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Add an un-supported board for ESP8266 in web site. #653

Closed nkolban closed 8 years ago

nkolban commented 9 years ago

In the boards page found here:

http://www.espruino.com/Reference#boards

It is approaching time to consider adding the ESP8266. I suggest a picture of the NodeMCU board with content for NodeMCU and commentary that any ESP8266 hosting board will work (ESP-1, ESP-12, Huzzah and more). Since this would appear on a primary Espruino page, permission and concurrence from @gfwilliams must be obtained.

gfwilliams commented 9 years ago

Yes, that'd be fine.

You'll want to make sure the image and CSS in BOARD.py matches up nicely first.

IIRC scripts/build_board_docs.py is the thing that builds the HTML you need to check

nkolban commented 9 years ago

A somewhat related forum discussion can be found here:

http://forum.espruino.com/conversations/276005/

tve commented 9 years ago

672 provides 90% of what's needed for an esp8266_12 board. Someone else will have to do an esp8266_01 board :-)

nkolban commented 9 years ago

What is the background to having multiple ESP8266 boards as opposed to just one? I would have assumed that we would have had one "logical" ESP8266 board encompasing ESP-1, ESP-12, NodeMCU devkit, Hazzah and others.

tve commented 9 years ago

In the Makefile we need several targets in order to distinguish the various amounts of flash and the completely different linking process for the larger flash sizes with OTA update capability. I think it also makes sense to have two boards, one for esp-01 and one for esp-12 because the available pins are very different and the pinout is also different. Finally the flash save area address is different between the non-OTA and the OTA versions because it needs to fit into some free space. If you manage to combine them, great :-)

nkolban commented 9 years ago

I don't have any great ideas for the Makefile/build system ... maybe we can all put our heads to it as a community. If it weren't for the build system, would you be in favor of a single ESP8266 logical board with flash memory variants? ... Eg. ESP8266 512K, ESP8266 1MB, ESP8266 4MB ... etc?

tve commented 9 years ago

Honestly, I don't care too much. The esp-01 is dead for me anyways... But at this point I'm not volunteering to refactor...

tve commented 8 years ago

esp8266 is now added to web pages :-)