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of all platforms supported by eLua in a common interface. For more details about the platform interface and the overall structure of
eLua in general, check this link.
The platform interface is defined in the inc/platform.h header file from the eLua source distribution. It is a collection of various
- components (UART, SPI, timers ...), each of them is detailed in the next subsections.
+ components (UART, SPI, timers ...), each of them is detailed in the next subsections. Each such component has an id which is a number that
+ identifies that component in eLua. Generally, numbers are assigned to components in their "natural" order; for example, PORTA will have the id
+ 0, PORTB will have 1 and so on. Similarly, the second SPI interface (SPI1) of the MCU will probably have an id equal to 1. However, this is not a strict
+ rule. The implementation of the platform interface might choose to expose only some of the peripherals (components) of the MCU, thus this rule might be
+ broken. For example, if a board has 3 UARTs, but for some reason the second UART (UART1) is dedicated and can't be touched by eLua, then UART0 will have the id 0 and UART2 will
+ have the id 1, so UART1 won't ever be accesible to the code. Such cases are documented in the ##specific usage notes section.