Important disclaimer:

This is not an officially supported Google product

Embedded Shell

A Terminal like interface over UART.

• Targeted at embedded systems engineers and researchers who want to explore the hardware by writing small functions that can be triggered from a shell like interface.
• A UART based shell that enables finer control of CPU by allowing functions to be exposed as commands to be triggered from the prompt.
• Low memory footprint of < 4kB

this is a perfect tool for getting up and running with a new board in less than 1 hour.

Features:

• Low footprint shell implementation.
• Commands with same foot print as int main(int argc, char* argv[]){}
• Export function as command using a macro (ADD_CMD() available in shell.h).
• Supported Languages: C, C++ and Assembly.
• Automatic source file discovery
  • .c, .cpp and .S source files in the Project and shell directory are automatically picked for compilation (No need to modify any Makefile. The build system automatically figrues the source files).
• Automatic Header discovery.
  • location for .h and .hpp files is automatically passed to the compiler for header file lookup.

Supported Processors/Architectures

examples/ implements a hello world example for the processor variety listed below:

Architecture	Processor	Example Location	Board
ARM v7 A-class 32 bit	Cortex-a7 (quadcore)	examples/emulation/armv7A-32-Rpi2	raspberry pi 2b (Emulated on Qemu)
ARM v8 A-class 32 bit	Cortex-a53	examples/emulation/armv8A-32-RPi3b	raspberry pi 3b (Emulated on Qemu)
ARM v7 M-class 32 bit	Cortex-m3	examples/emulation/armv7M-32	mps2-an385 (Emulated on Qemu)
ARM v8 A-class 64 bit	Cortex-a72	examples/emulation/armv8A-64	virt (Emulated on Qemu)
ARM v8 A-class 64 bit	Cortex-a72 (quadcore)	examples/emulation/armv8A-64-smp (multicore)	virt (Emulated on Qemu)
ARM v8 M-class 32 bit	Cortex-m33 (dualcore)	examples/emulation/armv8M-32 (multicore)	mps3-an524 (Emulated on Qemu)
RISC-V 64 bit	rv64g	examples/emulation/riscv-64	virt (Emulated on Qemu)
RISC-V 32 bit (RV32IMAC)	SiFive E31	examples/physical/hifive	hifive1-revb (Physical Board)
ARM v7 M-class 32 bit	Cortex-m4	examples/physical/nucleo-f401re	nucleo-f401re (Physical Board)
ARM v7 M-class 32 bit	Cortex-m4	examples/physical/tiva-c	tiva-c (Physical Board)

Quick Setup

Execute ./manage -s or .scripts/setup to install all the dependencies.

Quick Demo

Following is a run of example in examples/emulation/riscv-64

cd examples/emulation/riscv-64
make
make run

If you haven't done the Quick Setup as noted above, you'll need to install following utilities:

sudo apt install -y binutils make binutils-riscv64-linux-gnu gcc-riscv64-linux-gnu g++-riscv64-linux-gnu \
                    qemu-system-riscv64
wget -P ~ https://git.io/.gdbinit
pip3 install pygments

Further, gdb based debugging can also be done by running the following commands in two separate terminals:

make debug

and

make gdb

You should see similar output as in above visual.

Documentation

• To be able to run all the example and create your own project follow the documentation in docs/.
• It also provides details about the internal workings of shell and how to setup your own project.

Table of contents

Topic	Description
How shell Works	Explains the working of shell with a flowchart.
Running examples in example/	Guides on getting started with trying examples. Includes topics like - - installing dependences - qemu based targets - physical board based targets - debugging etc
Setting up new project	Details on how to start setting up a new project.
Platform initialization and uart driver	Details the implementation of the platform_init() and the relation to the uart driver.
Uart driver	Describes implementation and constraint on the uart driver.
User Linker Scripts	Guides on how a liner script should be written if the user wants to manually set the memory layout and do the code placement.

Contributing

Topic	Description
Code of Conduct	Guides on the conduct expected while making contributions.
Contributing	Guidelines on how to contribute to the code on GitHub.

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