Add an example under examples/storage/generic_partition_bdl that
partitions a raw block device at run time using only the Block Device
Layer (BDL) interface.
The example obtains a whole-disk BDL (SPI flash data partition by
default, or an SD/eMMC card via menuconfig), writes an MBR partition
table onto it with the esp_ext_part_tables managed component (fetched
via idf_component.yml), then creates a generic-partition BDL for each
MBR entry with esp_blockdev_generic_partition_get() and mounts FATFS on
the FAT slice and LittleFS on the LittleFS slice.
- Improved description of space required to store data types into NVS partition
- Example showing nvs statistics extended with a code demonstrating the fragmentation effect
The Linux LWIP port was using --wrap linker flags to intercept read,
write, close, fcntl and select, routing socket FDs (>= LWIP_SOCKET_OFFSET)
to lwip_*() functions. This conflicted with the dlsym(RTLD_NEXT)
cooperative syscall interposition used by the new FreeRTOS Linux
simulator.
Replace the --wrap approach with esp_vfs_register_fd_range(), matching
how LWIP already integrates with VFS on bare-metal ESP32 targets.
The cooperative read()/write() wrappers in vfs_coop_syscalls.c check
VFS first, so LWIP FDs are dispatched to lwip_read() etc. before the
cooperative fallback path is reached.
Add a new CMake function esp_partition_flash_binary() that provides a
unified API for registering partition data binaries to be flashed. It
replaces the direct esptool_py_flash_target calls scattered across
components (spiffs, fatfs, nvs_flash) with a single function that:
- Resolves partition offset from the partition table automatically
- Determines encryption requirements (auto-detect or ALWAYS_PLAINTEXT)
- Creates per-partition flash targets (e.g. idf.py <partition>-flash)
- Optionally includes the binary in `idf.py flash` via FLASH_IN_PROJECT
On the linux target, the function registers binaries for pre-loading
into the emulated flash. A build-time manifest (linux_flash_data.txt)
is generated via file(GENERATE), and partition_linux.c reads it at
runtime to copy each binary into the memory-mapped flash buffer at
the correct offset.
The partition_ops example is updated to use the new function and
includes a custom_partition with pre-built data to demonstrate the
full workflow, including on the linux target.
- Added new option NVS_READWRITE_PURGE for nvs_open. All update and erase operations of
the handle are wiping out the content erased items on top of just marking them erased.
- Added new API call nvs_purge_all allowing to wipe out the existing erased items
of the handle.
