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2021-02-02 Tuesday

Real Time Operating System references . . .

^ ChibiOS

A brief history of ChibiOS development:

How to create static threads and dynamic threads, in ChibiOS:

How to choose thread's working area or memory size:


^ ChibiOS ports

This section dedicated to references and notes on ChibiOS ports to processors outside of the immediate, STM32xxx families of parts.

Adding this Nordicsemi Devzone article link regarding ChibiOS port to nRF9160 System In Package:

^ Zephyr RTOS

Introduction to Zephyr and some guides . . .

Example code . . .

A tutorial for setting up support and build environment for Zephyr, and for flashing and testing on yet undetermined targets:

Zephyr demo supported boards


YAML data serialization language

There appears to be an important high-level tool called west which Zephyr developers and community use. It's also mentioned as the build tool for one or more of Nordic Semiconductor's nRF9160 example projects. A link to the github west documentation is,


The west project top level Github URL:


^ To configure Zephyr SDK

2021-07-27 Tuesday While configuring Zephyr SDK for Linux command line builds having trouble with basic build after following Nordic Semi 'Getting Started' instructions. Meta-tool west complains "not able to find toolchain.": 

ted@localhost:~/zephyrproject/zephyr$ west build -b nrf9160dk_nrf9160@1.0.0 ./samples/basic/blinky
-- west build: generating a build system
Including boilerplate (Zephyr base (cached)): /home/ted/zephyrproject/zephyr/cmake/app/boilerplate.cmake
-- Application: /home/ted/zephyrproject/zephyr/samples/basic/blinky
-- Zephyr version: 2.6.99 (/home/ted/zephyrproject/zephyr), build: zephyr-v2.6.0-1460-g17d2e9d084b2
-- Found west (found suitable version "0.11.0", minimum required is "0.7.1")
-- Board: nrf9160dk_nrf9160, Revision: 1.0.0 (Active: 0.14.0)
-- Cache files will be written to: /home/ted/.cache/zephyr
-- Using toolchain: zephyr 0.12.4 (/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.12.4)
-- Found dtc: /usr/bin/dtc (found suitable version "1.5.0", minimum required is "1.4.6")
-- Found toolchain: cross-compile (arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-)
CMake Error at /home/ted/zephyrproject/zephyr/cmake/compiler/gcc/generic.cmake:8 (message):
  Zephyr was unable to find the toolchain.  Is the environment misconfigured?

  User-configuration:

  ZEPHYR_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT: cross-compile

  Internal variables:

  CROSS_COMPILE: arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-

  TOOLCHAIN_HOME:

Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /home/ted/zephyrproject/zephyr/cmake/generic_toolchain.cmake:42 (include)
  /home/ted/zephyrproject/zephyr/cmake/app/boilerplate.cmake:570 (include)
  /home/ted/zephyrproject/zephyr/share/zephyr-package/cmake/ZephyrConfig.cmake:24 (include)
  /home/ted/zephyrproject/zephyr/share/zephyr-package/cmake/ZephyrConfig.cmake:40 (include_boilerplate)
  CMakeLists.txt:4 (find_package)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
FATAL ERROR: command exited with status 1: /usr/bin/cmake -DWEST_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 -B/home/ted/zephyrproject/zephyr/build -S/home/ted/zephyrproject/zephyr/samples/basic/blinky -GNinja

The pattern "Found toolchain:" comes from one of the following cmake files: 

ted@localhost:~/zephyrproject$ grep -nr "Found toolchain:" ./*
./zephyr/cmake/toolchain/host/generic.cmake:9:message(STATUS "Found toolchain: host (gcc/ld)")
./zephyr/cmake/toolchain/llvm/generic.cmake:32:message(STATUS "Found toolchain: host (clang/ld)")
./zephyr/cmake/toolchain/cross-compile/generic.cmake:31:message(STATUS "Found toolchain: cross-compile (${CROSS_COMPILE})")
./zephyr/cmake/toolchain/gnuarmemb/generic.cmake:32:message(STATUS "Found toolchain: gnuarmemb (${GNUARMEMB_TOOLCHAIN_PATH})")
./zephyr/cmake/toolchain/xtools/generic.cmake:40:message(STATUS "Found toolchain: xtools (${XTOOLS_TOOLCHAIN_PATH})")
./zephyr/cmake/toolchain/oneApi/generic.cmake:46:message(STATUS "Found toolchain: host (clang/ld)")
./zephyr/cmake/toolchain/xcc/generic.cmake:44:message(STATUS "Found toolchain: xcc (${XTENSA_TOOLCHAIN_PATH})")
./zephyr/cmake/toolchain/espressif/generic.cmake:21:message(STATUS "Found toolchain: espressif (${ESPRESSIF_TOOLCHAIN_PATH})")

