Changes in this commit:
- Add a extra detail to each of the commands.
- Add more about handling options and arguments.
- Include shortcut commands that behave like real commands to the command
list (e.g. bootloader, rtc).
- Add extra information and reword to address common misconceptions, in
particular how commands chain together.
- Add additional examples showing some more interesting combinations.
- Add descriptions to each of the examples.
- Add pipx installation instructions.
- Describe how user-configuration works.
This work was sponsored by Google Season of Docs.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This commit adds the "--escape-non-printable" option to the repl command.
When specified the REPL console will escape non-printable characters,
printing them as their hex value in square brackets.
This escaping behaviour was previously the default and only behaviour, but
it is now opt-in.
As part of this change, the speed of echoing device data to the console is
improved by by reading and writing in chunks.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This documents when MPY v6.1 was released.
Also add some clarification on how the version is encoded in the header.
Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@pybricks.com>
On MacOS and Windows there are a few default serial devices that are
returned by `serial.tools.list_ports.comports()`. For example on MacOS:
```
{'description': 'n/a',
'device': '/dev/cu.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port',
'hwid': 'n/a',
'interface': None,
'location': None,
'manufacturer': None,
'name': 'cu.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port',
'pid': None,
'product': None,
'serial_number': None,
'vid': None}
{'description': 'n/a',
'device': '/dev/cu.wlan-debug',
'hwid': 'n/a',
'interface': None,
'location': None,
'manufacturer': None,
'name': 'cu.wlan-debug',
'pid': None,
'product': None,
'serial_number': None,
'vid': None}
```
Users of mpremote most likely do not want to connect to these ports. It
would be desirable if mpremote did not select this ports when using the
auto connect behavior. These serial ports do not have USB VID or PID
values and serial ports for Micropython boards with FTDI/serial-to-USB
adapter or native USB CDC/ACM support do.
Check for the presence of a USB VID / PID int value when selecting a
serial port to auto connect to. All serial ports will still be listed by
the `list` command and can still be selected by name when connecting.
Signed-off-by: Michael Mogenson <michael.mogenson@gmail.com>
This supports the same package sources as the new `mip` tool.
- micropython-lib (by name)
- http(s) & github packages with json description
- directly downloading a .py/.mpy file
The version is specified with an optional `@version` on the end of the
package name. The target dir, index, and mpy/no-mpy can be set through
command line args.
This work was funded through GitHub Sponsors.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Updates all README.md and docs, and manifests to `require("mip")`.
Also extend and improve the documentation on freezing and packaging.
This work was funded through GitHub Sponsors.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
The intent is to allow us to make breaking changes to the native ABI (e.g.
changes to dynruntime.h) without needing the bytecode version to increment.
With this commit the two bits previously used for the feature flags (but
now unused as of .mpy version 6) encode a sub-version. A bytecode-only
.mpy file can be loaded as long as MPY_VERSION matches, but a native .mpy
(i.e. one with an arch set) must also match MPY_SUB_VERSION. This allows 3
additional updates to the native ABI per bytecode revision.
The sub-version is set to 1 because the previous commits that changed the
layout of mp_obj_type_t have changed the native ABI.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This allows a remote file to be edited locally by copying it over, running
the local editor, then copying it back.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Now that constant tuples are supported in the parser, eg (1, True, "str"),
it's a small step to allow anything that is a constant to be used with the
pattern:
from micropython import const
X = const(obj)
This commit makes the required changes to allow the following types of
constants:
from micropython import const
_INT = const(123)
_FLOAT = const(1.2)
_COMPLEX = const(3.4j)
_STR = const("str")
_BYTES = const(b"bytes")
_TUPLE = const((_INT, _STR, _BYTES))
_TUPLE2 = const((None, False, True, ..., (), _TUPLE))
Prior to this, only integers could be used in const(...).
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Specifying the option `--unsafe-links` (or `-l`) to `mpremote mount` will
allow symlinks to be followed in the local directory that point outside of
the base directory path.
For the unsafe case the `path_check()` method of `PyboardCommand` still
checks for a common path but without expanding symlinks. While this check
is currently redundant, it makes the purpose of the method clearer for
possible future uses or extensions.
This makes the auto soft-reset behaviour of mpremote more logical, and now
configurable via these new commands.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This commit removes all parts of code associated with the existing
MICROPY_OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE optimisation option, including the
-mcache-lookup-bc option to mpy-cross.
This feature originally provided a significant performance boost for Unix,
but wasn't able to be enabled for MCU targets (due to frozen bytecode), and
added significant extra complexity to generating and distributing .mpy
files.
The equivalent performance gain is now provided by the combination of
MICROPY_OPT_LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE (which has
been enabled on the unix port in the previous commit).
It's hard to provide precise performance numbers, but tests have been run
on a wide variety of architectures (x86-64, ARM Cortex, Aarch64, RISC-V,
xtensa) and they all generally agree on the qualitative improvements seen
by the combination of MICROPY_OPT_LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and
MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE.
