Zephyr driver demo

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Zephyr Driver and Separate Demo

- OVERVIEW - Here list and begin to describe key, salient features of a Zephyr RTOS based driver and separately build-able demo to exercise given driver. Driver for first version 0p0 is "out of tree", in other words outside of Zephyr project's source tree.


^ Key Zephyr App Files

Move to refs:

 *  https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref

Key files in the two parts of Zephyr out-of-tree driver and demonstrating app:

Zephyr app Driver out-of-tree
demo (app)
   ¦
CMakeLists.txt  <- set toolchain variant and toolchain path
Kconfig         <- refers to Zephyr top level Kconfig
west.yml        <- chooses SDK, driver projects (1)
driver
   ¦
drivers/
dts/bindings/
include/
zephyr/
   ¦
   +--module.yml
CMakeLists.txt  <- · add subdirs when given drivers enabled,
                   ▸ add include dirs holding header files
Kconfig         <- · refers to Kconfig in child 'drivers' directory
README.md

Note: the out-of-tree driver has a zephyr/module.yml dir and file. The zephyr app does not.

All the more that is in Jared Wolff's AQW demo:

ted@localhost:~/projects/embedded/ncs/zephyr/samples/sandbox-de-ted/jared-wolff/demo$ tree -R
.
├── boards
│   ├── nrf52840dk_nrf52840.conf
│   └── nrf52840dk_nrf52840.overlay
├── CMakeLists.txt
├── Kconfig
├── prj.conf
├── prj.debug.conf
├── prj.release.conf
├── README.md
├── src
│   └── main.c
├── west.yml
└── z--build-messages-001--first-build.txt

2 directories, 11 files


^ Useful Commands To Manage Details

Command available on Ubuntu hosts to effectively locate Zephyr RTOS project installations:

   ted@localhost:~/projects/embedded$ locate VERSION | grep 'ION$'


New Zephyr App Init and Update

Upon, after first invocation of `west init && west update` in a newly cloned Zephyr app project, files pulled down include:

ted@localhost:~/projects/sandbox-2/kionix-driver-demo$ ls
bootloader  modules  tools  west.yml  zephyr
ted@localhost:~/projects/sandbox-2/kionix-driver-demo$ git status .
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
	.west/
	bootloader/
	modules/
	tools/
	zephyr/

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

The west.yml file specifies an ncs software development kit, which include Zephyr and bootloader. All the directories and files above not tracked by git were downloaded by the `west` meta-tool. So this non-tracking is consistent with the way `west` works, and brings in files to a `west manifest` project that is itself under git control.


^ Zephyr Overlay Files and Device Node Label Strings

Given a meta-compiled symbol assignment which takes a DTS node 'label' string, best to avoid use of minus character in these labels:

ted@ubuntu-vm-0p2:~/embedded/z1-sandbox-2021-08-26/kionix-driver-demo$ grep -nr KX132-1211 ./*

Binary file ./boards/.sparkfun_thing_plus_nrf9160.overlay.swp matches
./boards/nrf9160dk_nrf9160ns.overlay:14:                label = "KX132-1211";
./boards/sparkfun_thing_plus_nrf9160.overlay:15:                label = "KX132-1211";
./boards/nrf9160dk_nrf9160.overlay:14:                label = "KX132-1211";
./build/mcuboot/zephyr/.config:421:# KX132-1211 driver
./build/mcuboot/zephyr/.config:423:# end of KX132-1211 driver
./build/zephyr/include/generated/autoconf.h:61:#define CONFIG_KX132_1211_DRV_NAME "KX132-1211"
./build/zephyr/include/generated/devicetree_unfixed.h:6118:#define DT_N_S_soc_S_peripheral_50000000_S_i2c_9000_S_kx132_1211_1f_P_label "KX132-1211"
./build/zephyr/sparkfun_thing_plus_nrf9160.dts.pre.tmp:645:                label = "KX132-1211";
./build/zephyr/zephyr.dts:253:                                  label = "KX132-1211";
./build/zephyr/.config:346:# KX132-1211 driver
./build/zephyr/.config:349:CONFIG_KX132_1211_DRV_NAME="KX132-1211"
./build/zephyr/.config:350:# end of KX132-1211 driver
Binary file ./build/zephyr/edt.pickle matches

ted@ubuntu-vm-0p2:~/embedded/z1-sandbox-2021-08-26/kionix-driver-demo$