Word-size specific configuration is now done automatically, so it no longer
requires this to match the ARM configuration.
Also it's less common to have 32-bit compilation support installed, so this
will make it work "out of the box" for more people.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
By having a pair of buffers, the capture hardware can fill one buffer while
Python code (including displayio, etc) operates on the other buffer. This
increases the responsiveness of camera-using code.
On the Kaluga it makes the following improvements:
* 320x240 viewfinder at 30fps instead of 15fps using directio
* 240x240 animated gif capture at 10fps instead of 7.5fps
As discussed at length on Discord, the "usual end user" code will look like
this:
camera = ...
with camera.continuous_capture(buffer1, buffer2) as capture:
for frame in capture:
# Do something with frame
However, rather than presenting a context manager, the core code consists of
three new functions to start & stop continuous capture, and to get the next
frame. The reason is twofold. First, it's simply easier to implement the
context manager object in pure Python. Second, for more advanced usage, the
context manager may be too limiting, and it's easier to iterate on the right
design in Python code. In particular, I noticed that adapting the
JPEG-capturing programs to use continuous capture mode needed a change in
program structure.
The camera app was structured as
```python
while True:
if shutter button was just pressed:
capture a jpeg frame
else:
update the viewfinder
```
However, "capture a jpeg frame" needs to (A) switch the camera settings and (B)
capture into a different, larger buffer then (C) return to the earlier
settings. This can't be done during continuous capture mode. So just
restructuring it as follows isn't going to work:
```python
with camera.continuous_capture(buffer1, buffer2) as capture:
for frame in capture:
if shutter button was just pressed:
capture a jpeg frame, without disturbing continuous capture mode
else:
update the viewfinder
```
The continuous mode is only implemented in the espressif port; others
will throw an exception if the associated methods are invoked. It's not
impossible to implement there, just not a priority, since these micros don't
have enough RAM for two framebuffer copies at any resonable sizes.
The capture code, including single-shot capture, now take mp_obj_t in the
common-hal layer, instead of a buffer & length. This was done for the
continuous capture mode because it has to identify & return to the user the
proper Python object representing the original buffer. In the Espressif port,
it was convenient to implement single capture in terms of a multi-capture,
which is why I changed the singleshot routine's signature too.
New design:
* capture output to a vstr
* compare the complete vstr to boot_out.txt
* rewrite if not a complete match
This is resilient against future changes to the automatic
text written to boot_out.txt.
This also fixes rewriting boot_out.txt in the case where
boot.py prints something.
Perhaps it also saves a bit of code space. Some tricks:
* no need to close a file in read mode
* no need to switch on/off USB write access, going down to the
oofatfs layer doesn't check it anyway
This makes it possible for cooperative multitasking systems to keep running
event loops during garbage collector operations.
For example, this can be used to ensure that a motor control loop runs
approximately each 5 ms. Without this hook, the loop time can jump to
about 15 ms.
Addresses #3475.
Signed-off-by: Laurens Valk <laurens@pybricks.com>
This is an stm32-specific feature that's accessed via the pyb module, so
not something that will be widely enabled.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This commit is a no-op change. Future improvements can come from making
individual boards use CORE or BASIC.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Some of these will later be moved to CORE or BASIC, but EXTRA is a good
starting point based on what stm32 uses.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
