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-.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
-
-.. Copyright (C) 2018.
-.. COMMENT: RTEMS Foundation, The RTEMS Documentation Project
-
-
-.. COMMENT:TBD - Convert the following to Rest and insert into this file
-.. COMMENT:TBD - https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Coding/Doxygen_for_BSPs
-
-
-Doxygen Recommendations for BSPs
-================================
-
-RTEMS contains well over a hundred `Board Support Packages (BSPs)
-<wiki:TBR/Website/Board_Support_Packages>`_. , across over 20 different
-`CPU Architectures <wiki:TBR/UserManual/SupportedCPUs>`_. . What this
-means is that there is a lot of hardware dependent code that gets
-written, and that adding Doxygen to properly document it all can be a
-very complicated task.
-
-The goal of this document is to attempt to simplify this process a bit,
-and to get you started on adding Doxygen to the bsps/ directory in a way
-that is logical and has structure. Before we move on to detailing the
-process of actually adding Doxygen to BSPs, you will be greatly served by
-having at least a basic understanding of the purpose of a Board Support
-Package (it always helps to know a bit about what you're documenting),
-as well as of the existing structure of the bsps/ directory.
-
-Feel free to skip around and skim parts of this.
-
-BSP Basics
-----------
-
-Embedded development is hard. Different CPUs have different instructions
-for doing the same thing, and different boards will have all sorts of
-different hardware that require unique drivers and interfaces. RTEMS
-handles this by having discrete packages, BSPs, to encapsulate
-code to accommodate for unique hardware. BSPs seek to implement the
-Hardware-Software interface. This, in a nutshell, is one of the `core
-purposes <wiki:Mission_Statement>`_. of RTEMS: To abstract (as much as
-is possible) away from the physical hardware and provide a standards
-compliant real-time environment for the embedded developer. If you think
-about it, the operating system on your normal computer serves a very
-similar purpose.
-
-Common Features Found In BSPs
------------------------------
-
-Although the actual implementation code will differ between BSPs, all
-BSPs will share some degree of common functionality. This is because
-that no matter what exact hardware you have, you need some basic features
-implemented in order to have a real time system you can develop on. Some
-of the most common shared features across most boards include:
-
- * **console**: is technically the serial driver for the BSP rather than
- just a console driver, it deals with the board UART (i.e. serial devices)
- * **clock**: support for the clock tick - a regular time basis for the kernel
- * **timer**: support of timer devices, used for timing tests
- * **rtc** or **tod**: support for the hardware real time clock
- * **network**: the Ethernet driver
- * **shmsupp**: support of shared memory driver MPCI layer in a
- multiprocessor system
- * **gnatsupp**: BSP specific support for the GNU Ada run-time
- * **irq**: support for how the processor handles interrupts (probably
- the most common module shared by all boards)
- * **tm27**: specific routines for the tm27 timing test
- * **start** and **startup**: C and assembly used to initialize the
- board during startups/resets/reboots
-
-These are just some of the things you should be looking for when adding
-Doxygen to a BSP.
-
-Note that there is no guarantee a particular BSP will implement all of
-these features, or even some of them. These are just the most common
-ones to look for. RTEMS follows a standardized naming convention for
-the BSP sub directories, so you should be able to tell in most cases
-what has been implemented on the BSP level and what has not.
-
-Shared Features
----------------
-
-Some of the RTEMS executive is hardware independent and can be abstracted
-so that the same piece of code can be shared across multiple CPU
-architectures, or across multiple boards on the same architecture. This
-is done so that chunks of software can be reused, as well as aiding
-in reducing the development and debugging time for implementing new
-BSPs. This greatly aids the developer, but as someone seeking to document
-this code, this can make your life a little bit harder. It is hard to
-tell by looking at the directory of a BSP which features have simply been
-left out and which features are being implemented by using shared code
-from either from the architecture (../shared) or the base bsps/ shared
-directory (../../shared). You may be looking at the BSP headers and notice
-that you have an irq.h, but no irq.c implementing it, or you might even be
-missing both. You know that the processor has interrupt support somehow,
-but where is it? The easiest way to figure this out is by looking at
-the Makefile.am for a BSP. We'll detail this process more in a bit.
