Quite clever, I like this idea. This will allow us to simplify all
peripheral structures for STM32s a bit.

> On May 14, 2018, at 2:32 PM, Fabio Utzig <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I like the proposed changes!
> 
> Fabio
> 
> On Sun, May 13, 2018, at 1:02 AM, markus wrote:
>> For the pwm driver I took a stab at a more holistic pin descriptor and
>> wanted to solicit feedback and opinions.
>> 
>> The core is in mcu.h:
>> https://github.com/mlampert/mynewt-core/blob/feature/stm32-pwm-enabled/hw/mcu/stm/stm32f7xx/include/mcu/mcu.h
>> 
>> Instead of using a struct data type I decided to go with bit
>> encoding and macros, for the sole reason of API compatibility. A pin
>> descriptor with an AF assignment can be passed to any API that accepts
>> a pin (as long as the type is at least a uint16_t).
>> 
>> For instance, it allows us to fold the functionality of
>> hal_gpio_init_af into hal_gpio_init_in and hal_gpio_init_out and
>> eliminate the stm specific api additions.
>> 
>> Assuming the API allows a 32-bit pin type the encoding can be expanded
>> to pin speed, strength, logic standard (although I haven't seen that in
>> any of the ARMs - yet)....
>> 
>> The other advantage of a bit encoding is that the entire pin descriptor
>> can be defined in a single constant:
>> 
>> /* AF=2 of PB7 */
>> #define PWM_PIN              0x2017
>> And if the GPIO pin is already defined:
>> https://github.com/mlampert/mynewt-core/blob/feature/stm32-pwm-enabled/apps/pwm_test/src/main.c#L27
>> 
>> Internal use currently looks something like this:
>> https://github.com/mlampert/mynewt-core/blob/feature/stm32-pwm-enabled/hw/drivers/pwm/pwm_stm32/src/pwm_stm32.c#L289
>> 
>> with the (stm) hal_gpio refactoring mentioned above that line would
>> simple become:
>>   if (hal_gpio_init_out(cfg->pin, 0)) {
>> 
>> I've only implemented this for the stm32f7 in order to reduce the
>> refactoring effort if we want to go a different direction.
>> 
>> Thoughts? Comments? ...

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