buffer.
After all there's no momentum for a W5100-based Ethernet solution on the ATARI. So I revert to static linkage of the CS8900A driver as this improves program load times.
- platform/atarixl/Makefile.atarixl: put two more objects into high memory
- platform/atarixl/contiki-conf.h: define WWW_CONF_WGET_EXEC
- tools/6502/Makefile: add 'clean' target; remove unused CONTIKI define
The cc65 memory map for the ATARI XL has two holes so the linker needs hints which object files go where. Source changes lead to object file size changes requiring now and then to rearrange the object files.
The new Atari XL target allows cc65 programs to make use of
the shadow RAM. This allows to turn aon all features of the
web browser - and will allow for additional improvements to
come :-)
Don't be afraid, I'm not trying to have more retro platforms than "real" platforms ;-)
The platform 'atarixl' will replace the platform 'atari'. However I need both for some
transition period.
