Neotron Common BIOS

This crate contains the BIOS API and common routines for all Neotron systems.

Hardware

Neotron runs on a variety of ARM Cortex-M based systems.

Status

This BIOS API crate is a work in progress.

License

Copyright (C) The Neotron Developers, 2019-2022

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Changelog

Unreleased Changes

• None

v0.8.0

• audio_mixer_channel_get_info now returns an Option not Result
• Add impl From<core::option::Option for Option
• Add impl From<Option for core::option::Option
• Add impl From<core::result::Result for Result
• Add impl From<Result for core::result::Result
• Clarify that some parameters are actually expected to be numeric IDs
• Use pc-keyboard::KeyCode to define Key Codes.

v0.7.0

• Change time_get to time_clock_get
• Change time_set to time_clock_set
• Add time_ticks_get and time_ticks_per_second
• Add bus_interrupt_status
• Remove delay
• Add back in the block_XXX API for reading/writing Block Devices.
• Add idle function.
• memory_get_region returns Option, not Result
• Fix epoch used in conversion to chrono timestamp.

v0.6.1

• No changes - v0.6.0 release was incorrect so re-releasing

v0.6.0

• Removed 'block_X' APIs
• Added 'bus_X' APIs
• Added 'audio_X' APIs
• Added 'i2c_X' APIs
• Added 'videoget/setpalette' APIs
• Added 'delay' API

v0.5.0

• Added serial_read API
• Added video_mode_needs_vram API
• Added hid_get_event API
• Added hid_set_leds API
• Added video_wait_for_line API
• Added block_dev_get_info API
• Added block_write API
• Added block_read API
• Added block_verify API

v0.4.0

• Changed memory_get_region to return a MemoryRegion
• Changed video_set_framebuffer to take a *const u8 not *mut u8 - as the BIOS doesn't change video RAM.

v0.3.0

• First published version. Cargo.toml reports at 0.1.0.