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| author | Ayke van Laethem | 2017-11-21 18:16:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Damien George | 2018-07-18 17:12:25 +1000 |
| commit | 03b8429c0cf182f89fea8883cfc005dbb041ba2f (patch) | |
| tree | 9e9172136046faf2c7b5cf9f89c215b916edfeb8 | |
| parent | b493de75f33fecc14cdf2d5d2c4faf0079d13662 (diff) | |
nrf: Remove default FROZEN_MPY_DIR.
Saves 448 bytes of flash. Can still be enabled using:
make FROZEN_MPY_DIR=freeze BOARD=foo
| -rw-r--r-- | ports/nrf/Makefile | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | ports/nrf/README.md | 14 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ports/nrf/Makefile b/ports/nrf/Makefile index 1a475bcac..eb3e78786 100644 --- a/ports/nrf/Makefile +++ b/ports/nrf/Makefile @@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ endif # qstr definitions (must come before including py.mk) QSTR_DEFS = qstrdefsport.h $(BUILD)/pins_qstr.h -FROZEN_MPY_DIR = freeze - # include py core make definitions include ../../py/py.mk diff --git a/ports/nrf/README.md b/ports/nrf/README.md index d1c292e7d..839211d2c 100644 --- a/ports/nrf/README.md +++ b/ports/nrf/README.md @@ -72,6 +72,20 @@ The **make sd** will trigger a flash of the bluetooth stack before that applicat Note: further tuning of features to include in bluetooth or even setting up the device to use REPL over Bluetooth can be configured in the `bluetooth_conf.h`. +## Compile with frozen modules + +Frozen modules are Python modules compiled to bytecode and added to the firmware +image, as part of MicroPython. They can be imported as usual, using the `import` +statement. The advantage is that frozen modules use a lot less RAM as the +bytecode is stored in flash, not in RAM like when importing from a filesystem. +Also, frozen modules are available even when no filesystem is present to import +from. + +To use frozen modules, put them in a directory (e.g. `freeze/`) and supply +`make` with the given directory. For example: + + make BOARD=pca10040 FROZEN_MPY_DIR=freeze + ## Target Boards and Make Flags Target Board (BOARD) | Bluetooth Stack (SD) | Bluetooth Support | Flash Util |