-
-Rationale
----------
-
-As someone adding documentation and not doing actual development
-work, you might think it is not necessary to know some of the in and
-outs of BSPs. In actuality, this information will prove to be very
-useful. Doxygen documentation works by grouping things and their
-components (i.e. functions and other definitions), and by having
-brief descriptions of what each group does. You can't know what to
-look for or know how to group it or know how to describe it without
-some basic knowledge of what a BSP is. For more information on any
-of the above or BSPs in general, check out the `BSP Development Guide
-<http://rtems.org/onlinedocs/doc-current/share/rtems/html/bsp_howto/index.html>`_.
-.
-
-The Structure of the bsps/ directory
-------------------------------------
-
-All BSPs are found within the bsps/ directory, which is itself very
-well ordered. At the first level, we find a directory for each CPU
-architecture RTEMS supports, as well as a directory for code shared by
-all implementations.
-
- .. code-block:: shell
-
- $ cd bsps
- $ ls
- arm bsp.am lm32 m68k mips no_cpu README sparc
- avr h8300 m32c Makefile.am moxie powerpc sh sparc64
- bfin i386 m32r MERGE.PROCEDURE nios2 preinstall.am shared v850
-
-
-If we cd into a specific architecture, we see that a similar structure is
-employed. bsps/arm/ contains directories for each Board Support Package
-for boards with an ARM cpu, along with a folder for files and .h's shared
-by all BSPs of that architecture.
-
- .. code-block:: shell
-
- $ cd arm
- $ ls
- acinclude.m4 edb7312 gumstix Makefile.am realview-pbx-a9 stm32f4
- configure.ac gba lm3s69xx nds rtl22xx xilinx-zynq
- csb336 gdbarmsim lpc24xx preinstall.am shared
- csb337 gp32 lpc32xx raspberrypi smdk2410
-
-Finally, if we cd into a specific BSP, we see the files and .h's that
-compose the package for that particular board. You may recognize the
-directory names as some of the [common features] we outlined above,
-like '''irq''', '''clock''', '''console''', and '''startup'''. These
-directories contain implementations of these features.
-
- .. code-block:: shell
-
- $ cd raspberrypi
- $ ls
- bsp_specs configure.ac include make misc README
- clock console irq Makefile.am preinstall.am startup
-
-Another way to get an idea of the structure of bsps/ is to navigate
-to a directory and execute the "tree -f" command. This outputs a nice
-graphic that conveys some of the hierarchical properties of a particular
-directory.
-
- .. code-block:: shell
-
- $ pwd
- ~/rtems/bsps/arm/raspberrypi
- $ tree -f
- .
- |-- ./bsp_specs
- |-- ./clock
- | `-- ./clock/clockdrv.c
- |-- ./configure.ac
- |-- ./console
- | |-- ./console/console-config.c
- | `-- ./console/usart.c
- |-- ./include
- | |-- ./include/bsp.h
- | |-- ./include/irq.h
- | |-- ./include/mmu.h
- | |-- ./include/raspberrypi.h
- | `-- ./include/usart.h
- |-- ./irq
- | `-- ./irq/irq.c
- |-- ./make
- | `-- ./make/custom
- | `-- ./make/custom/raspberrypi.cfg
- |-- ./Makefile.am
- |-- ./misc
- | `-- ./misc/timer.c
- |-- ./preinstall.am
- |-- ./README
- `-- ./startup
- |-- ./startup/bspreset.c
- |-- ./startup/bspstart.c
- |-- ./startup/bspstarthooks.c
- |-- ./startup/linkcmds
- `-- ./startup/mm_config_table.c
-
-
-In short, BSPs will use the following directories:
-
- * bsps/**shared** <- code used that is shared by all BSPs
- * bsps/**CPU**/**shared** <- code used shared by all BSPs of a particular CPU architecture
- * bsps/**CPU**/**BSP** <- code unique to this BSP
-
-As you can see, the bsps/ directory has a very logical and easy to
-understand structure to it. The documentation generated by Doxygen
-should attempt to match this structure as closely as possible. We want
-an overarching parent group to serve the same purpose as the bsps/
-directory. In it, we want groups for each CPU architecture and a group
-for the shared files. We then want groups for each BSP. Breaking our
-documentation up into discrete groups like this will greatly simplify
-the process and make the documentation much easier to go through. By
-learning about the existing structure of the bsps/ directory, we get an
-idea of how we should structure the Doxygen groups we create. More on
-this in the next section.
