MicroPython "network" module interface requires it to contains classes
to instantiate. But as we have a static network interace, make WLAN()
"constructor" just return module itself, and just make all methods
module-global functions.
Pasting more or less sizable text into ESP8266 REPL leads to random chars
missing in the received input. Apparent cause is that using RTOS messages
to pass individual chars one by one is to slow and leads to UART FIFO
overflow. So, instead of passing chars one by one, use RTOS msg to signal
that input data is available in FIFO, and then let task handler to read
data directly from FIFO.
With this change, lost chars problem is gone, but the pasted text is
truncated after some position. At least 500 chars can be pasted reliably
(at 115200 baud), but 1K never pastes completely.
1. Updated linker script, now user app appears to contain exception vector
table and oesn't work (faults) without it.
2. Commened out support for GPIO pulldown, which was removed in this SDK
version without clear explanation, but apparently because it was released
without proper validation, and now turns out it doesn't work as expected,
or there's a different function there.
As user_init() is not a true main functions, the stack pointer captured within
is not pointing at the base of the stack. This caused gc_collect being called
with sp being higher than stack_end, causing integer overflow and crashing as
gc tried to scan almost the entire address space.
Radomir Dopieralski
Bill Owens
Paul Sokolovsky
Josef Gajdusek
Damien George