[Arm-netbook] First push to EOMA-68 firmware :)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi Luke,
>
> Le Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:44:17 +0100
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> a écrit:
>
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>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware:
>> https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Albert ARIBAUD
>> <albert.aribaud at free.fr> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Just did a quick "git push" to test that I can actually push onto
>> > the EOMA-68 EC firmware repo. Changes are trivial: on branch master,
>> > I just did some cleanup of main.c; more to come soon.
>>
>>  awesome.  btw please don't remove things that are commented out, #if
>> 0 them out instead - they're usually there for some sort of debug or
>> experimentation purposes.
>
> I'll put them back, see below.

 thanks albert

> Still, some conditionally compiled code *can* be cleaned up. One
> obvious example is the code in main.c which sets up the system tick: we
> know the EC microcontroller is going to be the STM32F072 no matter
> what, so __ARM_ARCH_6M__ is going to always be defined and we can do
> away with the inner #if/#else/#endif; and we need the system tick, so
> the outer #if 1 / #endif can go away too.

 can't remember why i put it in...

>>  also: there is a chromebook using the STM32F072 with keyboard
>> controller firmware as well, it's quite hard to understand.
>
> Noted, thanks.
>
>>  one major thing that needs doing is to add a 2nd USB-HID "mouse"
>> endpoint, starting possible with the mouse usb-hid example which makes
>> the cursor move backwards and forwards.  i happen to have a
>> dual-keyboard-and-mouse logitech thing so the dual endpoint is
>> attached just so we don't lose track... i'll also add it here
>>
>>  http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/laptop_15in/pcb2/usbhid.txt
>
> Thanks. I'll add that to my TODO list. :)

  :)

>> > Also, I created a new branch, "aaribaud/nucleo-f072rb", for stuff
>> > which allow/help developing the EC firmware on the NUCLEO dev
>> > board. That branch is intended to stay rebased on top of "master".
>> >
>> > Luke: right now I intend to keep on pushing onto master; but maybe
>> > you prefer that I push onto a dev branch (e.g. "aaribaud/master"),
>> > and from time to time you or I do a merge into master?
>>
>>  naah, haven't got time to mess about with branches, unless it's a
>> really big rewrite that needs everyone to work *in* that branch.
>
> OK -- I'll rollback my initial change and commit back a version with
> test code kept in (and timer tick code simplified).

 awesome

> BTW, I now have the keyboard, and have soldered the FPC connector to a
> breakout flat wire ribbon which I will be able to connect to the board!

 yay!

> Of course, I goofed up when I set out soldering, and every pair of wires
> on the ribbon is swapped, i.e. FPC pin #1 is ribbon wire #2, FPC pin #2
> is ribbon wire #1, FPC pin #3 is ribbon wire 4, FPC pin #4 is wire #3,
> etc... :)

 aw doh

> Still, despite my terrible soldering inability, no wire is
> cut or shorted to another one, so as long as I keep the swapping in
> mind while plugging the ribbon's wires onto the board, everything
> should work fine. :)

 looking forward to hearing how you get on man

l.