-
-Doxygen
--------
-
-Now that we have covered some of the preliminaries, we can move on to
-what you are actually reading this wiki page for: adding Doxygen to the
-bsps/ directory. Let's start with some Doxygen basics. Skip this if you
-are already comfortable with Doxygen.
-
-In addition to this, check out the page on `Doxygen Recommendations
-<wiki:Developer/Coding/Doxygen >`_. , which also contains a fair amount
-of information that will not be covered here.
-
-Doxygen Basics
---------------
-
-Doxygen is a documentation generator. It allows for documentation to be
-written right by the source code, greatly easing the pains of keeping
-documentation relevant and up to date. Doxygen has many commands,
-used for things like annotating functions with descriptions, parameter
-information, or return value information. You can reference other files
-or even other documentation.
-
-The core component of Doxygen (that we care about right now at least) is
-what's called a **group**, or **module**. These are used to add structure
-and associate groups of files that serve a similar purpose or implement
-the same thing.
-
-Doxygen Headers
----------------
-Doxygen is always found in a special Doxygen comment block, known as a
-**Doxygen header**. In RTEMS, this block comes in the form of a multiline
-comment with some included Doxygen commands, which are preceded by the '@'
-tag. Take a look at this Doxygen header that declares the arm_raspberrypi
-module, which houses the documentation in the BSP for the Raspberry Pi.
-
- .. code-block:: c
-
- bsps/arm/raspberrypi/include/bsp.h:
-
- /**
- * @defgroup arm_raspberrypi Raspberry Pi Support
- *
- * @ingroup bsp_arm
- *
- * @brief Raspberry Pi support package
- *
- */
-
-You see a few commands here that we'll cover in the following
-sections. Briefly, the @defgroup command declares a new group, the
-@ingroup command nests this group as a submodule of some other group (in
-this case bsp_arm), and the @brief command provides a brief description
-of what this group is.
-
-The @defgroup Command
----------------------
-
-The @defgroup command is used to declare new groups or modules. Think
-"define group". The syntax of this command is as follows:
-
- .. code-block:: c
-
- @defgroup <group name> <group description>
-
-
-The group name is the name used by Doxygen elsewhere to reference this
-group. The group description is what is displayed when the end user
-navigates to this module in the resulting documentation. The group
-description is a couple words formatted as how it would be in a table
-of contents. This part is what actually shows up in the documentation,
-when the user navigates to this group's module, this description will
-be the modules name.
-
-Groups should only be declared (@defgroup) in .h files. This is
-because Doxygen is used primarily to document interfaces, which are
-only found in .h files. Placing @defgroups in .h files is the only real
-restriction. Which .h file you place the group declaration in surprisingly
-doesn't matter. There is no information in the resulting documentation
-that indicates where the group was declared. You will see that we do
-have some rules for where you should place these declarations, but we
-also use this fact that it doesn't matter to our advantage, in order to
-standardize things.
-
-The @defgroup command is used only to define ''structure''. No actual
-documentation is generated as a result of its use. We must @ingroup things
-to the group we declare in order to create documentation. Even though it
-does not generate visible documentation, the @defgroup command is still
-very important. We use it in a way that seeks to emulate the structure
-of the bsps/ directory itself. We do this by creating a hierarchy of
-groups for each CPU architecture and each BSP.
