Now that I understand how smoltcp does ping better I have regrets.
The demo example in smoltcp uses a funky macro that was a bit
misleading. I have gotten rid of that but I probably would have made
different decisions in implementing this had I understood the API better.
Anyways. It works, but has some trouble handling the cases of timeouts
sometimes.
Switch to using the new com_rs::serdes::StringDes struct for
deserializing the COM protocol response to WLAN_STATUS.
With this change, `wlan status` will receive a string of up to 64
bytes and print it to the shellchat log. Status string formatting
is handled by the betrusted-ec EC firmware code.
Signed-off-by: samblenny
Switch to using the new com_rs::serdes::StringSer struct for
serializing the COM protocol arguments to WLAN_SET_SSID and
WLAN_SET_PASS. The point is to reduce the amount of ad hoc,
untested packing and unpacking.
Signed-off-by: samblenny
this prevents less trusted processes from connecting to servers
after the kernel initializations are done.
this works so long as we don't have disconnects from the kernel
servers. In order to support disconnects we will also need a
way to re-enumerate the SID to guarantee that we don't have a re-use
problem. But for now, the kernel is not designed with any practical
disconnect mechanism; there is no code that calls the Quit mechanism
on any server.
the connection number is re-used for all objects created
within a process space, so you can't `Drop` the connection
immediately when an object goes out of scope. You have to
make sure all instance of the object go out of scope. This
patch adds reference counting to all the objects so that
the `Drop` function works as intended.
Here's an arcane bug for you:
When powering down, the Spartan 7 3.3V I/O drivers will
output a roughly 800us wide glitch as 3.3V falls below around
1.7V, if the 0.95V core voltage comes down first (which it does
because we have an active discharge on 0.95V, but not on 3.3V).
In this case, it's just wide and high enough to cause the
BOOST mode line to engage, which takes the BOOST output
and ties it to VBUS, which is just enough for the system to
think you're powering it back on again. Which is not what
you want when powering down.
The ultimate fix was to put a heftier pull-down on the BOOST
line so that it can't trip the BOOST output into the VBUS.
Another option could be more active discharge FETs, but that
would require a full board spin and we are already at certification,
so we'll stick with the stronger pull-down on BOOST. It seems to
be a robust fix in the worst corner cases we can find.
The downside is that when powering an external USB device,
you are burning an extra 30mW of power overcoming the pull-down,
but typically, any external USB devices plugged into Precursor
will burn far in excess of that, so the delta should be negligible.