For example, on a "quiet" Linux x64 environment (i3-5010U @ 2.10GHz) the
change from CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE, to LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH combined
with MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE is:
diff of scores (higher is better)
N=2000 M=2000 bccache -> attrmapcache diff diff% (error%)
bm_chaos.py 13742.56 -> 13905.67 : +163.11 = +1.187% (+/-3.75%)
bm_fannkuch.py 60.13 -> 61.34 : +1.21 = +2.012% (+/-2.11%)
bm_fft.py 113083.20 -> 114793.68 : +1710.48 = +1.513% (+/-1.57%)
bm_float.py 256552.80 -> 243908.29 : -12644.51 = -4.929% (+/-1.90%)
bm_hexiom.py 521.93 -> 625.41 : +103.48 = +19.826% (+/-0.40%)
bm_nqueens.py 197544.25 -> 217713.12 : +20168.87 = +10.210% (+/-3.01%)
bm_pidigits.py 8072.98 -> 8198.75 : +125.77 = +1.558% (+/-3.22%)
misc_aes.py 17283.45 -> 16480.52 : -802.93 = -4.646% (+/-0.82%)
misc_mandel.py 99083.99 -> 128939.84 : +29855.85 = +30.132% (+/-5.88%)
misc_pystone.py 83860.10 -> 82592.56 : -1267.54 = -1.511% (+/-2.27%)
misc_raytrace.py 21490.40 -> 22227.23 : +736.83 = +3.429% (+/-1.88%)
This shows that the new optimisations are at least as good as the existing
inline-bytecode-caching, and are sometimes much better (because the new
ones apply caching to a wider variety of map lookups).
The new optimisations can also benefit code generated by the native
emitter, because they apply to the runtime rather than the generated code.
The improvement for the native emitter when LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and
MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE are enabled is (same Linux environment as above):
diff of scores (higher is better)
N=2000 M=2000 native -> nat-attrmapcache diff diff% (error%)
bm_chaos.py 14130.62 -> 15464.68 : +1334.06 = +9.441% (+/-7.11%)
bm_fannkuch.py 74.96 -> 76.16 : +1.20 = +1.601% (+/-1.80%)
bm_fft.py 166682.99 -> 168221.86 : +1538.87 = +0.923% (+/-4.20%)
bm_float.py 233415.23 -> 265524.90 : +32109.67 = +13.756% (+/-2.57%)
bm_hexiom.py 628.59 -> 734.17 : +105.58 = +16.796% (+/-1.39%)
bm_nqueens.py 225418.44 -> 232926.45 : +7508.01 = +3.331% (+/-3.10%)
bm_pidigits.py 6322.00 -> 6379.52 : +57.52 = +0.910% (+/-5.62%)
misc_aes.py 20670.10 -> 27223.18 : +6553.08 = +31.703% (+/-1.56%)
misc_mandel.py 138221.11 -> 152014.01 : +13792.90 = +9.979% (+/-2.46%)
misc_pystone.py 85032.14 -> 105681.44 : +20649.30 = +24.284% (+/-2.25%)
misc_raytrace.py 19800.01 -> 23350.73 : +3550.72 = +17.933% (+/-2.79%)
In summary, compared to MICROPY_OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE, the new
MICROPY_OPT_LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE options:
- are simpler;
- take less code size;
- are faster (generally);
- work with code generated by the native emitter;
- can be used on embedded targets with a small and constant RAM overhead;
- allow the same .mpy bytecode to run on all targets.
See #7680 for further discussion. And see also #7653 for a discussion
about simplifying mpy-cross options.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Anywhere a module is mentioned, use its "non-u" name for consistency.
The "import module" vs "import umodule" is something of a FAQ, and this
commit intends to help clear that up. As a first approximation MicroPython
is Python, and so imports should work the same as Python and use the same
name, to a first approximation. The u-version of a module is a detail that
can be learned later on, when the user wants to understand more and have
finer control over importing.
Existing Python code should just work, as much as it is possible to do that
within the constraints of embedded systems, and the MicroPython
documentation should match the idiomatic way to write Python code.
With universal weak links for modules (via MICROPY_MODULE_WEAK_LINKS) users
can consistently use "import foo" across all ports (with the exception of
the minimal ports). And the ability to override/extend via "foo.py"
continues to work well.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This enables warnings as errors and fixes all current errors, namely:
- reference to terms in the glossary must now be explicit (:term:)
- method overloads must not be declared as a separate method or must
use :noindex:
- 2 cases where `` should have been used instead of `
This commit changes the esp8266 boards to use littlefs v2 as the
filesystem, rather than FAT. Since the esp8266 doesn't expose the
filesystem to the PC over USB there's no strong reason to keep it as FAT.
Littlefs is smaller in code size, is more efficient in use of flash to
store data, is resilient over power failure, and using it saves about 4k of
heap RAM, which can now be used for other things.
This is a backwards incompatible change because all existing esp8266 boards
will need to update their filesystem after installing new firmware (eg
backup old files, install firmware, restore files to new filesystem).
As part of this commit the memory layout of the default board (GENERIC) has
changed. It now allocates all 1M of memory-mapped flash to the firmware,
so the filesystem area starts at the 2M point. This is done to allow more
frozen bytecode to be stored in the 1M of memory-mapped flash. This
requires an esp8266 module with 2M or more of flash to work, so a new board
called GENERIC_1M is added which has the old memory-mapping (but still
changed to use littlefs for the filesystem).
In summary there are now 3 esp8266 board definitions:
- GENERIC_512K: for 512k modules, doesn't have a filesystem.
- GENERIC_1M: for 1M modules, 572k for firmware+frozen code, 396k for
filesystem (littlefs).
- GENERIC: for 2M (or greater) modules, 968k for firmware+frozen code,
1M+ for filesystem (littlefs), FAT driver also included in firmware for
use on, eg, external SD cards.
