osd-contiki/cpu/avr
Robert Quattlebaum 28a1e40ebd core/lib/settings: Generalized Settings Manager to work on any platform
This commit moves the Settings Manager from the AVR codebase
into the Contiki core library. Any platform that implements
the Contiki EEPROM API can now use the Settings Manager's
key-value store for storing their persistent configuration info.

The Settings Manager is a EEPROM-based key-value store. Keys
are 16-bit integers and values may be up to 16,383 bytes long.
It is intended to be used to store configuration-related information,
like network settings, radio channels, etc.

 * Robust data format which requires no initialization.
 * Supports multiple values with the same key.
 * Data can be appended without erasing EEPROM.
 * Max size of settings data can be easily increased in the future,
   as long as it doesn't overlap with application data.

The format was inspired by the [OLPC manufacturing data format][].

Since the beginning of EEPROM often contains application-specific
information, the best place to store settings is at the end of EEPROM
(the "top"). Because we are starting at the end of EEPROM, it makes
sense to grow the list of key-value pairs downward, toward the start of
EEPROM.

Each key-value pair is stored in memory in the following format:

Order    | Size     | Name         | Description
--------:|---------:|--------------|-------------------------------
       0 |        2 | `key`        | 16-bit key
      -2 |        1 | `size_check` | One's-complement of next byte
      -3 |   1 or 2 | `size`       | The size of `value`, in bytes
-4 or -5 | variable | `value`      | Value associated with `key`

The end of the key-value pairs is denoted by the first invalid entry.
An invalid entry has any of the following attributes:

 * The `size_check` byte doesn't match the one's compliment of the
   `size` byte (or `size_low` byte).
 * The key has a value of 0x0000.

[OLPC manufacturing data format]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data
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dev Removed old unused RTL8019 code that had license issues 2012-10-29 16:08:09 +01:00
radio Merge pull request #143 from idelamer/master 2013-02-24 15:26:38 -08:00
avr.c * Generic AVR stuff. 2007-01-25 18:24:29 +00:00
avrdef.h Removed all old RCS tags in the Contiki source tree. Those RCS tags are not used any more, as we are now using git to manage the Contiki source tree 2012-10-26 15:54:49 +02:00
bootloader.c Add stk500 platform and changes suggested by Daniel Willmann 2011-08-03 11:18:55 -04:00
bootloader.h Merge CDC-ECM, RNG, DFU bootloader, watchdog, settings manager, energy scan routines of Robert Quattlebaum 2010-09-17 21:59:09 +00:00
cc2420_spi.c Removed all old RCS tags in the Contiki source tree. Those RCS tags are not used any more, as we are now using git to manage the Contiki source tree 2012-10-26 15:54:49 +02:00
leds-arch.c Removed all old RCS tags in the Contiki source tree. Those RCS tags are not used any more, as we are now using git to manage the Contiki source tree 2012-10-26 15:54:49 +02:00
Makefile.avr core/lib/settings: Generalized Settings Manager to work on any platform 2013-03-20 11:57:13 -07:00
minileds.c Removed all old RCS tags in the Contiki source tree. Those RCS tags are not used any more, as we are now using git to manage the Contiki source tree 2012-10-26 15:54:49 +02:00
mtarch.c Add missing mtarch_stop function 2012-02-21 11:11:53 -05:00
mtarch.h Removed all old RCS tags in the Contiki source tree. Those RCS tags are not used any more, as we are now using git to manage the Contiki source tree 2012-10-26 15:54:49 +02:00
rtimer-arch.c Removed all old RCS tags in the Contiki source tree. Those RCS tags are not used any more, as we are now using git to manage the Contiki source tree 2012-10-26 15:54:49 +02:00
rtimer-arch.h Add F_CPU=0x800000 option with phase lock to external 32768 Hz crystal 2012-01-10 12:42:27 -05:00
slip_uart1.c Removed all old RCS tags in the Contiki source tree. Those RCS tags are not used any more, as we are now using git to manage the Contiki source tree 2012-10-26 15:54:49 +02:00
spi.c Remove unused SPI initializer flag from AVR. Comment out in the msp-430 template. 2012-02-27 17:05:22 -05:00
watchdog.c Add stk500 platform and changes suggested by Daniel Willmann 2011-08-03 11:18:55 -04:00