stm32f4xx-hal VS liburing

I would personally use the abstractions provided by the stm32f4xx-hal crate more. See https://github.com/stm32-rs/stm32f4xx-hal/tree/master/examples/ for examples.

For this project, the audio ended up being the biggest challenge. I spent a few days on-and-off working on it because it would stop working as I modified the PWM frequency. I was eventually able to track it down to a bug in the HAL and opened a PR accordingly: https://github.com/stm32-rs/stm32f4xx-hal/pull/555

For my specific issue, I'm using the stm32f4xx-hal library to control a bunch of RGB leds, each with a pwm output. Since I have to get pins and timers where I can find them, each component of the led is made by something like

At the time of writing this post, I noticed that if going with option 1 stated earlier that returns a PWMChannel can prove to be quite problematic. In navigating the documentation, the PWMChannel implementations do not include methods that allow to get and set the period of the peripheral. There is an issue that I submitted here for that.

Maybe check out this example from the stm324xx-hal repo?

Here is an example for stm32f407 (trivial to change to stm32f411) that gets random numbers from the rng peripheral and displays them on an ssd1306 display: https://github.com/stm32-rs/stm32f4xx-hal/blob/master/examples/rng-display.rs although this uses Rust, which you may or may not like. Arduino will have you covered as well, obviously.

A major benefit of Rust in embedded is how easy it is to use libraries. This example implements USB serial communication on an STM32 in under 80 lines. You add some libs and if it compiles it works.

I've tinkered around with io_uring on and off for the last couple years. But I think it's really becoming quite cool (not that it wasn't cool before... :)). This was a really interesting post on what's new https://github.com/axboe/liburing/wiki/io_uring-and-networki.... The combination of ring-mapped buffers and multi-shot operations has some really interesting applications for high-performance networking. Hoping over the next year or two we can start to see really bleeding edge networking perf without having to resort to using DPDK :)

Thought I was doing something wrong at first, but after looking at examples and code, I just wasn't able to reach the epoll numbers. Looking on the Github page, there a few issues there with people who found the same thing, with their own examples. #1, #2

To address my own silly questions, yes, one should use the new fixed buffers described in this document: https://github.com/axboe/liburing/wiki/io_uring-and-networki...

We're working on this! https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/830

Link: https://github.com/axboe/liburing/wiki/io_uring-and-networking-in-2023