- As it is always only used for the vehicle command ack message
- It was a duplicate, hence making it error prone for maintainment
- The uORB message comments were updated to make the relationship with
the MAVLink message / enum definitions clear
internal PX4IO safety_off state is removed and replaced with a normal safety button event. From this 'commit' commander is taking care of the PX4IO safety.
internal PX4IO safety_off state is removed and replaced with a normal safety button event. From this 'commit' commander is taking care of the PX4IO safety.
This fixes an invalid memory access when exiting the module:
exit_and_cleanup destroys the object, but lock_guard is destructed after
and accesses the lock.
- fixes the deadlock in px4io ioctl mixer reset
- px4io Run() locks (CDev semaphore)
- mixer load goes through px4io ioctl MIXERIOCRESET which calls MixingOutput::resetMixerThreadSafe()
- MixingOutput::resetMixerThreadSafe() stores a Command::Type::resetMixer command in an atomic variable, schedules a work queue cycle, then sleep spins until the command is cleared
- the execution of the cycle eventually calls back into PX4IO::updateOutputs(), which tries to lock (and waits forever)
- previously an invalid decode would continue to be transferred to the FMU (at 50 Hz) and published to the rest of the system as successfully decoded new RC data
- by only publishing new successful decodes we can more effectively discard invalid data in downstream consumers
and remove the possibility to set min > max to reverse.
Initially the idea was to add the checkbox on the UI side, to avoid adding
another param, but I don't think I'll go through the extra effort on the
QGC side.
- cmake NuttX build wrapper compile in place instead of copying source tree to build directory
- slightly faster skipping necessary copying (depending on system)
- allows debugging in place
- easier to work directly in NuttX following official documentation
- simplifies overall build which should make it easier to resolve any remaining NuttX dependency issues in the build system
- the downside is switching back and forth between different builds always require rebuilding NuttX, but I think this is worth the improved developer experience
- also no longer builds px4io and bootloader in every single build, for most users these rarely change and we're wasting a lot of build time
The current practice of adding topics to the default set isn't scalable,
as it affects all setups.
By making sure topics are advertised on init, logger can just discard
topics that don't exist. This does not work for all topics, so topics are
specifically marked as optional. It can be extended to more topics later
on though.
This reduces the list of topics by ~35 on a pixracer configured as quad,
and reduces RAM usage by ~1KB.
The defaults changed in the previous commit for per-channel params,
so we make sure that the overall params are still used as long as the
per-channel params are default.
Using mixers on the IO side had a remote benefit of being able to
override all control surfaces with a radio remote on a fixed wing.
This ended up not being used that much and since the original design
10 years ago (2011) we have been able to convince ourselves that the
overall system stability is at a level where this marginal benefit,
which is not present on multicopters, is not worth the hazzle.
Co-authored-by: Beat Küng <beat-kueng@gmx.net>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Agar <daniel@agar.ca>
chris1seto