All channels at max when using the FrSKY 4ch D4FR in PPM
mode results in the frame pulse shrinking well below our
threshold of 3800us and we lose frame.
With all 8 channels at max, the frame pulse becomes
indistinguishable from the other channels. Using all 8
channels with the FrSKY in PPM mode is NOT recommended
even after this change.
Recommend using at most 7 active channels in this mode so
we can still find the frame pulse.
them symbolic constants.
- A timeout is 0
- A missing driver is 65534
- An invalid channel is 65535
ManualControl: Make it deal with the values explicitly. A timed out value
should not be treated like a minimum duration signal. Instead it does not
updated the scaled value but marks the data window as invalid to trigger the
failsafe.
Allocate per-instance data for drivers from the heap
rather than as static variables from the .data segment.
This converts > 800 bytes of RAM from being always consumed
as static data into being allocated from the heap only when
a particular feature is enabled in the hwsettings object.
A minimal config (no receivers, flexi port disabled, main port
disabled) leaves 2448 bytes of free heap. That's our new baseline.
Approximate RAM (heap) costs of enabling various features:
+ 632 Serial Telemetry (includes 400 bytes of Rx/Tx buffers)
+ 108 PWM Rcvr
+ 152 PPM Rcvr
+ 112 Spektrum Rcvr
+ 24 S.Bus (Should be closer to 68 since driver is still using
static memory)
There are still some drivers that pre-allocate all of their memory
as static data. It'll take some work to convert those over to
dynamically allocating their instance data.
PWM and PPM can now coexist in the same load and be
selected at boot time via the hwsettings UAVObject.
This is basically a complete restructuring of the
way the drivers interact with the TIM peripheral in
the STM32.
As a side effect, the PWM and PPM drivers are now
ready to support multiple instances of each.
This also provides the first step toward being able
to reassign some of the PWM input pins to be servo
output pins. Still more work required, but this is
a good start.
Each channel was previously tracking a separate driver.
Now, channels are grouped within a channel group to save
RAM used for tracking and to better reflect how channels
are actually mapped.
This is a port of a work-in-progress by Sambas onto
the new driver infrastructure needed for boot-time
configuration.
PPM and PWM still don't coexist in a build but this
is closer.
All receivers now fall under the same driver API provided
by pios_rcvr.c.
This is part of a larger sequence of commits that will
switch the receiver selection over to boot time dynamic
configuration via UAVObjects.
priority preempts) and adjusting the priorities around to be more sensible.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openpilot.org/OpenPilot/trunk@2355 ebee16cc-31ac-478f-84a7-5cbb03baadba