-
-The @ingroup Command
---------------------
-
-The @ingroup command is used to add 'things' to already declared
-groups or modules. These 'things' can either be other groups, or files
-themselves. The syntax of the @ingroup command is as follows:
-
- .. code-block:: shell
-
- @ingroup <group name>
-
-
-The group name is the actual name, not description, of the group you
-want to add yourself to. Remember that group name was the second argument
-passed to the @defgroup command.
-
-Using the @ingroup command is how we add ''meaning'' to the ''structure''
-created by using @defgroup. @ingroup associates the file it is found in
-and all other Doxygen found within (function annotations, prototypes, etc)
-with the group we declared with the @defgroup command. We add related
-files and headers to the same groups to create a logical and cohesive
-body of documentation. If the end user wanted to read documentation
-about how the raspberry pi handles interrupts, all they would have to
-do would be to navigate to the raspberry pi's interrupt support module
-(which we created with a @defgroup command), and read the documentation
-contained within (which we added with @ingroup commands).
-
-@ingroup is found within all Doxygen headers, along with an @brief
-statement. There are two types of Doxygen headers, which we will go over
-after we see a description of the @brief command.
-
-The @brief Command
-------------------
-
-The @brief command is used to give either a) a brief description
-in the form of an entry as you would see it in a table of contents
-(i.e. Capitalized, only a couple of words) or b) a brief topic sentence
-giving a basic idea of what the group does. The reason you have two uses
-for the brief command is that it is used differently in the two types of
-Doxygen headers, as we will see shortly. The syntax of the brief command
-is self evident, but included for the sake of completion:
-
- .. code-block:: shell
-
- @brief <Table of Contents entry '''or''' Topic Sentence>
-
-
-The Two Types of Doxygen Headers
---------------------------------
-
-There are two types of Doxygen Headers. The first type is found at the
-beginning of a file, and contains an @file command. This type of header
-is used when @ingroup-ing the file into another doxygen group. The form
-of the @brief command in this case is a topic sentence, often very close
-to the file name or one of it's major functions. An example of this type
-of header, found in bsps/arm/raspberrypi/include/bsp.h is as follows:
-
- .. code-block:: c
-
- Header type 1: used to add files to groups, always found at the beginning of a file
- /**
- * @file
- *
- * @ingroup raspberrypi
- *
- * @brief Global BSP definitions.
- */
-
- /*
- * Copyright (c) YYYY NAME
- *
- * <LICENSE TERMS>
- */
-
-
-Notice the form and placement of this type of header. It is always found
-at the beginning of a file, and is in its own multiline comment block,
-separated by one line white space from the copyright. If you look at the
-header itself, you see a @file, @ingroup, and @brief command. Consider
-the @file and the @ingroup together, what this says is that we are
-adding this file to the raspberrypi group. There is actually a single
-argument to the @file command, but Doxygen can infer it, so we leave
-it out. Any other Doxygen, function annotations, function prototypes,
-#defines, and other code included in the file will now be visible and
-documented when the end user navigates to the group you added it to in
-the resulting documentation.
-
-Now let's consider the second type of header. This type is syntactically
-very similar, but is used not to add files to groups, but to add groups
-to other groups. We use this type of header to define new groups
-and nest them within old groups. This is how we create hierarchy
-and structure within Doxygen. The following is found, again, in
-bsps/arm/raspberrypi/include/bsp.h:
-
- .. code-block:: c
-
- Header type 2: Used to nest groups, found anywhere within a file
- /**
- * @defgroup arm_raspberrypi Raspberry Pi Support
- *
- * @ingroup bsp_arm
- *
- * @brief Raspberry Pi Support Package
- */
-
-It looks very similar to the first type of header, but notice that the
-@file command is replaced with the @defgroup command. You can think
-about it in the same way though. Here we are creating a new group, the
-arm_raspberry pi group, and nesting it within the bsp_arm group. The
-@brief in this case should be in the form of how you would see it in a
-table of contents. Words should be capitalized and there should be no
-period. This type of header can be found anywhere in a file, but it is
-typically found either in the middle before the file's main function,
-or at the tail end of a file. Recall that as we are using the @defgroup
-command and creating a new group in this header, the actual .h we place
-this in does not matter.
