Added a step-by-step guide to starting a new embassy project

Based off an example, noting what to copy, what to change and why

Briefly summarizing how to require embassy crates via github

All steps tested and proven working at the time of writing
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* xref:getting_started.adoc[Getting started]
** xref:basic_application.adoc[Basic application]
** xref:project_structure.adoc[Project Structure]
** xref:new_project.adoc[Starting a new Embassy project]
* xref:layer_by_layer.adoc[Bare metal to async]
* xref:runtime.adoc[Executor]
* xref:delaying_a_task.adoc[Delaying a Task]

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= Starting a new Embassy project
Once youve successfully xref:getting_started.adoc[run some example projects], the next step is to make a standalone Embassy project. The easiest way to do this is to adapt an example for a similar chip to the one youre targeting.
As an example, lets create a new embassy project from scratch for a STM32G474. The same instructions are applicable for any supported chip with some minor changes.
Run:
[source,bash]
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mkdir embassy-stm32g474
cd embassy-stm32g474
cargo init
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to create an empty rust project:
[source]
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embassy-stm32g474
├── Cargo.toml
└── src
└── main.rs
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Looking in link:https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy/tree/main/examples[the Embassy examples], we can see theres a `stm32g4` folder. Find `src/blinky.rs` and copy its contents into our `src/main.rs`.
== .cargo/config.toml
Currently, wed need to provide cargo with a target triple every time we run `cargo build` or `cargo run`. Lets spare ourselves that work by copying `.cargo/config.toml` from `examples/stm32g4` into our project.
[source]
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embassy-stm32g474
├── .cargo
│   └── config.toml
├── Cargo.toml
└── src
└── main.rs
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In addition to a target triple, `.cargo/config.toml` contains a `runner` key which allows us to conveniently run our project on hardware with `cargo run` via probe-rs. In order for this to work, we need to provide the correct chip ID. We can do this by checking `probe-rs chip list`:
[source,bash]
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$ probe-rs chip list | grep -i stm32g474re
STM32G474RETx
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and copying `STM32G474RETx` into `.cargo/config.toml` as so:
[source,toml]
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[target.'cfg(all(target_arch = "arm", target_os = "none"))']
# replace STM32G071C8Rx with your chip as listed in `probe-rs chip list`
runner = "probe-rs run --chip STM32G474RETx"
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== Cargo.toml
Now that cargo knows what target to compile for (and probe-rs knows what chip to run it on), were ready to add some dependencies.
Looking in `examples/stm32g4/Cargo.toml`, we can see that the examples require a number of embassy crates. For blinky, well only need three of them: `embassy-stm32`, `embassy-executor` and `embassy-time`.
At the time of writing, the latest version of embassy isnt available on crates.io, so we need to install it straight from the git repository. The recommended way of doing so is as follows:
* Copy the required `embassy-*` lines from the example `Cargo.toml`
* Make any necessary changes to `features`, e.g. requiring the `stm32g474re` feature of `embassy-stm32`
* Remove the `path = ""` keys in the `embassy-*` entries
* Create a `[patch.crates-io]` section, with entries for each embassy crate we need. These should all contain identical values: a link to the git repository, and a reference to the commit were checking out. Assuming you want the latest commit, you can find it by running `git ls-remote https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy.git HEAD`
NOTE: When using this method, its necessary that the `version` keys in `[dependencies]` match up with the versions defined in each crates `Cargo.toml` in the specificed `rev` under `[patch.crates.io]`. This means that when updating, you have to a pick a new revision, change everything in `[patch.crates.io]` to match it, and then correct any versions under `[dependencies]` which have changed. Hopefully this will no longer be necessary once embassy is released on crates.io!
At the time of writing, this method produces the following results:
[source,toml]
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[dependencies]
embassy-stm32 = {version = "0.1.0", features = ["defmt", "time-driver-any", "stm32g474re", "memory-x", "unstable-pac", "exti"]}
embassy-executor = { version = "0.3.3", features = ["nightly", "arch-cortex-m", "executor-thread", "defmt", "integrated-timers"] }
