DEVO 7E ROM limitation reached soon ?

Hi,

With the incredible work of all gurus here, more and more protocols will be soon or later added. The actual size of the DEVO7E's ROM is very close to its limit. Can we be afraid that probably not all new protocols won' be added for devo 7E ?

protocols are at no risk as they are modular and not in Rom. all other new features are at risk

As IMBack! says, protocols are modules and can be omitted is not needed. If and when a new protocol is finished and released the D7 shouldn't have an issue. It will start having issues is more features are added, and then you will need to kindly ask HappyHarry to build with a subset, leaving behind the features you don't use.

Or solder a beefier MCU (not for beginners, but doable) and ask PhracturedBlue to make a custom build for Devo 7e with larger ROM.

Or just compile a custom build without standard gui and telemetry, and you're on the 109kb ballpark.

My old deviation-devo7e-v4.0.1-38060a0_NoSTGUI_NoTEL_HasLAYOUT-ED_HasPERM-TIMER_1-3pos_SW build had that size.

I think I will order soon a devo 10 even if I like my devo 7E very much for his compact size....

What we might need soon is a "wizard-style" custom compiler that would allow you to select what functions you want and compile the build for people like me, having no experience with compiling and such...

This should be possible with some directives in the makefile where you can set variables as it is actually done with HGVERSION. Depending on those parameters (with a given default when missing) the "#define HAS_..." in the code (target_defs.h) should be set or not. This way you could set flags in the command line while compiling without changing the code.
It needs just a volunteer who implements this (and convince PB of its usefulness, but we could help there)...

It worked like this sometime ago, but then PB moved it all into this def file and disabled command line parameters for some reason. I forgot the reason but there was one.

PhracturedBlue wrote: If you can develop a script to choose parameters, updating this file should be easy. It has a benefit over makefile args in that re-compilation will work properly, and you don't need to wonder what parameters were used last time you compiled.

Witch is exacly what i planed to do. I started on it but I have not had the time so far to finnish it.