It's useful to know when only default USB power is available, as opposed
to when some mechanism for negotiating higher power is available but it
isn't possible to get high enough power. This can let users know e.g.
using a USB A to C cable can't provide high power, potentially reducing
confusion.
The blink code for this is 1 7/8 s on, 1/8 s off. I think this is
sufficiently unlike other blink patterns that it won't cause any
confusion.
(cherry picked from commit b4680ab723)
/!\ BROKEN BUILD /!\
This commit moves the library code to the library directory. This
causes the firmware to not compile. A few changes were made to reduce
the nubmer of errors, but some errors just aren't going to go away until
I go ahead with the planned changes.
The GUI will have a button to identify a particular PD Buddy Sink, in
case several are connected to the computer at once. The button will
cause the LED to blink quickly for a couple seconds, then go back to
normal. To allow this, I added a new LED blink mode (FAST_BLINK_SLOW)
that causes 8 fast blinks, then returns to SLOW_BLINK mode. A new
"identify" command triggers this LED mode.
The command shell is based on the ChibiOS-provided one, but modified to
not run in a new thread and generally be a bit simpler, while also
having PD Buddy branding. The storage functions work with the STM32
flash registers directly, taking over the last page of flash. A new
linker script is used to ensure that program code can't end up using
that page. The DPM has been updated to use the saved settings rather
than hardcoded ones. Now what's needed is real commands for editing the
configuration.
Added commands to edit configuration
We now have commands to load the current settings into RAM, edit the
settings in RAM, and write them back to flash. The only settings
currently supported are current and fixed voltage, because the rest of
the code doesn't support GiveBack or variable/battery PDOs yet.
Short help messages were added for each command. Nothing too exciting,
but it should be a great help for someone poking around in the PD Buddy
Sink configuration shell for the first time.
Wrote new usage information for the firmware
Now that we have a command shell, the README should indicate how to use
it.
There are still a few things that the standard says we Shall do and we
don't, but it Works For Me™. I haven't implemented anything with
regards to GiveBack support, but that doesn't matter just yet. Our
handling of VDMs isn't quite right either. Anyway, it successfully
negotiates with so-called Split PDO power supplies, which is more than I
can say about some commercial products.
Clara Hobbs