-
-The second type of header is the **structure** header, it's how we
-create new groups and implement hierarchy. The first type of header
-was the **meaning** header, it's how we added information to the groups
-we created.
-
-For more examples of Doxygen structure and syntax, refer to BSPs found
-within the arm architecture, the lpc32xx and raspberrypi BSPs are
-particularly well documented. A good way to quickly learn more is by
-tweaking some Doxygen in a file, then regenerating the html, and seeing
-what has changed.
-
-Generating Documentation
-------------------------
-
-Doxygen is a documentation generator, and as such, we must
-generate the actual html documentation to see the results
-of our work. This is a very good way to check your work, and
-see if the resulting structure and organization was what you had
-intended. The best way to do this is to simply run the `do_doxygen script
-<https://github.com/joelsherrill/gci_tasks/blob/master/2015/doxygen_c_header_tasks/validate/do_doxygen>`_. To use the script:
-
-Make sure Doxygen is installed. Also, the environment needs to have the
-root directory of RTEMS set in the variable `r` so that `$r` prints the
-path to RTEMS, and the script takes as argument a relative directory
-from there to generate the doxygen, for example to generate the doxygen
-for all of bsps/ you would do:
-
- .. code-block:: shell
-
- export r=~/rtems
- ./do_doxygen bsps
-
-Doxygen in bsps/
-----------------
-
-Now that we've covered the basics of Doxygen, the basics of BSPs and the
-structure of the bsps/ directory, actually adding new Doxygen to bsps/
-will be much easier than it was before. We will cover a set of rules and
-conventions that you should follow when adding Doxygen to this directory,
-and include some tips and tricks.
-
-Group Naming Conventions
-------------------------
-
-This is an easy one. These are in place in order for you to quickly
-identify some of the structure of the Doxygen groups and nested groups,
-without actually generating and looking at the documentation. The basic
-idea is this: when defining a new group (@defgroup), the form of the name
-should be the super group, or the name of the group you are nesting this
-group within, followed by an underscore, followed by the intended name
-of this new group. In command form:
-
- .. code-block:: c
-
- <----- This is your group name -------> <--usual description -->
- @defgroup <super-group name>_<name of this group> <group description>
-
-
-Some examples of this:
-
-* **bsp_arm**: This is the group for the arm architecture. It is a
-member of the all inclusive bsp-kit group (more on this in structure
-conventions), so we prefix it with the "**bsp**" super group name. This
-is the group for the arm architecture, so the rest is just "'''arm'''"
-
-* **arm_raspberrypi**: This is the group for the Raspberry Pi BSP. It
-is is an arm board, and as such, is nested within the bsp_arm group. We
-prefix the group name with an "**arm**" (notice we drop the bsp prefix
-of the arm group - we only care about the immediate super group),
-and the rest is a simple "'''raspberrypi'''", indicating this is the
-raspberrypi group, which is nested within the bsp_arm group.
-
-* **raspberrypi_interrupt** This is the group for code handling
-interrupts on the Raspberry Pi platform. Because this code and the group
-that envelops it is Raspberry Pi dependent, we prefix our name with a
-"**raspberrypi**", indicating this group is nested within the raspberrypi
-group.= Structure Conventions =
-
-This covers where, when, and why you should place the second type of
-Doxygen header. Remember that our goal is to have the structure of
-the documentation to match the organization of the bsps/ directory as
-closely as possible. We accomplish this by creating groups for each
-cpu architecture, each BSP, and each shared directory. These groups are
-nested as appropriate in order to achieve a hierarchy similar to that
-of bsps/. The arm_raspberrypi group would be nested within the bsp_arm
-group, for example.
