This crate provides access to the Uart0(Pl011) and Uart1 (miniUART) peripheral of the Raspberry Pi. This is quite helpful during bare metal development to use a terminal console connected to the miniUART of the Raspberry Pi to get some debug information printed while the program is executed on the device. Especialy if the program is in a state where there is no other output option and blinking LEDs are not sufficient.
To use the crate just add the following dependency to your Cargo.toml file:
toml
[dependencies]
ruspiro-uart = "0.3"
Once done the access to the UART abstraction is available in your rust files like so:
```rust use ruspiro_uart::Uart1;
fn demo() { let mut uart = Uart1::new(); if uart.initialize(250000000, 115200).isok() { uart.send_string("This is some string"); } } ```
In this example the Uart1 will be no longer be available once it goes out of scope. Whichs makes it a bit cumbersome to use it in a real world example. Therefore the proposed usage of the UART is to use it as a generic console output channel. To do so, please refer to the ruspiro-console crate. But in case you would like to use the uart without the console abstraction it is recommended to wrap it into a singleton to guaranty safe cross core access and only 1 time initialization. In the example we pass a fixed core clock rate to the initialization function. However, the real core clock rate could be optained with a call to the mailbox property tag interface of the Raspberry Pi (see ruspiro-mailbox for details.). This mailbox crate is not linked into the Uart crate to ensure usability of this crate with as less dependencies as possible.
```rust use ruspirosingleton::Singleton; // don't forget the dependency to be setup use ruspirouart::Uart1;
static UART: Singleton
fn demo() { let _ = UART.takefor(|uart| uart.initialize(250000000, 115200)).expect("unable to init uart1");
print_something("Hello Uart...");
}
fn printsomething(s: &str) { UART.takefor(|uart| uart.send_string(s)); } ```
Licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)