The documentation grew one page at a time, so the tree follows the
history of who wrote what and not the shape of NuttX. Scheduling is
spread over three places, a driver page can sit above the subsystem
that owns it, and the front page lists everything at the same level.
That is a lot to face when all you want to know is where the scheduler
lives.
This change files every page under the code it describes. It is a move,
not a rewrite: outside the ten pages named below, every page keeps the
text that is already in master, and no page's text is deleted.
What it does:
* Groups the table of contents into nine chapters.
* Moves the OS subsystems under os/: scheduling, memory, drivers,
filesystem, networking, IPC, interrupts, libs, time.
* Renames the platform pages to the names the source tree uses, and
derives their tags from the tree instead of by hand.
* Splits guides/ by subject.
* Adds Documentation/redirects.py, with a rule for every page that left
its old path, so old URLs keep working. The redirect page also carries
a link's #anchor across to the new page.
Ten pages have text that is new or rewritten. Nine of them are the
landing page of a chapter, which has to exist for the new structure:
index the front page
os/index OS Design
os/scheduling/index Scheduling
os/interrupts/index Interrupts
os/ipc/index IPC
os/time/index Time and timers
about/index About
developing/index Developing NuttX
ReleaseNotes/index Release notes
The tenth is os/libs/libbuiltin, the only page here with technical
content: libs/libbuiltin/ had no page at all. Five SVG diagrams come
with these pages, hand-written XML with no editor metadata.
Nothing outside Documentation/ is touched.
How it was checked:
* Sphinx builds with -W: no warnings, and no document left outside a
toctree.
* A script, offered in the PR, proves the narrow claim this rests on.
For every page outside the ten named above it erases what a move
touches -- link target, path, tag line, toctree block, table border --
from the whole old text and the whole new text, and requires the two
to be byte for byte identical. It also requires every sentence of a
deleted page to turn up somewhere, and every page that left its old
path to have a redirect, from a URL that existed, to where its content
went. It exits non-zero and names the page if any of that is not true,
and it tests added pages too, so forgetting to declare one cannot make
it pass.
* An independent audit checked 133 factual claims on these ten pages
against the tree, one shell command per claim: 130 confirmed, 1
refuted and fixed here, 2 not checkable.
* tools/checkpatch.sh is clean over the range.
The diff is large because moving a page changes every link that points
to it. Most of it is pure renames, and board pages that gained one tag
line.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
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NuttX-5.1
This is the 48th release of NuttX. This release adds support for two new MCU architectures in various states of development:
This release adds support for the SAM3U-EK development board with the AT91SAM3U4E MCU (http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card_mcu.asp?part_id=4562). As with most NuttX architecture releases, the release will be rolled out in two parts: A basic port and an extended port.
NuttX-5.1 includes the basic port for the SAM3U-EK board. This release passes the NuttX OS test and is proven to have a valid OS implementation. It supports the basic boot-up, serial console and timer interrupts. A configuration to support the NuttShell is also included.
The extended port will also include support for SDIO-based SD cards and USB device (and possible LCD support). These extensions may or may not happen by the NuttX 5.2 release as my plate is kind of full now.
This release also adds the complete implementation of the basic port for the NXP LPC3131 MCU on the Embedded Artists EA3131 board (http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/kits/lpc3131_kit.php). That port, unfortunately has stalled due to tools issues. Those tool issues have been resolved and I am confident that the verified basic port will be available in NuttX-5.2.
The extended release will follow and should include SDIO-based SD card support and device USB.
A few additional features and bugfixes of a minor nature were also incorporated as detailed in the ChangeLog.