Actuator did not provide an option to completely shutdown selected channels
(set PWM pulse = 0). It is useful for camera stabilization boot delay (we
want few seconds of gimbal servo inactivity to calibrate gyros). It also
might be useful for failsafe on some channels. This option is now available.
It is used to disable camera outputs during fixed 7s delay after boot
instead of setting them to minimum position.
As a side effect, few bugs are fixed (ticks should be multiplied by
portTICK_RATE_MS, not divided, to get time in ms). And few floating point
operations were optimized out as well.
ActuatorCommand.UpdateTime was promoted to uint16 because it is not unusual
to have it 20000ms during flash updates (was seen on the CC after UAV
settings import). So it should be 16bit as well.
Refactored the updating of ChannelUpdateFreq so that it is done only when the actual update rates changes.
The actual update of the servo channel is moved inside the ActuatorTask.
Now the problem happen only in very few cases when modifying update rates.
Also implement some ordering (quite ugly still) in the module init and task creation order so we can decide which module to start/init first
and which module to start/init last.
This will be replaced/adapter with the uavobject list later (once it's implemented).
reserving some space for module init and task create parameters to customize module/task creation (this will be usefull once we get the list and customization from customer).
Changes have been made for OP and CC. Tested comped with CC,OP, sim_posix.
Only ran on bench with CC for couple of minutes (code increase expected but no dropping of stack which is good).
This gives task creation at the time wherethe all heap is available.
heap reamining is low (about 500) but stacks can be ajusted (specially the 200 bytes from system) to give the level close to 1Ko if needed.
Merge branch 'master' into OP-423_Mathieu_Change_Init_To_Reduce_Memory_Footprint
Conflicts:
flight/CopterControl/System/inc/FreeRTOSConfig.h
flight/CopterControl/System/inc/pios_config.h
- create linker section for those <module>Initialize()
- later this list will incorporate parameters as well. (this probably will be more a OP feature to swap/remove/delete module on the fly.
- this is not done at compile time anymore by Makefile.
- this will allow us to have control on the module start at run-time (not implemented but build the ground for it).
- this simplify the startup (Part of code re-org).
- this change does not affect sim_posix and win32 (since they don't need that)
- ensure it's compiling for PiOS.posix
- port to PiOS.win32 but not tested (not compiled)
- tested on CC
- compile on OP.
- this free ~200 bytes.
- current avalable bytes (is we keep the same remaining bytes on the stack than before) is easily passed the 1.2Ko mark on CC with new gcc (4.5.2)
- this does not include init-reorg for each module (I still think more can be freed)
outputs. Warning: This has no failsafes like arming. We should discuss if
this is appropriate.
In addition accessory objects can be routed throught the mixer for collective
or flaperon.
