unplugged-system/system/chre/chpp/RELEASE_NOTES.md

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# CHPP Release Notes
A summary of notable changes is provided in the form of release notes. Dates are provided as yyyy-mm-dd. Note that this is not meant to be a detailed changelog; for a detailed change list, please refer to git commits.
### 2020-03-04 (4c668b3)
Initial release of CHPP.
- CHPP transport and app layers
- Loopback testing service
### 2020-07-28 (7cebe57)
This release enables service integration with WWAN / WiFi / GNSS devices based on the CHRE PAL API.
- New functionality
- Reset and reset-ack implementation to allow either peer to initialize the other (e.g., upon boot)
- Discovery service to provide a list of services
- Discovery client to match clients with discovered services
- Standard WWAN service based on the CHRE PAL API
- Standard WiFi service based on the CHRE PAL API
- Standard GNSS service based on the CHRE PAL API
- Standard WWAN client based on the CHRE PAL API
- Updates and bug fixes to existing layers, including
- Better logging to assist verification and debugging
- Error replies are sent over the wire for transport layer errors
- Over-the-wire preamble has been corrected (byte shifting error)
- API and integration changes
- App layer header now includes an error code
- App layer message type now occupies only the least significant nibble (LSN). The most significant nibble (MSN) is reserved
- chppPlatformLinkSend() now returns an error code instead of a boolean
- Added initialization, deinitialization, and reset functionality for the link layer (see link.h)
- Condition variables functionality needs to be supported alongside other platform functionality (see chpp/platform/)
- Name changes for the logging APIs
### 2020-08-07 (0b41306)
This release contains bug fixes as well as the loopback client.
- New functionality
- Loopback client to run and verify a loopback test using a provided data buffer
- Cleanup and bug fixes
- Corrected sequence number handling
- Updated log messages
- More accurate casting into enums
### 2020-08-27 (8ab5c23)
This release contains additional clients, a virtual link layer for testing (e.g., using loopback), and several important bug fixes.
- New functionality
- Basic implementation of the standard WiFi client based on the CHRE PAL API
- Basic implementation of the standard GNSS client based on the CHRE PAL API
- Virtual link layer that connects CHPP with itself on Linux to enable testing, including reset, discovery, and loopback
- Cleanup and bug fixes
- Client implementation cleanup
- Client-side handling of close responses
- Reset / reset-ack handshaking mechanism fixed
- Loopback client fixed
- Enhanced log messages
- Service command #s are now sequential
- API and integration changes
- Platform-specific time functionality (platform_time.h)
### 2020-10-01 (95829e3)
This release updates client functionality using the parser, adds a transport-layer loopback mechanism for testing and debugging, and includes several important bug fixes.
- New functionality
- Parser for CHPP -> CHRE Data Structure Decoding
- Completed client functionality using parser-generated functions
- Transport-layer-loopback client and service. The Transport-layer loopback ignores app layer functionality and state, as well as checksums and sequence numbers
- Cleanup and bug fixes
- Improved compiler compatibility for MSVC, as well as when enabling additional compiler warning flags
- Fixed handling of fragmented datagrams
- Corrected MTU calculation
- Corrected loopback assert
- Slimmer OOM logging
- Parser code and header files were relocated
### 2021-02-08 (f1d249c)
In addition to enhancements and bug fixes, this release enables error and reset handling and several other features.
- New functionality
- ARQ implementation. Note that it is necessary to either implement chppNotifierTimedWait() or a single-threaded workaround as described in QUICKSTART.md to detect timeouts
- Checksum support via IEEE CRC-32. A sample implementation is provided, but it is expected that most devices have optimized implementations available or may prefer implementations with alternate optimization criteria
- Timesync functionality and timestamp offset correction for WiFi and WWAN measurements
- Reset handling throughout the transport layer, clients, and services, opening and recovering state as needed
- WiFi RTT client and service support
- Multiple loopback client support
- Transport-layer-loopback client validates response and returns the result
- Support for pseudo-opening services at the client, so they appear always available
- Correct responses generated at clients when async requests fail at services
- Cleanup and bug fixes
- Client and service fixes including length and bound checks, missing implementations
- Parser fixes including empty pointers set to null, compatibility with processors lacking unaligned access support
- Stability fixes throughout CHPP and tests
- Improved compiler compatibility for C99+ and pre-C99 systems (even though CHPP does not officially support pre-C99)
- Updated documentation and logging
### 2021-03-25 (f908420)
This release updates the built-in timesync and checksum functionality and addresses bugs and compatibility issues.
- Updated functionality
- Timesync is redesigned to become non-blocking
- Outgoing checksums are enabled by default
- An updated sample CRC32 implementation is provided (It is still expected that devices that have existing, optimized implementations use their own)
- Client deinitialization and reset support
- Cleanup and bug fixes
- Logging updates, including reset reasoning, avoiding %s for compatibility
- Stability fixes and cleanup throughout CHPP and tests, including the reopening flow, permanent_failure state, and a memory leak
- Testing improvements
### 2021-05-24 (c9bfae3)
This release enables better identification of end-of-packets as well as addressing bugs and compatibility issues.
