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Getting started wiht Raspberry Pi Pico-series - default PICO_BOARD build inconsistency pp. 35 and 39 #417

Open drankinatty opened 3 days ago

drankinatty commented 3 days ago

The Getting started wiht Raspberry Pi Pico-series contains inconsistencies regarding the default PICO_BOARD= build provided by the C/C++ SDK.

On Page 35 (Red IMPORTANT Box)

The SDK builds binaries for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 by default

On Page 39 (Red IMPORTANT Box)

The SDK builds binaries for the Raspberry Pi Pico by default

Both cannot be correct and it is confusing concerning whether a define is needed if building for pico or pico2?

Did the default build change from pico to pico2?

lurch commented 3 days ago

Default board (if neither PICO_BOARD nor PICO_PLATFORM are specified) is still pico - see https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk/blob/master/cmake/pico_pre_load_platform.cmake for the gory details :wink:

The boxout on page 35 of the getting-started guide must have a typo.

drankinatty commented 2 days ago

Okay, good to know. Do you want me to pull a pull-request, or can somebody just delete the errant '2' without that formality?

lurch commented 2 days ago

You can't submit a pull-request, as the source-code for those PDFs isn't publicly available. But I'll ensure that this typo gets fixed internally, and updated PDFs get published within the next month or two. Thanks for spotting it!