embassy-time = { version = "0.2", features = ["defmt", "defmt-timestamp-uptime", "tick-hz-32_768"] }
[patch.crates-io]
embassy-time = { git = "https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy", rev = "7703f47c1ecac029f603033b7977d9a2becef48c" }
embassy-executor = { git = "https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy", rev = "7703f47c1ecac029f603033b7977d9a2becef48c" }
embassy-stm32 = { git = "https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy", rev = "7703f47c1ecac029f603033b7977d9a2becef48c" }
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There are a few other dependencies we need to build the project, but fortunately theyre much simpler to install. Copy their lines from the example `Cargo.toml` to the the `[dependencies]` section in the new `Cargo.toml`:
[source,toml]
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defmt = "0.3.5"
defmt-rtt = "0.4.0"
cortex-m = {version = "0.7.7", features = ["critical-section-single-core"]}
cortex-m-rt = "0.7.3"
panic-probe = "0.3.1"
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These are the bare minimum dependencies required to run `blinky.rs`, but its worth taking a look at the other dependencies specified in the example `Cargo.toml`, and noting what features are required for use with embassy for example `futures = { version = "0.3.17", default-features = false, features = ["async-await"] }`.
Finally, copy the `[profile.release]` section from the example `Cargo.toml` into ours.
[source,toml]
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[profile.release]
debug = 2
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== rust-toolchain.toml
Before we can build our project, we need to add an additional file to tell cargo to use the nightly toolchain. Copy the `rust-toolchain.toml` from the embassy repo to ours, and trim the list of targets down to only the target triple relevent for our project — in this case, `thumbv7em-none-eabi`:
[source]
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embassy-stm32g474
├── .cargo
│   └── config.toml
├── Cargo.toml
├── rust-toolchain.toml
└── src
└── main.rs
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[source,toml]
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# Before upgrading check that everything is available on all tier1 targets here:
# https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup-components-history
[toolchain]
channel = "nightly-2023-11-01"
components = [ "rust-src", "rustfmt", "llvm-tools", "miri" ]
targets = ["thumbv7em-none-eabi"]
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== build.rs
In order to produce a working binary for our target, cargo requires a custom build script. Copy `build.rs` from the example to our project:
[source]
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embassy-stm32g474
├── build.rs
├── .cargo
│ └── config.toml
├── Cargo.toml
├── rust-toolchain.toml
└── src
└── main.rs
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== Building and running
At this point, were finally ready to build and run our project! Connect your board via a debug probe and run:
[source,bash]
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cargo run --release
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should result in a blinking LED (if theres one attached to the pin in `src/main.rs` change it if not!) and the following output:
[source]
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Compiling embassy-stm32g474 v0.1.0 (/home/you/embassy-stm32g474)
Finished release [optimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.22s
Running `probe-rs run --chip STM32G474RETx target/thumbv7em-none-eabi/release/embassy-stm32g474`
Erasing sectors ✔ [00:00:00] [#########################################################] 18.00 KiB/18.00 KiB @ 54.09 KiB/s (eta 0s )
Programming pages ✔ [00:00:00] [#########################################################] 17.00 KiB/17.00 KiB @ 35.91 KiB/s (eta 0s ) Finished in 0.817s
0.000000 TRACE BDCR configured: 00008200
└─ embassy_stm32::rcc::bd::{impl#3}::init::{closure#4} @ /home/you/.cargo/git/checkouts/embassy-9312dcb0ed774b29/7703f47/embassy-stm32/src/fmt.rs:117
0.000000 DEBUG rcc: Clocks { sys: Hertz(16000000), pclk1: Hertz(16000000), pclk1_tim: Hertz(16000000), pclk2: Hertz(16000000), pclk2_tim: Hertz(16000000), hclk1: Hertz(16000000), hclk2: Hertz(16000000), pll1_p: None, adc: None, adc34: None, rtc: Some(Hertz(32000)) }
└─ embassy_stm32::rcc::set_freqs @ /home/you/.cargo/git/checkouts/embassy-9312dcb0ed774b29/7703f47/embassy-stm32/src/fmt.rs:130
0.000000 INFO Hello World!
└─ embassy_stm32g474::____embassy_main_task::{async_fn#0} @ src/main.rs:14
0.000091 INFO high
└─ embassy_stm32g474::____embassy_main_task::{async_fn#0} @ src/main.rs:19
0.300201 INFO low
└─ embassy_stm32g474::____embassy_main_task::{async_fn#0} @ src/main.rs:23
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