Status: - = Planned. X = In progress, some work done. * = Done. ? = Not sure if worth the effort or useful at all. N = Decided against. Current Pipeline (2.3.x): * Improved Makefile system. * USB driver enhancements. * USB and USB_SERIAL APIs reclassification. * Incorporate the USB bus attach/detach handling in usbStart()/usbStop(). * Fix zero size packets handling in USB_SERIAL driver. ? USB double buffering support for STM32 implementation. X Evaluate using DMA channels for buffer copy. X I2C device driver class support and at least one implementation. X Evaluate a modified I2C API where the synchronous mode is default and the callback mode optional. - Software I2C implementation using a GPT instance for timings. * STM32F2xx/STM32F4xx support (adapt and re-verify all drivers). * New STM32 DMA helper driver abstracting differences between STM32F2xx/STM32F4xx and other sub-families. * Specific ADC driver for STM32F2xx/STM32F4xx. - MMC_SPI driver revision and speedup. - FatFs 0.9x integration. - FPU support in CM4 port. - Nios II support. - LPC17xx support. - Static memory allocation hook macros in kernel code. ? Revision of scheduling strategy for threads at equal priority. Within 2.x.x X File System infrastructure. X Implement the "transmission end" serial driver event on those platforms supporting the feature, so far only done in STM32 driver. - Add a CH_THREAD macro for threads declaration in order to hide compiler-specific optimizations for thread functions. All demos will have to be updated. - Test suite overhaul, the API should be more generic in order to be used with different subsystems and not just the kernel. - Reduce number of demos globally, add demos to a repository or on web site. Required in order to reduce support effort. - MAC driver for STM32F107. - FatFs wrapper. - New device driver models: Clock, Systick, RTC, WDG, DAC, Power Monitor. - Add UART4 support to the STM32 UART driver (CL line only, HD has a nasty shared interrupt). - STM32 OTG USB cell support for CL devices. - Add ADC3 support to the STM32 ADC driver. - Shared DMA channels support in the STM8L HAL. - Device drivers for STM8/STM8L (ADC, PWM, bring them on par with STM32). - Device drivers for LPC1xxx (ADC, PWM, bring them on par with STM32). - Implement USB Mass Storage Class support and demo using the MMC_SPI driver as back-end. - Batch testing of the ARM7/ARMCMx port using OpenOCD, with reports. X Transactional flash file system implementation. - Serial over UART complex driver driver, evaluate from the performance results if to make obsolete the current dedicated Serial driver. - Official segmented interrupts support and abstraction in CMx port. - MAC driver revision in order to support copy-less operations, this will require changes to lwIP or a new TCP/IP stack however. - Update C++ wrapper (Heap, Pools, Mailboxes and any new feature). - Threads Pools manager in the library. - Dedicated TCP/IP stack. ? Evaluate if change thread functions to return void is worthwhile. ? Add a *very simple* ADC API for single one shot sampling (implement it as an injected conversion on the STM32). ? Add a switch to enable/disable the priority inheritance algorithm in mutexes. ? ISO7816 driver over UART driver, both reader and card side. ? Merge the Coldfire branch in mainline (hardware missing). ? Merge the H8S branch in mainline (hardware missing). Ideas for 3.x.x: - MMU/MPU support. - High resolution timers and tickless kernel. - Multicore support. Side projects: X ChibiOS Wizard, UML modeling and ChibiOS applications code and documentation generator. - Visual debugger/monitor interfaced through OpenOCD.