Embedded Working Group Meeting 2023-08-29

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Announcements
svdtools to wg/tools team?
- generally in favour, @adamgreig to make issue to vote on moving
  - also talk about deprecating/removing python version
  - check copyright status of included example svd file
aarch64-cpu re-export tock-registers? https://github.com/rust-embedded/aarch64-cpu/issues/19
- and if so, major/minor/patch bump?
- yes to re-export, minor version bump
embedded_io::WriteAllError propagation
- discussed the problem in some detail
- perhaps embedded_io::write() could be forbidden from returning Ok(0),
  instead using an error to signal "can't write any more"
  * but, this is inconsistent with std::io::write, and with read
book: tooling page still needs updating
bors: ops documentation still needs updating

Announcements
- embedded-hal 1.0.0-rc.1 released
- svd2rust 0.30.0 released
- Rust 1.72 out Thursday
embedded-hal
- README updates?
Bors ongoing
Cortex-m-rt hardfault trampoline PR merged
svd2rust per-peripheral steal PR merged
riscv
- standard peripherals https://github.com/rust-embedded/riscv/issues/124
  - discussed raw-ptr vs repr©-struct approaches to mmio
book
- tooling page outdated https://github.com/rust-embedded/book/issues/355
  - add to openocd/gdb with probe-rs, rtt, defmt
    - but keep openocd for other targets, other use cases etc
  - perhaps explain rust-analyser for embedded
  - emphasize using a debug probe but point to cargo-dfu too