Using probe-rs to initialise memory.x

[romixlab]

Wouldn't it be great to automatically create a proper linker configuration based on the selected chip? It seems that this information can be easily pulled from yaml files in probe-rs/targets/. Probably someone is already thought about it, in that case just close this right away.

[rubberduck203]

I’m fairly certain there would need to be changes to cargo generate to make something like this work.

cargo-generate/cargo-generate#17

[romixlab]

Some way of getting values out of yaml files will also be required, maybe it's easier to create a cargo tool tailored specifically for that task...

[rubberduck203]

Oh! Hey! Some of the required functionality landed in cargo-generate v0.6.0!

https://github.com/cargo-generate/cargo-generate#template-defined-placeholders

[romixlab]

Great! That can be used for improvements.

As for the memory size part, probably some scripting functionality from cargo-generate will be required. I wonder what would be better, add scripting to cargo-generate or create a special tool specifically for creating embedded projects.

[rubberduck203]

I don’t know much about probe-rs.
Couldn’t we use the same user provided value for memory.x and the probe-rs config?

Of course, that assumes adding probe-rs support to the quickstart.