^ edit point

Questions:
(1) what is in this file: /home/ted/zephyrproject/zephyr/cmake/compiler/gcc/generic.cmake?
(2) where originates this string pattern: arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi ?

Answers: (2) the pattern 'arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-' does not appear to original in ~/zephyrproject/zephyr: 

    ted@localhost:~/zephyrproject/zephyr$ grep -nr 'arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-' ./*
./build/CMakeCache.txt:53:CROSS_COMPILE:PATH=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-


Unsure whether this is correct but we have these newly drafted environment variables set: 

ted@localhost:~/zephyrproject/zephyr$ set | grep ZEPHYR
ZEPHYR_SDK_INSTALL_DIR=/opt
ZEPHYR_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT=zephyr


^ generic cmake

Zephyr project file generic.cmake looks to be the most likely source of the fatal error message above. A search for part of the message text pattern gives: 

ted@localhost:~/zephyrproject$ grep -nr 'unable to find the toolchain' ./*
./zephyr/cmake/compiler/xcc/generic.cmake:8:  message(FATAL_ERROR "Zephyr was unable to find the toolchain. Is the environment misconfigured?
./zephyr/cmake/compiler/gcc/generic.cmake:8:  message(FATAL_ERROR "Zephyr was unable to find the toolchain. Is the environment misconfigured?
./zephyr/doc/releases/release-notes-2.0.rst:1230:* :github:`15587` - Zephyr was unable to find the toolchain
./zephyr/doc/releases/release-notes-2.1.rst:663:* :github:`19802` - Zephyr was unable to find the toolchain after update to zephyr version 1.13.0
ted@indulkana:~/zephyrproject$

The content of generic.cmake raises a question, how and where may we as users set the variable ${TOOLCHAIN_HOME}? Here is the cmake file, line 5 catches our attention because TOOLCHAIN_HOME is passed to a function as the only path set to search for Zephyr project's build tools: 

  1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  2 
  3 set_ifndef(CC gcc)
  4 
  5 find_program(CMAKE_C_COMPILER ${CROSS_COMPILE}${CC}   PATHS ${TOOLCHAIN_HOME} NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
  6 
  7 if(CMAKE_C_COMPILER STREQUAL CMAKE_C_COMPILER-NOTFOUND)
  8   message(FATAL_ERROR "Zephyr was unable to find the toolchain. Is the environment misconfigured?
  9 User-configuration:
 10 ZEPHYR_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT: ${ZEPHYR_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT}
 11 Internal variables:
 12 CROSS_COMPILE: ${CROSS_COMPILE}
 13 TOOLCHAIN_HOME: ${TOOLCHAIN_HOME}
 14 ")
 15 endif()
 16 
 17 execute_process(
 18   COMMAND ${CMAKE_C_COMPILER} --version
 19   RESULT_VARIABLE ret
 20   OUTPUT_QUIET
 21   ERROR_QUIET
 22   )
 23 if(ret)
 24   message(FATAL_ERROR "Executing the below command failed. Are permissions set correctly?
 25 '${CMAKE_C_COMPILER} --version'
 26 "
 27     )
 28 endif()


Locating Zephyr SDK toolchain compilers, there appear to be multiple of them: 

ted@localhost:/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.12.4$ ls
aarch64-zephyr-elf  arm-zephyr-eabi  info-zephyr-sdk-0.12.4  nios2-zephyr-elf    sdk_version       sysroots           xtensa
arc-zephyr-elf      cmake            mips-zephyr-elf         riscv64-zephyr-elf  sparc-zephyr-elf  x86_64-zephyr-elf


^ Devzone posts


^ General RTOS Considerations


^ References


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