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SdFat used to point to unnamed commit in the ESP8266SdFat repo.
Master in that repo has now been moved to that commit, so make this
core use the master branch for sanity's sake.

Fixes #418

Fixes #373 

Fixes #411

Allow setting the size of the receive buffer by the application using a
call to Serial1/2.setFIFOSize(xxx) before the begin() call.

Defaults to 32 bytes, like the HW Serial ports, but can be set to
any desired value when instantiated.

When the Serial software FIFOs overeflowed, the IRQ handler would not
read any more data from the hardware FIFOs.  This would cause the
IRQ handler to be continually called as soon as it exited since the
HW FIFOS were not empty.

Now always read every available HW FIFO entry and throw out any that
don't fit in the SW FIFO.

Also fix a too long by half stop bit timing in the PIOSerial receiver.

Fix issues with [WiFiNINA](https://github.com/arduino-libraries/WiFiNINA) and [WiFiNINA_Generic](https://github.com/khoih-prog/WiFiNINA_Generic) libraries

Fixes #373
Fixes #375 
Fixes #376 

Fixes #368.  Thanks @bperrybap!

Defines USBD_MAX_POWER_MA as a static 250mA, which is correct for all the boards supported in platform-raspberrypi (aka, RaspberryPi Pico and Nano RP2040 Connect)

Adds support to the core for PIO-based, software-created UARTs, up to 8 (the number of PIO state machines) possible.

By using a custom program on the PIO state machines, it allows for very high bit rates and does not require CPU or interrupts.

Bit widths from 5- to 8-bits, 1 or 2 stop bits, and even/odd/none parity are supported.

PR #379 was an ugly hack which works only if you poll the Serial port more
frequently than ~8 byte times.

This PR replaces the polling with an IRQ based lockless writer/reader queue
so that even if you only read every 32 byte times, the Serial1/2 port should
not lose data.  It also should use less CPU and allow for somewhat higher
throughput.

Leave the SPI port initted after a transaction, and when a new one comes in
check if it is the same settings we're already running.  If so, do nothing.
If not, deinit and reinit.  In general the settings will be identical, so
this will speed things up massively.

Fixes #392

* Remove redundant/wrong second board.mcu in boards.txt

Fixes #380

Boards.txt had the setting board.mcu twice.  The first one was correct,
while the second one wasn't and shouldn't have been there.  Remove it.

* Include fix from @rei-vilo in #381

Because the hardware FIFO is quite small and doesn't report the actual number
of bytes available, implement a software FIFO that will pull all available
bytes out of the HW FIFO on any Serial call.  It's not as efficient or as
bulletproof as an IRQ based method, but it is simpler to implement and can
help with issues like #378

Adding definitions for internal reset and mode pins for ESP8285.

Fixes #348

Add the RTC header path in the SDK to the Arduino build path.  Also add
pico_utils to the libpico.a for the datetime_to_str call.

Note that the pico_sdk has a bug in the datetime.h header so you need to
manually bracket the include file as "C":

extern "C" {
    #include "pico/util/datetime.h"
}