Update UART driver API (#14839)

* Add uart_puts() and uart_gets()

* Add some docs

* Rework API

* Formatting

* Update docs/uart_driver.md

Co-authored-by: Sergey Vlasov <sigprof@gmail.com>

* Simplify a uart_write() loop

* Update platforms/avr/drivers/uart.c

Co-authored-by: Joel Challis <git@zvecr.com>

Co-authored-by: Sergey Vlasov <sigprof@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Joel Challis <git@zvecr.com>

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/docs/uart_driver.md b/docs/uart_driver.md
index 4d1716975..340b64818 100644
--- a/docs/uart_driver.md
+++ b/docs/uart_driver.md
@@ -60,30 +60,56 @@ Initialize the UART driver. This function must be called only once, before any o
 
 ---
 
-### `void uart_putchar(uint8_t c)`
+### `void uart_write(uint8_t data)`
 
 Transmit a single byte.
 
 #### Arguments
 
- - `uint8_t c`  
-   The byte (character) to send, from 0 to 255.
+ - `uint8_t data`  
+   The byte to write.
 
 ---
 
-### `uint8_t uart_getchar(void)`
+### `uint8_t uart_read(void)`
 
 Receive a single byte.
 
 #### Return Value
 
-The byte read from the receive buffer.
+The byte read from the receive buffer. This function will block if the buffer is empty (ie. no data to read).
+
+---
+
+### `void uart_transmit(const uint8_t *data, uint16_t length)`
+
+Transmit multiple bytes.
+
+#### Arguments
+
+ - `const uint8_t *data`  
+   A pointer to the data to write from.
+ - `uint16_t length`  
+   The number of bytes to write. Take care not to overrun the length of `data`.
+
+---
+
+### `void uart_receive(char *data, uint16_t length)`
+
+Receive multiple bytes.
+
+#### Arguments
+
+ - `uint8_t *data`  
+   A pointer to the buffer to read into.
+ - `uint16_t length`  
+   The number of bytes to read. Take care not to overrun the length of `data`.
 
 ---
 
 ### `bool uart_available(void)`
 
-Return whether the receive buffer contains data. Call this function to determine if `uart_getchar()` will return meaningful data.
+Return whether the receive buffer contains data. Call this function to determine if `uart_read()` will return data immediately.
 
 #### Return Value