-
-Where to place @defgroup
-------------------------
-
-Remember how I said it really doesn't matter where you place the
-@defgroup? Well, it does and it doesn't. It would be chaotic to place
-these anywhere, and almost impossible to tell when you have a @defgroup
-and when you don't, so we do have some rules in place to guide where
-you should place these.
-
-@defgroups for CPU Architectures and Shared Directories
--------------------------------------------------------
-
-The standardized place for these is within a special doxygen.h file
-placed within the particular architectures shared directory. This
-doxygen.h file exists solely for this purpose, to provide a standard
-place to house the group definitions for CPU architectures and the
-shared directory for that architecture. This is done because there is
-no single file that all architectures share, so it would be impossible
-to declare a standardized location for architecture declarations without
-the creation of a new file. This also allows others to quickly determine
-if the group for a particular architecture has already been defined or
-not. Lets look at the doxygen.h for the arm architecture as an example,
-found at arm/shared/doxygen.h:
-
- .. code-block:: c
-
- /**
- * @defgroup bsp_arm ARM
- *
- * @ingroup bsp_kit
- *
- * @brief ARM Board Support Packages
- */
-
- /**
- * @defgroup arm_shared ARM Shared Modules
- *
- * @ingroup bsp_arm
- *
- * @brief ARM Shared Modules
- */
-
-
-The doxygen.h contains only 2 Doxygen headers, both of which are of
-the second type. One header is used to create the groups for the arm
-architecture **bsp_arm**, nesting it as part of the bsp_kit group,
-and the other creates an **arm_shared** group to house the code that is
-shared across all BSPs of this architecture. Because these are the second
-type of Doxygen header, where we place them does not matter. This allows
-us to place them in a standard doxygen.h file, and the end user is non
-the wiser. Note that this .h file should never be included by a .c file,
-and that the only group declarations that should be placed here are the
-declarations for the CPU Architecture group and the shared group.
-
-There is also a doxygen.h file that exists at the root bsps/shared
-directory, to @defgroup the the parent **bsp_kit** group (the only
-group to not be nested within any other groups) and to @defgroup
-the **bsp_shared** group, to serve as the holder for the bsps/shared
-directory.
-
-If the architecture in which the BSP you are tasked with does not have
-one of these files already, you will need to copy the format of the file
-here, replacing the **arm** with whatever the CPU Architecture you are
-working with is. Name this file doxygen.h, and place it in the shared
-directory for that architecture.
-
-The only groups you should ever add to this CPU group would be groups
-for specific BSPs and a group for the shared directory.
-
-@defgroups for BSPs
--------------------
-
-These are much easier than placing @defgroups for CPU Architectures. The
-overwhelming majority of the time, the @defgroup for a BSP is found within
-the bsp.h file found at '''''bsp'''''/include/bsp.h. It is usually placed
-midway through or towards the end of the file. In the event that your
-board lacks a bsp.h file, include this group declaration within the most
-standard or commonly included header for that BSP.
-
-The group for a BSP should **always** be nested within the group for
-the CPU architecture it uses. This means that the Doxygen header for
-defining a BSP group should always look something like this:
-
- .. code-block:: c
-
- /**
- * @defgroup *architecture*_*BSP* *name*
- *
- * @ingroup bsp_*architecture*
- *
- * @brief *BSP* Support Package
- */
-
-
-@defgroups for Everything Else
-------------------------------
-
-Never be afraid to add more structure! Once the basic CPU and BSP group
-hierarchy is established, what we're left with is all the sub directories
-and implementation code. Whether working within a shared directory for
-a CPU architecture, or within a BSP directory, you should always be
-looking for associations you can make to group files together by. Your
-goal should be to avoid @ingroup-ing files directly to the cpu_shared
-group and the cpu_bsp group as much as possible, you want to find more
-groups you can nest within these groups, and then @ingroup files to
-those groups. Here are some things to look for:
-
-Look Common Features Implemented
---------------------------------
-
-Remember that list of common features outlined in the BSP Basics
-section? Find the .h's that are responsible for providing the interface
-for these features, and @defgroup a group to @ingroup the files
-responsible for implementing this feature.
