From: devel@... <devel@...> On Behalf Of frv
Sent: 20 November 2018 10:53
To: devel@...
Subject: [Zephyr-devel] Zephyr BLE Controller Nordic HW no longer related to SoftDevice?

 

Hi Community, Carles,

 

Without having looking into the details for the HCI_UART implementation when using Zephyr RTOS as SW platform for implementing the BLE controller on Nordic HW, the SoftDevice is no longer present in the SW stack. Correct?

 

Is it further correct to say that the SoftDevice SW which is Nordic specific replaces the standard HCI way on which BlueZ is based.  

 

I base my understandings on this nice written document:

https://www.zephyrproject.org/building-a-qualified-ble-controller-with-zephyr-os-1-9/

 

Thanks in advance,

Best regards,

Frank

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 9:55 PM <rangineni.balu@...> wrote:

Hi Team,

I am just getting started with Zephyr and trying to setup development environment. I followed all the steps described to setup ARM GNU GCC toolchain and compilation ENV.
After setting up everything required, I got the following error after trying to compile a sample project.

"
CMake Error at ../../cmake/extensions.cmake:1086 (message):
Assertion failed: The toolchain is unable to build a dummy C file. See
CMakeError.log.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
../../CMakeLists.txt:28 (assert)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "../zephyr/samples/hello_world/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "../zephyr/samples/hello_world/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
""

I went through the log files and it seems build failed at following

""
The output was:
1
c:/gnu_arm_embedded/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/7.3.1/../../../../arm-none-eabi/lib\libc.a(lib_a-exit.o): In function `exit':
exit.c:(.text.exit+0x2c): undefined reference to `_exit'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status""

Seems ARM compiler issue, after bit of google found out that these options "--specs=nosys.specs" needs to be passed as command line params to run gcc.
I am not able to figure out where i can exactly instruct build environment to use these command line options for GCC.

I have attached both error and output log.
Any help will be appreciated to be able to compile a project successfully.

Thanks,
Balasubramanyam Rangineni

-----Original Message-----
From: <devel@...> on behalf of Jon Pry <jon@...>
Date: Thursday, 15 November 2018 at 5:54 PM
To: "devel@..." <devel@...>
Subject: [Zephyr-devel] NRF52 Scanning stops without indication




Hi,

We are running continuous active scan on NRF52 with duplicate filtering disabled. Under some circumstances all scan data stops being generated. This has been difficult to reproduce but is a serious bug for our application. It takes thousands of hours of
device run time for us to create and identify this issue. I was able to capture a memory dump of such a device and am trying to examine it for any indication of the problem. I'm looking primarily at _radio state, but if anyone has any pointers I would appreciate
it. The zephyr version that create this dump is master branch as of 10/26.


(gdb) p 'ctrl.c'::_radio
$20 = {
hf_clock = 0x20007668 <__device_clock_nrf5_m16src>,
entropy = 0x20007680 <__device_entropy_nrf5>,
ticks_anchor = 3215498,
remainder_anchor = 0,
is_k32src_stable = 1 '\001',
ticker_id_prepare = 5 '\005',
ticker_id_event = 0 '\000',
ticker_id_stop = 0 '\000',
role = ROLE_NONE,
state = STATE_NONE,
advertiser = {
hdr = {
ticks_xtal_to_start = 39,
ticks_active_to_start = 0,
ticks_preempt_to_start = 0,
ticks_slot = 150
},
chan_map_current = 0 '\000',
rfu = 0 '\000',
is_hdcd = 0 '\000',
is_enabled = 1 '\001',
phy_p = 1 '\001',
chan_map = 7 '\a',
filter_policy = 0 '\000',
rl_idx = 255 '\377',
adv_data = {
data = {"`\033\070\r\230X't\002\001\004\021\a\236\312\334$\016\345\251\340\223\363\243\265\001\000@n\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000", "`\033\070\r\230X't\002\001\004\021\a\236\312\334$\016\345\251\340\223\363\243\265\001\000@n\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000"},
first = 0 '\000',
last = 0 '\000'
},
scan_data = {
data = {"D\022\070\r\230X't\v\tStarGateΛ", '\000' <repeats 18 times>, "D\022\070\r\230X't\v\tStarGateΛ", '\000' <repeats 18 times>},
first = 0 '\000',
last = 0 '\000'
},
conn = 0x20002220 <_radio>
},
scanner = {
hdr = {
ticks_xtal_to_start = 39,
ticks_active_to_start = 0,
ticks_preempt_to_start = 10,
ticks_slot = 5948
},
is_enabled = 1 '\001',
state = 0 '\000',
chan = 0 '\000',
rfu = 0 '\000',
phy = 0 '\000',
type = 1 '\001',
filter_policy = 0 '\000',
adv_addr_type = 0 '\000',
init_addr_type = 1 '\001',
rpa_gen = 1 '\001',
rl_idx = 255 '\377',
init_addr = "8\r\230X't",
adv_addr = "\344\350\016\036\341", <incomplete sequence \364>,
ticks_window = 5939,
conn_interval = 40,
conn_latency = 0,
conn_timeout = 400,
ticks_conn_slot = 37,
conn = 0x0 <z_clock_driver_init>,
win_offset_us = 2
},
conn_pool = 0x20002220 <_radio>,
conn_free = 0x0 <z_clock_driver_init>,
connection_count = 1 '\001',
conn_curr = 0x0 <z_clock_driver_init>,
packet_counter = 1 '\001',
crc_expire = 0 '\000',
data_chan_map = "\377\377\377\377\037",
data_chan_count = 37 '%',
sca = 5 '\005',
default_tx_octets = 27,
default_tx_time = 328,
default_phy_tx = 3,
default_phy_rx = 3,
pkt_rx_data_pool = 0x200023d8 <_radio+440>,
pkt_rx_data_free = 0x0 <z_clock_driver_init>,
packet_data_octets_max = 27,
packet_rx_data_pool_size = 208,
packet_rx_data_size = 52,
packet_rx_data_count = 4 '\004',
packet_rx = 0x20002374 <_radio+340>,
packet_rx_count = 5 '\005',
packet_rx_last = 0 '\000',
packet_rx_acquire = 2 '\002',
link_rx_pool = 0x200024a8 <_radio+648>,
link_rx_free = 0x200024d0 <_radio+688>,
link_rx_head = 0x200024a8 <_radio+648>,
link_rx_tail = 0x200024a8 <_radio+648>,
link_rx_data_quota = 2 '\002',
pkt_tx_ctrl_pool = 0x200024d8 <_radio+696>,
pkt_tx_ctrl_free = 0x200024d8 <_radio+696>,
pkt_tx_data_pool = 0x20002520 <_radio+768>,
pkt_tx_data_free = 0x20002520 <_radio+768>,
packet_tx_data_size = 36,
pkt_tx = 0x20002388 <_radio+360>,
pkt_release = 0x200023b0 <_radio+400>,
packet_tx_count = 5 '\005',
packet_tx_first = 1 '\001',
packet_tx_last = 1 '\001',
packet_release_first = 1 '\001',
packet_release_last = 1 '\001',
fc_handle = {0, 0, 0},
fc_req = 2 '\002',
fc_ack = 2 '\002',
fc_ena = 1 '\001',
ticks_active_to_start = 0,
conn_upd = 0x0 <z_clock_driver_init>
}

Thanks,

Jon Pry