nes-proj/cpu
Robert Quattlebaum 28a1e40ebd core/lib/settings: Generalized Settings Manager to work on any platform
This commit moves the Settings Manager from the AVR codebase
into the Contiki core library. Any platform that implements
the Contiki EEPROM API can now use the Settings Manager's
key-value store for storing their persistent configuration info.

The Settings Manager is a EEPROM-based key-value store. Keys
are 16-bit integers and values may be up to 16,383 bytes long.
It is intended to be used to store configuration-related information,
like network settings, radio channels, etc.

 * Robust data format which requires no initialization.
 * Supports multiple values with the same key.
 * Data can be appended without erasing EEPROM.
 * Max size of settings data can be easily increased in the future,
   as long as it doesn't overlap with application data.

The format was inspired by the [OLPC manufacturing data format][].

Since the beginning of EEPROM often contains application-specific
information, the best place to store settings is at the end of EEPROM
(the "top"). Because we are starting at the end of EEPROM, it makes
sense to grow the list of key-value pairs downward, toward the start of
EEPROM.

Each key-value pair is stored in memory in the following format:

Order    | Size     | Name         | Description
--------:|---------:|--------------|-------------------------------
       0 |        2 | `key`        | 16-bit key
      -2 |        1 | `size_check` | One's-complement of next byte
      -3 |   1 or 2 | `size`       | The size of `value`, in bytes
-4 or -5 | variable | `value`      | Value associated with `key`

The end of the key-value pairs is denoted by the first invalid entry.
An invalid entry has any of the following attributes:

 * The `size_check` byte doesn't match the one's compliment of the
   `size` byte (or `size_low` byte).
 * The key has a value of 0x0000.

[OLPC manufacturing data format]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data
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6502 Added configurations of the new resolver. 2013-03-14 23:17:59 +01:00
arm core/net/uip: Rename uip_ethaddr to uip_lladdr. 2013-03-10 11:39:11 -07:00
avr core/lib/settings: Generalized Settings Manager to work on any platform 2013-03-20 11:57:13 -07:00
cc253x Fix a syntax error in /cpu/cc253x/dev/uart0.c 2013-03-16 19:41:42 +08:00
cc2430 Code style fixes: cc2430 2012-12-16 19:28:55 +00:00
mc1322x Use the RTC only as the main timer. 2013-02-03 15:15:05 -05:00
msp430 Baudrate now is configured taking into account the MCU frequency, instead of using fixed values for 8MHz freq 2013-01-29 12:23:23 +01:00
native tapdev: Log to stderr; add tracing 2013-03-19 19:41:20 +01:00
pic32 minor corrections to adhere contiki code style guidelines 2012-12-21 12:36:29 +01:00
stm32w108 Cleanup and refactoring of the STM32w port 2013-03-18 13:31:26 +01:00
x86 avoid unnecessary symbols.c/h copying 2012-03-26 23:00:43 +02:00
z80 Removed all old RCS tags in the Contiki source tree. Those RCS tags are not used any more, as we are now using git to manage the Contiki source tree 2012-10-26 15:54:49 +02:00