danh and microdev1 noticed that this ignore pattern was over-broad
and caused added sdkconfig files in boards/ (which should be committed)
to be ignored and not proposed for addition by common tools like
git status, git gui, etc.
This pattern anchors the search so that it only matches in the
ports/espressif directory, so ports/espressif/sdkconfig is ignored
but ports/espressif/boards/example/sdkconfig is not ignored anymore
It's more efficient passing one register-sized structure than 4
arguments or 4 pointers; working on intermediate values of 'int' size
is also more efficient in code size!
On raspberry pi pico w, this increased free flash space by +104 bytes.
It also increased the speed of my testing animation very slightly, from
187fps to 189fps when run 'unthrottled'
This needs thorough testing before it's merged, as we tried
and reverted this once before (#5341 and #5356).
I think that besides checking for tinyusb having "something to do",
the fact that `port_interrupt_after_ticks` and `port_disable_tick`
weren't implemented that was causing a secondary problem.
I've tested this on a pico w over reboot-cycles and ctrl-c-cycles,
with and without drive automounting, with and without serial repl open,
and on a power-only connection.
I didn't notice the problem reported in #5356 after merely implementing
port_idle_until_interrupt; but I did notice that sleeps in general would
take over-long until "something" (like writing to the USB drive) happened;
I think "something" was probably calling port_enable_tick(). When this
problem was happening, sleeps would take a lot longer; for instance,
`sleep(.001)` would take about 1/20s and `sleep(.1)` would take about 1/7s.
.. a fast helper for animations. It is similar to and inspired by the
PixelMap helper in Adafruit LED Animation library, but with an extremely
fast 'paste' method for setting a series of pixels. This is a common
operation for many animations, and can give a substantial speed improvement.
It's named `adafruit_pixelmap` so that we can package a compatible version
in pure Python for systems that can't fit it in C in flash, or for
Blinka.
This is a proof of concept and can make a very fast comet animation:
```python
import time
import adafruit_pixelbuf
import adafruti_pixelmap
import board
import neopixel
from supervisor import ticks_ms
from adafruit_led_animation.animation.solid import Solid
from adafruit_led_animation import color
pixel_pin = board.GP0
pixel_num = 96
pixels = neopixel.NeoPixel(pixel_pin, pixel_num, brightness=1, auto_write=False, pixel_order="RGB")
evens = adafruit_pixelmap.PixelMap(pixels, tuple(range(0, pixel_num, 2)))
odd_indices = tuple((i, i+2) for i in range(1, pixel_num, 4))
print(odd_indices)
odds = adafruit_pixelbuf.PixelMap(pixels, odd_indices)
assert len(odds) == len(odd_indices)
comet_length = 16
comet1 = [color.calculate_intensity(color.GREEN, ((1+i) / comet_length) ** 2.4)
for i in range(comet_length)]
comet2 = [color.calculate_intensity(color.PURPLE, ((1+i) / comet_length) ** 2.4)
for i in range(comet_length)]
pos1 = 0
pos2 = 96//4
while True:
evens.paste(comet1, pos1, wrap=True, reverse=False, others=0)
pos1 = (pos1 + 1) % len(evens)
odds.paste(comet2, pos2, wrap=True, reverse=True, others=0)
pos2 = (pos2 - 1) % len(odds)
pixels.show()
m = ticks_ms()
if m % 2000 > 1000:
time.sleep(.02)
```
