#zinc

Hey farcaller, I just got my first firmware to work.

I mean driver.

\o/

grats!

Are you going to keep going on zinc?

I know it's failing now but it's almost 1.0 time.

I made rustup today. rustup made me sad :)

at least my non-baremetal code is mostly functional

I got the functional test environment (got a new linux box recently), so yes, I'll be going on, but the focus will be to get minimally viable code that is covered by tests

And you were searching for a way to quickly add devices right?

Autogenerate code basically?

well, that part is working

I guess, it's the only part that is working

there's an svd parser to ioreg code

and ioreg macro that gives a "safe" api to that

I *still* don't know what svd is or does, I had to write the registers and options by hand for the 9685.

In fact if I google "svd parser" zinc is the first result

Ok found your example svd file

Is there a way to take that file and turn it into that svd format?

That along with the manual for the chip is how I got my driver to work.

well, if you're into lots of manual work

but at that point writing ioreg definition directly makes much more sense

I didn't think it was hard, maybe tedious, is this not what you need though?

I seriously thought it was a lot of fun.

if you don't have svd there is no reason to write it, svd parser only saves you time to generate ioreg

Sweet, I'm one step ahead of the game, basically you point and I'll write drivers.

ioreg macro is broken now thanks to new parser interfaces

Which of your test boards do you prefer?

lpc1768 at the moment

although I hooked up a bare lpc1114 to test machine to see if I can do e2e tests

If I get the ARM chip workign on the RPI2 would you consider switching platforms?

The shittiest thing about that board is the video drivers

Otherwise I'll order an lpc1768

well, rpi2 is cortex-a

it's not that much interesting, too powerful

I'm just thinking that a lot of peripherals are built with that board in mind, there's almost an overabundance of documentation.

But I will agree with you and order one of these boards.

I am easy enough to work with.

there's little reason to not use linux on rpi2 I think

Future wise I think hypervisiors and unikernels will end up taking over.

No worries though I ordered the other chip.