- New drivers:
- SD SPI
- spi_peripheral
- touch_placeholder
- display_placeholder
- Devicetree compiler:
- Implement phandle-arrays
- Implement device addresses
- Add placeholder drivers to all devices with a SPI display
- SPI driver: add `cs-pins` and set them to high on driver start
- FileSystem: add `file_system_set_owner()` and `file_system_get_owner()`
- File locking is now checking if the related `FileSystem` is part of a shared SPI bus
- Add `device_get_child_count()`
- SDMMC driver: Remove default of `slot` value
- Fix for Crowpanel Basic 3.5" display (add delay to booting)
- Fix for LilyGO T-HMI SD card mounting (delayed mounting by disabling it initially in the dts)
Font size set to 18 for 800x480 displays
Fix web server dashboard not rendering when sdcard isn't present
Added new driver modules
- BM8563 RTC
- RX8130CE RTC
- MPU6886 IMU
- QMI8658 IMU
- M5PM1 Power Management Chip
Applied the above modules to applicable devicetrees.
Added new device: M5Stack StickS3
Added new M5Stack Tab5 St7123 variant.
ButtonControl changed to use interupts and xQueue, added AppClose action.
And some bonus symbols of course, the apps are hungry for symbols.
**New Features**
* Runtime font accessors and new symbol fonts for text, launcher, statusbar, and shared icons.
* Added font height base setting to device.properties
* Text fonts now have 3 sizes: small, default, large
**Improvements**
* Renamed `UiScale` to `UiDensity`
* Statusbar, toolbar and many UI components now compute heights and spacing from fonts/density.
* SSD1306 initialization sequence refined for more stable startup.
* Multiple image assets replaced by symbol-font rendering.
* Many layout improvements related to density, font scaling and icon scaling
* Updated folder name capitalization for newer style
* **Refactor**
* GPIO subsystem moved to a descriptor-based model for per-pin ownership and runtime pin management; many platform drivers now acquire/release descriptors.
* Device trees and drivers now use GPIO phandle-style pin specifications across all boards and all drivers.
* **Behavior**
* Device list now encodes per-device status (ok/disabled); boot will skip disabled devices accordingly.
* **Deprecation**
* Legacy GPIO HAL marked deprecated and replaced with descriptor-based interfaces.
* **Chores**
* Bindings and platform configs updated to the new GPIO pin-spec format.
* **DevicetreeCompiler**
* Binding properties now support default values.
* Compiler returns meaningful exit codes and reports errors more clearly.
* Stronger validation of device configurations with unified error handling.
* Added integration tests and a dedicated Devicetree test workflow.
* **Changes**
* Platform binding schemas updated: some fields made required, others gained explicit defaults.
* Many device-tree files simplified by removing unused/placeholder pin and transfer-size entries.
* **Documentation**
* Removed several outdated TODO items.
- Implement SPI devices in dts files for all devices
- Removed `tt::hal::spi` HAL and its configurations
- Fix for devicetree generator "boolean" support
- Remove unused custom locks in all `DisplayDevice` implementations
- Fixed some bugs with devices
- Updated XPT2046 driver
- Fix for `WifiEsp` deadlock
- Export a lot of new `math.h` symbols with `tt_init.cpp`
- Created `SpiDeviceLock` in `TactilityCore` as a wrapper for kernel SPI locking
- Improved `TactilityKernel` SPI driver.
- Add kernel support for SPI driver
- Add kernel support for UART driver
- Implemented ESP32 UART kernel driver
- Update existing UART-related code in Tactility to use new kernel driver
- Remove UART from tt::hal::Configuration
- Remove tt_hal_uart functionality but keep functions for now
- Update devicetrees for UART changes
- Kernel mutex and recursive mutex: improved locking API design
- Other kernel improvements
- Added device_exists_of_type() and device_find_by_name()
* **New Features**
* Added public accessors for querying module/device start and ready state.
* **Refactor**
* Internal state moved to opaque internal objects; module/device/driver initializers now explicitly initialize internal pointers.
* Lifecycle handling updated to construct/destruct internal state and use accessors.
* **Tests**
* Tests updated to use public accessors and explicit construct/destruct lifecycle calls.
* **Chores**
* Test build/include paths and small metadata updated.
* **New Features**
- Adds module symbol support and per-module symbol tables, including LVGL symbol exports moved into a dedicated table.
* **API**
- Adds symbol-resolution APIs and an accessor to enable dynamic lookup between modules.
* **Bug Fixes / Chores**
- Explicitly initializes module symbol pointers across device and platform modules to avoid uninitialized state.
* **Tests**
- Updates tests to account for symbol pointer initialization.
* **New Features**
* Added a standalone LVGL module and enabled LVGL support in the simulator for richer local UI testing.
* **Refactor**
* HAL and LVGL split into distinct modules; startup and device attach/detach flows reorganized for clearer lifecycle management.
* Public APIs tightened with clearer nullability/documentation.
* **Bug Fixes**
* More consistent LVGL start/stop and device attach/detach behavior for improved stability.
Standardised device module identifiers across all supported devices to use consistent naming conventions with lowercase alphanumeric and hyphen-separated formats.
* **New Features**
* Plugin-style modules for platforms and devices with start/stop lifecycle and a runtime-consumable device tree array.
* **Refactor**
* Consolidated initialization into a kernel/module startup flow.
* Generated devicetree artifacts moved to the build Generated directory.
* **Changes**
* Removed legacy no-op registration hooks and I2C lock/unlock wrappers.
* Driver ownership and private state moved to explicit module/owner model.
* Added ERROR_NOT_ALLOWED error code.
Devictree changes:
- Create DTS files for all remaining devices
- Update corresponding `devicetree.yaml`
- Remove `i2c` configuration from corresponding `tt::hal::Configuration`
Apps & HAL:
- Removed I2C Settings (we'll make a new one later after I rework that part of the HAL)
- Delete TactilityC GPIO and I2C functionality
- Delete Related SystemEvent types
- Refactor `tt::hal::i2c` to only use `struct Device*` wrapping
Scripting:
- Fix DevicetreeCompiler boolean parsing
- Create `build-all.py`
**New features**
- Created a devicetree DTS and YAML parser in Python
- Created new modules:
- TactilityKernel (LGPL v3.0 license)
- Platforms/PlatformEsp32 (LGPL v3.0 license)
- Platforms/PlatformPosix (LGPL v3.0 license)
- Tests/TactilityKernelTests
Most boards have a placeholder DTS file, while T-Lora Pager has a few devices attached.
**Licenses**
Clarified licenses and copyrights better.
- Add explanation about the intent behind them.
- Added explanation about licenses for past and future subprojects
- Added more details explanations with regards to the logo usage
- Copied licenses to subprojects to make it more explicit
- `TT_LOG_*` macros are replaced by `Logger` via `#include<Tactility/Logger.h>`
- Changed default timezone to Europe/Amsterdam
- Fix for logic bug in unPhone hardware
- Fix for init/deinit in DRV2605 driver
- Other fixes
- Removed optimization that broke unPhone (disabled the moving of heap-related functions to flash)
Ken Van Hoeylandt