The voxl2 has a split architecture. PX4 runs on a posix platform and a Qurt platform. The two communicate uorb topics back and forth with the muorb module. But each has it's own parameters database and they need to stay in sync with each other. This PR adds support to keep the 2 parameter databases in sync. The main parameters database running on Linux has file system support while the Qurt one does not. The Linux side is considered the primary and the Qurt side is considered the remote.
Previously uORB queue size was an awkward mix of runtime configurable (at advertise or IOCTL before allocate), but effectively static with all queue size settings (outside of test code) actually coming from the topic declaration (presently ORB_QUEUE_LENGTH in the .msg). This change finally resolves the inconsistency making the queue size fully static.
Additionally there were some corner cases that the muorb and orb communicator implementation were not correctly handling. This PR provides fixes for those issues. Also correctly sets remote queue lengths now based on the topic definitions.
* Made setting of uORB topic queue size in based on topic definition only
* Fixes to the ModalAI muorb implementation
* Removed libfc sensor from format checks
* msg/TransponderReport.msg ORB_QUEUE_LENGTH 8->16 (was set to higher in AdsbConflict.h
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Co-authored-by: Eric Katzfey <eric.katzfey@modalai.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Agar <daniel@agar.ca>
Move some logic from Subscriber into uORBManager. This reduces calls from the
modules to the uORB manager, improving performance in protected build.
Signed-off-by: Jukka Laitinen <jukkax@ssrc.tii.ae>
It was a mistake to mix these two together, it is simpler to implement the boardctl interface
for the protected build, if the boardctl ioctls are different
Signed-off-by: Jukka Laitinen <jukkax@ssrc.tii.ae>
When building uORB for NuttX flat build, or for some other target, everything
works as before.
When building uORB for NuttX protected or kernel build, this does the following:
- The kernel side uORB library reigsters a boardctl handler for calls from userspace
and services the boardctl_ioctls by calling the actual uORB functions
- For user mode binaries, the uORBManager acts as a proxy, making boardctl_ioctl calls to the
kernel side
Signed-off-by: Jukka Laitinen <jukkax@ssrc.tii.ae>
Proxy all calls to the DeviceNode through Manager;
- This hides the DeviceNode from publishers and subscribers
- Manager can be made an interface class between user and kernel spaces in protected build
- This doesn't increase code size or harm the performance on flat build
Signed-off-by: Jukka Laitinen <jukkax@ssrc.tii.ae>
Eric Katzfey