rodb70 / longan_nano

GD32VF103 longan nano demo

longan_nano

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I ordered this from Aliexpress expecting GD32VF103CBT6 but GD32VF103C8T6 came, which is smaller in flash/sram size. Just ordered real CBT6.

Status

1. debug setup
   FT2232H based JTAG debugging works quite ok.
   Connection is

   FT2232H	GD32VF103
   ADBUS0	TCK
   ADBUS1	TDI
   ADBUS2	TDO
   ADBUS3	TMS
   nSRST	Reset

   In project template directory, invoke openocd like
   ../riscv-openocd/your OS/openocd -f ./openocd.cfg

   it seems to be working but needs more experiment.
   Especially I wonder if we really have to go with SRST connected to Reset.
   There could be an workaround using system reset of ECLIC.
   GDB "info threads" with FreeRTOS not working.
   There is no OpenOCD support for RISC-V yet for this.

2. basic documentation (in progress )
   ...

3. FreeRTOS template ( in progress )
   basically demo is working but I had to modify portASM.S.
   The issue was mcause bit encoding. It surely seems different from
   standard RISC-V literature. And I'm not sure interrupt handling is being done properly.
   It's just too hard to read the chinese Bumblebee core document.

4. GD32VF103 variants Just edit TARGET_VARIANT in Makefile.
   For C8T6, set it to c8t6
   For CBT6, set it to cbt6

5. Makefile cleanup (in progress)
   Maybe it's much better to move Makefiles to top level template Makefile and
   include it for specific project through make variables definitions and overrides.

6. Bumblebee core english translation
   This is a pain in the ass!

7. JLinkGDBServer Command