qmk_firmware/quantum/nvm/readme.md
Nick Brassel 2b00b846dc
Non-volatile memory data repository pattern (#24356)
* First batch of eeconfig conversions.

* Offset and length for datablocks.

* `via`, `dynamic_keymap`.

* Fix filename.

* Commentary.

* wilba leds

* satisfaction75

* satisfaction75

* more keyboard whack-a-mole

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* omnikeyish

* more whack-a-mole

* `generic_features.mk` to automatically pick up nvm repositories

* thievery

* deferred variable resolve

* whitespace

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* convert api to structs/unions

* fixups

* code-side docs

* code size fix

* rollback

* nvm_xxxxx_erase

* Updated location of eeconfig magic numbers so non-EEPROM nvm drivers can use them too.

* Fixup build.

* Fixup compilation error with encoders.

* Build fixes.

* Add `via_ci` keymap to onekey to exercise VIA bindings (and thus dynamic keymap et.al.), fixup compilation errors based on preprocessor+sizeof.

* Build failure rectification.
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Non-volatile Memory - Data Repositories

This area is intentionally structured in the following way:

╰- quantum
   ╰- nvm
      ├- readme.md
      ├- rules.mk
      |
      ├- nvm_eeconfig.h
      ├- nvm_<<system>>.h
      |
      ├- eeprom
      |  ├- nvm_eeconfig.c
      |  ├- nvm_<<system>>.c
      |  ╰- ...
      |
      ├- <<another provider>>
      |  ├- nvm_eeconfig.c
      |  ├- nvm_<<system>>.c
      |  ╰- ...
      ╰- ...

At the base nvm level, for every QMK core system which requires persistence there must be a corresponding nvm_<<system>>.h header file. This provides the data repository API to the "owner" system, and allows the underlying data persistence mechanism to be abstracted away from upper code. Any conversion to/from a .raw field should occur inside the nvm_<<system>>.c layer, with the API using values, such as structs or unions exposed to the rest of QMK.

Each nvm "provider" is a corresponding child directory consisting of its name, such as eeprom, and corresponding nvm_<<system>>.c implementation files which provide the concrete implementation of the upper nvm_<<system>>.h.

New systems requiring persistence can add the corresponding nvm_<<system>>.h file, and in most circumstances must also implement equivalent nvm_<<system>>.c files for every nvm provider. If persistence is not possible for that system, a nvm_<<system>>.c file with simple stubs which ignore writes and provide sane defaults must be used instead.