Not long ago, to little fanfare, Espressif (the makers of ESP8266) released gdbstub – a library that allows use of gdb on ESP8266. It works with both non-OS and RTOS SDKs, and works over UART, not JTAG. You get 1 breakpoint for RAM and 1 breakpoint for FLASH. Is this awesome, or what!? Authorship is […]
I wanted to know which memory allocation scheme (heap_1.c, heap_2.c, heap_3.c, heap_4.c or heap_5.c) was used in the ESP8266 RTOS SDK. This is not mentioned anywhere in the docs (I’ve looked as of 1/12/16). What to do? Let’s just take a look at what is compiled in then.
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$ cd /path/to/RTOSSDK/lib $ xtensa-lx106-elf-nm libfreertos.a | grep -50 "T pvPortMalloc" |
Actually, this works even with a […]
In this article I will walk the reader through the inner workings of an OpenHAB2 binding. It is meant to answer the question of “who calls who and when?”, which invariably arises when one starts working with a new framework. It is a summary of what I had learned while writing the binding for my […]