ardupilot Precland cleanups

Removes code duplication in SITL Make SITL behave like other backends Small (mostly NFC) cleanups on the Precland that make the future sensor lag estimation PR smaller.

Feb 15 '24 10:02 amilcarlucas

Binary Name      Text [B]      Data [B]     BSS (B)       Total Flash Change [B] (%)      Flash Free After PR (B)
---------------  ------------  -----------  ------------  ----------------------------  -------------------------
ardurover        4 (+0.0002%)  0 (0.0000%)  4 (+0.0015%)  4 (+0.0002%)                                     337332
blimp            0 (0.0000%)   0 (0.0000%)  0 (0.0000%)   0 (0.0000%)                                      623072
arducopter       0 (0.0000%)   0 (0.0000%)  0 (0.0000%)   0 (0.0000%)                                      192988
arduplane        0 (0.0000%)   0 (0.0000%)  0 (0.0000%)   0 (0.0000%)                                      201296
ardusub          0 (0.0000%)   0 (0.0000%)  0 (0.0000%)   0 (0.0000%)                                      400608
antennatracker   0 (0.0000%)   0 (0.0000%)  0 (0.0000%)   0 (0.0000%)                                      645948
arducopter-heli  8 (+0.0005%)  0 (0.0000%)  0 (0.0000%)   8 (+0.0004%)                                     186812

Feb 15 '24 12:02 amilcarlucas

This has been tested in CI

Feb 19 '24 08:02 amilcarlucas

needs approval from @rishabsingh3003

Feb 21 '24 07:02 tridge

I have three other PRs that build on top of this one.

Feb 22 '24 10:02 amilcarlucas

@rishabsingh3003 ping

Feb 29 '24 15:02 amilcarlucas

@amilcarlucas I'd like to delay this till after https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/26380 is merged as I'd like that in 4.5, and this would make backporting to 4.5.x much harder

Mar 04 '24 23:03 tridge

@tridge it rebased cleanly

Mar 06 '24 00:03 amilcarlucas