Summary
Zephyr microPlatform changes for 0.14
Zephyr updates from 0.12 cycle, no MCUboot changes
Linux microPlatform changes for 0.14
OSF Unified Linux Kernel updated to the 4.14.33 stable release.
Zephyr microPlatform
Summary
Zephyr updates from 0.12 cycle, no MCUboot changes
Highlights
- Zephyr changes from the v1.12 development cycle
- No MCUboot or sample application changes
Components
MCUboot
Features
- Not addressed in this update
Bugs
- Not addressed in this update
Zephyr
Features
SPI API rework and finalization:
- The SPI API (in include/spi.h) has been re-worked and finalized. All in-tree users were upgraded to the new API. The old SPI API, and all of its implementations, have been removed. Out of tree uses of the old SPI API will need updates. A summary of the API changes is available from the OSF blog: https://opensourcefoundries.com/blog/2018/04/11/zephyr-news-20180411/#important-changes
VLAN for Ethernet:
- VLAN support was added for Ethernet network interfaces. Initial support is provided for mcux, native POSIX, and Atmel E70. The SLIP driver also has VLAN support.
New net shell commands "net vlan", "net vlan add", and "net vlan del" were added to query and manipulate the VLAN configuration.
A new sample application, samples/net/vlan, was added, which can be used to set VLAN tags for ethernet interfaces.
As part of these and other network changes, the ethernet files now live in their own directory, net/ip/l2/ethernet.
Red/black trees:
- A new red/black balanced binary tree implementation was added; the API is available in include/misc/rb.h. Like the linked list types, the structure is intrusive: red-black tree nodes are meant to be embedded in another structure, which contains the user data associated with that node. Code size compared to a doubly linked list on most architectures is approximately an additional 2-2.5 KB.
Completion of DTS support for I2C and SPI on STM32:
- All STM32-based boards now use device tree for I2C and SPI peripherals.
Bluetooth generalizations:
- Continuing the effort to generalize the core Bluetooth subsystem across SoCs, the Bluetooth "ticker" timing API now includes a generic hal/ticker.h file, which abstracts out SoC specific definitions.
Driver updates:
- New driver support includes SPI on nRF52, an interrupt in transfer callback on USB HID, USB CDC EEM support for encapsulating Ethernet packets over a USB transport, and GPIO triggering for the ST LSM6DSL accelerometer and IMU.
Boards:
- New boards include the SiFive HiFive1 and Nordic nRF52 Thingy:52 (PCA20020). Ethernet is now enabled by default on the sam_e70_xplained board.
Speeding up CI:
- An effort is underway to reduce the amount of time spent in CI. To that end, an additional upstream CI build slave was added, some duplicative test coverage on qemu_x86 and qemu_cortex_m32 was eliminated, and other optimizations were performed.
Boot banner changes:
- The boot banner now prints the git version (based on git describe) and hash, but timestamps were removed from it by default to increase the reproducibility of Zephyr builds.
The git version does not work properly for out of tree Zephyr applications; details are available at https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/issues/7044.
User mode memory pools:
- A new memory pool implementation which is compatible with use from user mode threads was merged; the API is available in include/misc/mempool.h. This implementation shares code with the in-kernel k_mem_pool API, but avoids constraints that are incompatible with user mode. Memory pools are defined at compile time with SYS_MEM_POOL_DEFINE(), and initialized by sys_mem_pool_init(). Memory may be allocated and freed from an initialized memory pool with sys_mem_pool_alloc() and sys_mem_pool_free(), respectively.
Network interface management:
- Network statistics collection is now per-interface.
The network shell command "net iface" can now enable or disable network interfaces by index.
Initial support for ethernet interface configuration has been merged. This includes a link speed capabilities query. An API was also merged for changing hardware configuration; this includes link speed, but is not limited to it.
Bugs
GPIO port H on STM32L0:
- Support for enabling GPIO port H on STM32L0 was fixed.
Sub-region access on ARM MPUs:
- Support accessing sub-region attributes on ARM MPUs was fixed.
Bluetooth Mesh fixes:
- A pair of Bluetooth mesh fixes were merged, including a null dereference and an issue related to enabling node identity advertising.
Soft float fix:
- The behavior of the CONFIG_FP_SOFTABI option was fixed. It now generates floating point instructions, rather than turning them off, which it was doing previously.
Temperature channel for nRF5 TEMP:
- The temperature sensor channel for the nRF TEMP IP block was fixed; it is now SENSOR_CHAN_DIE_TEMP.
k_thread_create() stack size check:
- A fix was merged for k_thread_create(), which now properly checks the provided stack size on systems which enforce power of two sizes.
POSIX fixes:
- POSIX fixes for pthread_cancel and timer_gettime were merged.
Test fixes and cleanups:
- Dozens of commits cleaning up and fixing the test cases were merged as part of an ongoing effort to standardize the test system, as tracked in https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/issues/6991.
hawkBit and MQTT sample application
Features
- Not addressed in this update
Bugs
- Not addressed in this update
LWM2M sample application
Features
- Not addressed in this update
Bugs
- Not addressed in this update
Linux microPlatform
Summary
OSF Unified Linux Kernel updated to the 4.14.33 stable release.
Highlights
- OSF Unified Linux Kernel updated to 4.14.33.
Components
Meta OSF Layer
Features
Layer Update:
- OSF Unified Linux Kernel updated to 4.14.33.
Bugs
- Not addressed in this update
Meta Updater Layer
Features
Layer Update:
- Added support for custom garage target version and url. Aktualizr updated for the kRejectAll and metadata check fixes.
Bugs
- Not addressed in this update