Thank you Nordic team for your precious help. Is by any chance the project sdk_15_gzp_dynamic_pairing_ses_device.zip also available to download? Is there any particular reason why both these _ses projects are not by default provided inside the latest sdk (15.3)? Inside the keil gzll device project I can see these preprocessor symbols:
BOARD_PCA10056 BSP_SIMPLE CONFIG_GPIO_AS_PINRESET FLOAT_ABI_HARD GAZELL_ALTERNATIVE_RESOURCES GAZELL_PRESENT NRF52840_XXAA SWI_DISABLE0 USE_SD_HW_RESOURCES _HEAP_SIZE=8192 _STACK_SIZE=8192
Being the macro SOFTDEVICE_PRESENT not defined, as well as the NO_VTOR_CONFIG one, may you please confirm that the precompiled library gzll_nrf52840_sd_resources_gcc.a doesn't make use of the SoftDevice (s140 for pca10056 board)? If so, the sd prefix in the name of the library seems to be a little bit confusing. In this case (SoftDevice not used) can I safely use the following simple linker section placement macro:
linker_section_placement_macros="FLASH_PH_START=0x0;FLASH_PH_SIZE=0x100000;RAM_PH_START=0x20000000;RAM_PH_SIZE=0x40000;FLASH_START=0x0;FLASH_SIZE=0x100000;RAM_START=0x20000000;RAM_SIZE=0x40000"
linker_section_placements_segments="FLASH RX 0x0 0x100000;RAM RWX 0x20000000 0x40000" ?
It is very important to understand how to properly set memory for the gzll device project. I had it already up and running in the ses environment, nevertheless the program was not able to correctly start an encrypted dialogue with the host. Apparently many routines in gzp.c file failed when calling memcpy: the routine was not able to copy memory in the right way, even when I used a custom memcpy implementation. May I ask if the information reported in the linker section placement macro is always in synch with the content of the .emProject xml file? The .emProject xml file should never be edited by hand?
In your project gzll_ack_payload_device_pca10056 (that does use the gzll_nrf52840_sd_resources_gcc.a library) I also found inside the .emProject file:
c_preprocessor_definitions="BOARD_PCA10056;CONFIG_GPIO_AS_PINRESET;FLOAT_ABI_HARD;GAZELL_ALTERNATIVE_RESOURCES;GAZELL_PRESENT;INITIALIZE_USER_SECTIONS;NO_VTOR_CONFIG;NRF52840_XXAA;SWI_DISABLE0;USE_SD_HW_RESOURCES;" and
linker_section_placement_macros="FLASH_PH_START=0x0;FLASH_PH_SIZE=0x100000;RAM_PH_START=0x20000000;RAM_PH_SIZE=0x40000;FLASH_START=0x0;FLASH_SIZE=0x100000;RAM_START=0x20000000;RAM_SIZE=0x40000"
I just got started using a clean gzll_ack_payload_device_pca10056 as a template project. In order to build the dynamic pairing device program, I had to copy the nrf_gzp_config.h file, add a gzp include directory, add nrf_gzp.c, nrf_gzp_device.c, nrf_ecb.c and nrf_nvmc.c. The project does build successfully, I'm trying to debug it, though. As it keeps going hardfault, using all other default configurations, when in Release mode. When in Debug mode the program seems to run but the gazell device transmission is like transparent to the host device (even if they share the same secret key and other parameters in nrf_gzp_config.h). Evidently the device it is not transmitting at all because of some internal error. I have to say that I'm sure that must be some issue about the device project configuration, in fact I proved the ses gzll dynamic pairing host project working putting it to the test using the device flashed with the binary as it comes from the Keil environment.
From the linker file for the IAR environment is it possible to see:
keep { section gzp_dev_data };
place at address mem:0x1000 { readonly section gzp_dev_data };
keep { section gzp_dev_data_sd };
place at address mem:0x15000 { readonly section gzp_dev_data_sd };
Perhaps it is this key information that is missing right now. Do you give this information through the flash_placement.xml file in the segger embedded environment? I have got the same flash_placement.xml file for the ses host project and the device one. In particular the <ProgramSection alignment="4" keep="Yes" load="No" name=".GZP_PARAMS" start = "0x00015000" size="0x1000" /> program section tag is present, though.
I also tried using the ble_app_gzll_pca10056_s140 as a starting point template, in order to have the gzll device dynamic pairing example working. This time, using default configurations and after adding a couple of existing drivers, I got the project apparently partially working and the device, when compiled in Release mode, was able to receive Host Id. Neverthless, the encrypted transmission doesn't work again and Debug mode keeps going hardfault. Forcing the debug in Release mode, even if optimizations are enabled, I see that after the gzp_add_validation_id function call the validation id seems that is not copied at all (it is always 0xff 0xff 0xff).
Thanks in advance for taking the time to reply