-
-RTEMS has a naming convention for its BSP sub directories, so it should
-be a really quick and easy process to determine what features are there
-and what is missing.
-
-Examples of this are found within the **arm_raspberrypi** group, which
-contains nested subgroups like **raspberry_interrupt** to group files
-responsible for handling interrupts, **raspberrypi_usart** to group files
-responsible for implementing USART support, and many other subgroups.
-
-Check out the Makefile
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-
-When working within a BSP, take a look at the Makefile.am. Often times,
-you will find that the original developer of the code has outlined the
-groups nicely for you already, with comments and titles before including
-source files to be built. Also, this is often the only way to tell which
-features a BSP simply does not implement, and which features a BSP borrows
-from either the architecture's shared group, or the bsps/ shared group.
-
-Start with a .h, and look for files that include it
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-
-You should end up with a @defgroup for ''most'' .h files. Some .h files
-are related and will not have independent groups, but most provide
-interfaces for different features and should have their own group
-defined. Declare a group for the header, then use cscope to find the files
-that include this header, and try to determine where the implementation
-code for prototypes are found. These are the files you should @ingroup.
-
-Files with similar names
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-
-If you see that a few files have similar names, like they are all prefixed
-with the same characters, then these files should most likely be part
-of the same group.
-
-Remember, your goal is to @defgroup as much as you can. The only files
-you should be @ingroup-ing directly to the BSP group or the shared group
-are files that don't cleanly fit into any other group.
-
-Where to place @ingroup
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-
-The @ingroups you add should make sense.
-
-* If you are working within an architecture's shared directory, @ingroup should be adding things either to the *architecture*_shared group, or some sub group of it.
-
-* If you are working within a BSP directory, @ingroup should be adding things to either the *architecture_*bsp* group, or some sub group of it.
-
-@ingroup in the first type of Doxygen Header
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-
-Remember that in the first type of Doxygen header, we are adding files
-to groups. This type of header should always be at the top of the
-file. You should be adding files that are associated in some way to
-the same groups. That is to say, if three different .h files provide an
-interface allowing interrupt support, they should be a part of the same
-group. Some good ways to associate files were outlined above.
-
-@ingroup in the second type of Doxygen Header
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-
-Here we are using the @ingroup command to add groups to other groups,
-creating a hierarchy. The goal for bsps/ is to have one single group that
-holds all other groups. This root group is the **bsp_kit** group. All
-groups should be added either directly to this group (if you are creating
-an architecture group) or added to one of its sub groups.
-
-When nesting groups, try to match the structure of bsps/ as closely as
-possible. For example, if a group is defined to associate all files that
-provide for a real time clock for the raspberrypi, nest it within the
-arm_raspberrypi group.
-
-@ingroup for shared code
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-
-This is tricky. You may end up in a situation where your BSP uses code
-found in either the architecture shared directory, or the bsps/shared
-directory. Even though this code is logically associated with the BSP,
-as stated above: all files in the shared directory should be added to
-either the *architecture*_shared group, or some subgroup of it ''not''
-the BSP group. You could make a note under the @brief line in the header
-(which shows up in the resulting documentation) that a particular BSP
-uses this code.
-
-When working with shared code, you should be careful and add notes to
-@brief to indicate that it is a shared code or interface. Prefixing things
-with "Generic" is a good idea here. You will still be able to form groups
-and associate things when working on the shared level, but sometimes you
-will find that you have the interface (.h) to @defgroup, but not many
-files to add to the group as it may be hardware dependent. This is okay.