Talking Tock 23

Training at RustConf, virtual alarms and lots of new drivers

June 27th 2017 by Amit

This is the 23rd post in a series tracking the development of Tock, a safe multi-tasking operating system for microcontrollers.

1. RustConf Training
2. Pull Requests
   1. Merged
   2. Proposed

RustConf Training

Registration for the Tock training at RustConf is up (formerly at http://rustconf.com/register.html)! We’re extremely excited to be running alongside the other tutorials. It will be on Friday, in the afternoon.

Pull Requests

Merged

• @alevy added virtual alarms to userland
• @bradjc:
  • Add PCA9544a Capsule
  • auto generate documentation
  • MAX17205 driver
  • DAC driver
  • style fixes in debug.rs, sam4l clocks, sam4l crcu, sam4l helpers.rs, userland error names
  • nonvolatile storage interface
  • flash updates
  • fix nrf serialization library
• @bbbert fixed a logic bug in the rf233 driver
• @ppannuto:
  • Formatting for kernel and userland
  • Travis CI fixes

Proposed

• @bradjc implemented self-modification of process flash regions
• @bradjc made improvements to the SAM4L AES driver
• @bradjc created a BLE UART app
• @niklasad1 implemented BLE scanning for the NRF51
• @ppannuto added human-readable error code explanations