- Updated functionality
- Rx timeout detection
- Rx MTU enforcement
- Support for Rx end-of-packet notifications from the link layer (optional, platform dependent)
- Cleanup and bug fixes
- Reset functionality cleanup, including updating the functionality of CHPP_TRANSPORT_MAX_RETX and CHPP_TRANSPORT_MAX_RESET to reflect their intent accurately
- Pseudo-open clients remain pseudo-open after open failures
- Fixed reopen failures after transport reset
- Added missing WiFi ranging service response
- Memory allocation and initialization improvements
- Mutex handling improvements
- Compatibility fixes
- Testing improvements
### 2021-06-17 (this)
This release adds request timeout support at the client and addresses several bugs and compatibility issues throughout CHPP, including fixing open-state tracking at the service. Note that with the corrected open-state tracking, it is essential for services to correctly implement the close() PAL API so that it disables any ongoing requests and returns to a clean state.
- Updated functionality
- Client request timeout support
- Cleanup and bug fixes
- Service open-state tracking
- Memory handling fixes
- Added GNSS passive location listener service response
- Enforced error code requirements on service responses
- Fixed ARQ handling of duplicate packets
- Client request/response state refactoring
- Client registration cleanup
- Reset handling fixes
- Testing improvements
### 2023-01
Update CHPP to make it possible to use different link layers on the same platform.
**Before:**
The link layer API is defined by:
- A few global functions:
- `chppPlatformLinkInit`
- `chppPlatformLinkDeinit`
- `chppPlatformLinkSend`
- `chppPlatformLinkDoWork`
- `chppPlatformLinkReset`
- A few defines:
- `CHPP_PLATFORM_LINK_TX_MTU_BYTES`
- `CHPP_PLATFORM_LINK_RX_MTU_BYTES`
- `CHPP_PLATFORM_TRANSPORT_TIMEOUT_MS`
**After:**
In order to be able to use different link layers, the link layer API is now defined by
- A `ChppLinkApi` API struct composed of pointers to the entry points:
- `init`
- `deinit`
- `send`
- `doWork`
- `reset`
- `getConfig` [added]
- `getTxBuffer` [added]
- A free form state,
- A `ChppLinkConfiguration` struct replacing the former defines.
#### Migration
You first need to create a `struct` holding the state of the link layer.
This state `struct` is free form but would usually contain:
- The TX buffer - it was owned by the transport layer in the previous version.
The TX buffer size must be added to the configuration `ChppLinkConfiguration` struct.
You can compute the size from your former `CHPP_PLATFORM_LINK_TX_MTU_BYTES`.
The formula to use is `min(CHPP_PLATFORM_LINK_TX_MTU_BYTES, 1024) + CHPP_TRANSPORT_ENCODING_OVERHEAD_BYTES`.
For example if your `CHPP_PLATFORM_LINK_TX_MTU_BYTES` was 2048, the TX buffer size should be `1024 + CHPP_TRANSPORT_ENCODING_OVERHEAD_BYTES`.
Note that 1024 (or whatever the value of the min is) is the effective payload.
The TX buffer will be slightly larger to accommodate the transport layer encoding overhead.
- A pointer to the transport layer state which is required for the transport layer callbacks
You need to create an instance of `ChppLinkApi` with pointers to the link functions.
The API of the existing function have changed. They now take a `void *` pointer to the free form link state where they used to take a `struct ChppPlatformLinkParameters *`. You should cast that `void* linkContext` pointer to the type of your free form state.
The `init` function now takes a second `struct ChppTransportState *transportContext` parameter. That function should store it in the state as it will be needed later to callback into the transport layer. The `init` function might store the `ChppLinkConfiguration` configuration in the state (if the configuration varies across link layer instances).
The `send` function does not take a pointer to the TX buffer (`uint8_t *buf`) any more. That's because this buffer is now owned by the link layer and part of the link state.
The added `getConfig` function returns the configuration `ChppLinkConfiguration` struct. The configuration might be shared across link instances or specific to a given instance.
The added `getTxBuffer` function returns a pointer to the TX buffer that is part in the state.
Then you need to create the `ChppLinkConfiguration` struct. It contains the size of TX buffer, the size of the RX buffer. Those are equivalent to the former defines. Note that `CHPP_PLATFORM_TRANSPORT_TIMEOUT_MS` was not used and has been deleted.
Other changes:
- You need to pass the link state and the link `ChppLinkApi` struct when initializing the transport layer with `chppTransportInit`.
- When calling the `chppLinkSendDoneCb` and `chppWorkThreadSignalFromLink` from the link layer the first parameter should now be a pointer to the transport layer. You would typically retrieve that pointer from the link state where you should have stored it in the `init` function.
### 2023-03
The `chppRegisterService` signature changes from
```
uint8_t chppRegisterService(struct ChppAppState *appContext,
void *serviceContext,
const struct ChppService *newService);
```
to
```
void chppRegisterService(struct ChppAppState *appContext, void *serviceContext,
struct ChppServiceState *serviceState,
const struct ChppService *newService);
```
The handle which used to be returned is now populated in `serviceState`.
`service->appContext` is also initialized to the passed `appContext`.
This change makes the signature and behavior consistent with `chreRegisterClient`.