Overview

Data & Controls

For D&C, we are going to be using a central docker container for all projects just to try and make development a bit easier. This docker container is specialized for embedded development to replace the awful and bloated embedded tools and IDE’s we would otherwise have to work with (*cough cough STM32 Microchip TI cough cough*).

Installation

1. Install docker. For Mac and Windows, you must install docker desktop instead.

2. If using Windows follow two more steps because Docker for Windows runs on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux):

   1. Install WSL by running wsl --install

   2. Setup wsl by launching ubuntu from the start menu

Usage

MacOS

1. Make sure Docker Desktop is started

2. Pull down the Docker container you are using by running docker pull <CONTAINER_NAME> where CONTAINER_NAME can be nwdepatie/ner-gcc-arm for microcontroller development

3. Start the container by running docker run --rm -it --privileged -v "$PWD:/home/app" <CONTAINER_NAME>:latest bash using the same container you just pulled.

   1. Make sure you are running it in whatever directory you want to operate on

4. Any flashing hardware should be mounted to container automatically

Linux

1. Make sure Docker is started (I just run docker and it works but results may vary)

2. Pull down the Docker container you are using by running docker pull <CONTAINER_NAME> where CONTAINER_NAME can be nwdepatie/ner-gcc-arm for microcontroller development

3. Start the container by running sudo docker run --rm -it --privileged -v "$PWD:/home/app" <CONTAINER_NAME>:latest bash using the same container you just pulled.

   1. Make sure you are running it in whatever directory you want to operate on

4. Any flashing hardware should be mounted onto container automatically

Windows

1. Make sure Docker Desktop is started and wsl ubuntu is installed (see above setup)

2. To mount any flashing hardware (this may be condensed into a script in the future):

   1. Open a Windows terminal with admin privileges and run winget install usbipd

   2. Open a WSL terminal (wsl) and run the following commands to enable mounting Windows USB devices in the Docker container

      1. Leave the terminal open

   3. (If interacting with hardware) Mount the Raspberry Pi probe by finding the device in another Windows terminal with usbipd list and mount the device in a Windows terminal window (with admin privileges the first time you do this) with usbipd bind --busid=<BUSID>

      1. You’re looking for the CMSIS-DAP v2 Interface device

         

   4. Run usbipd attach --wsl=ubuntu --busid <BUSID>.

   5. Clone and open a terminal in a embedded project.

   6. Pull down the Docker container you are using by running docker compose pull.

   7. Start the container by running docker compose run --rm ner-gcc-arm.

      1. Make sure you are running it in the root directory of the project (Ex. Cerberus, Shepherd, Iroh, Proteus, etc.)

All future mounts after the first time on the device should be:

1. Open wsl with wsl

2. usbipd list to get the pi debug probe BUS ID

3. usbipd attach --wsl=ubuntu --busid <BUSID>

4. docker compose run --rm ner-gcc-arm