all: add a flag to the command line to select the serial implementation

This can be very useful for some purposes:

  * It makes it possible to disable the UART in cases where it is not
    needed or needs to be disabled to conserve power.
  * It makes it possible to disable the serial output to reduce code
    size, which may be important for some chips. Sometimes, a few kB can
    be saved this way.
  * It makes it possible to override the default, for example you might
    want to use an actual UART to debug the USB-CDC implementation.

It also lowers the dependency on having machine.Serial defined, which is
often not defined when targeting a chip. Eventually, we might want to
make it possible to write `-target=nrf52` or `-target=atmega328p` for
example to target the chip itself with no board specific assumptions.

The defaults don't change. I checked this by running `make smoketest`
before and after and comparing the results.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/compileopts/target.go b/compileopts/target.go
index 4fb62fce3..ba5f73826 100644
--- a/compileopts/target.go
+++ b/compileopts/target.go
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ type TargetSpec struct {
 	BuildTags        []string `json:"build-tags"`
 	GC               string   `json:"gc"`
 	Scheduler        string   `json:"scheduler"`
+	Serial           string   `json:"serial"` // which serial output to use (uart, usb, none)
 	Linker           string   `json:"linker"`
 	RTLib            string   `json:"rtlib"` // compiler runtime library (libgcc, compiler-rt)
 	Libc             string   `json:"libc"`