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<h1><big><font color="#3c34ec"><i>NuttX RTOS</i></font></big></h1>
- <p>Last Updated: September 5, 2010</p>
+ <p>Last Updated: September 7, 2010</p>
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@@ -772,58 +772,72 @@
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-<p><b>nuttx-5.9 Release Notes</b>:
+<p><b>nuttx-5.10 Release Notes</b>:
<p>
- This 56<sup>th</sup> release of NuttX was made on August 25, 2010 and is available for download from the
+ This 57<sup>th</sup> release of NuttX, Version 5.10, was made on September 7, 2010 and is available for download from the
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189573">SourceForge</a> website.
The change log associated with the release is available <a href="#currentrelease">here</a>.
Unreleased changes after this release are available in CVS.
These unreleased changes are listed <a href="#pendingchanges">here</a>.
</p>
- This release is difficult to categorize;
- NuttX-5.9 was really released because there were too many changes accumulating in CVS --
- a few important, some large, unverified implementations, and a couple of important bugfixes.
+<p>
+ This release includes a combination of some new features as well as several bugfixes.
+ New features include:
<ul>
<li>
- By far biggest change in this release is the complete implementation of on-demand paging support.
- This feature will allow you to execute large programs on a mass storage device (such as SPI FLASH) in a small RAM.
- All of the core on-demand paging logic was completed
- (see <a href="http://www.nuttx.org/NuttXDemandPaging.html">NuttXDemandPaging.html</a>)
- and support was implemented for the ARM-9 family.
- A test configuration is in place for the NXP LPC3131.
- It has been verified that this new logic does not interfere with normal fixed-page ARM9 operation, but otherwise this new on-demand paging feature is untested.
- </li>
- <li>
- Add support for the CodeSourcery toolchain to the Olimex-lpc2378 port and for the Neuros OSD port.
+ <b>TI/Luminary Stellaris LM3S9B96</b>.
+ Header file changes contributed by Tiago Maluta.
</li>
<li>
- The Neuros OSD port has been updated to work with the production v1.0 OSD
- (previously there was NuttX support only for the development board).
+ <b>TI/Luminary Stellaris LM3S8962</b>.
+ Header file changes and support for the Stellaris LM3S8962 Ethernet+CAN Evaluation Board contributed by Larry Arnold.
</li>
<li>
- And some miscellaneous feature enhancements as detailed in the <a href="#currentrelease">ChangeLog</a>.
- </li>
- </ul>
-</p>
-<p>
- This includes several important bugfixes:
- <ul>
- <li>
- NXP LPC17xx - Fixed a critical bug in the GPIO configuratino logic:
- When attempting to set no pull-up or pull-down (floating), it would, instead, select pull-down.
+ <b>On-Demand Paging Support</b>.
+ The basic logic for the On-Demand Paging feature is complete, implemented for the NXP LPC3131, and partially tested.
+ See <a href="http://www.nuttx.org/NuttXDemandPaging.html">On-Demand Paging Documentation</a>.
+ Some additional test infrastructure will be needed in order to complete the verification.
+ See the EA3131 <a href="http://nuttx.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nuttx/nuttx/configs/ea3131/README.txt?view=log">README</a> file for details.
</li>
<li>
- TI/Luminary LM3Sxxxx - Fixed (1) a logic error in an address table lookup,
- (2) GPIO port encoding the limited support to only 8 GPIO ports.
- </li>
+ <b>Two Pass Build Support</b>.
+ The make system now supports a two pass build where a relocatable, partially linked object is created on the first pass and that object is linked with the NuttX libraris to produce the final executable on the second pass.
+ This two pass build is currently only used to support the On-Demand paging feature:
+ The first pass link forces critical logic into the locked text region;
+ the second pass builds the NuttX executable more-or-less as normal.
<li>
- Corrected the lease time in the DHCPC implementation:
- It was not in host byte order.
+ <b><code>CONFIG_APP_DIR</code></b>.
+ Generalized the way in which applications are built and linked with NuttX.
+ The new configuration <code>CONFIG_APP_DIR</code> replaces <code>CONFIG_EXAMPLE</code>.
+ <code>CONFIG_EXAMPLE</code> used to identify the sub-directory within the NuttX <code>examples/</code> directory that held the example application to be built.
+ That made it awkward to configure to build an application that resided outside of the NuttX <code>examples/</code> directory.
+ <code>CONFIG_APP_DIR</code> is more general;
+ it can be used to refer to any directory containing the application to be built.
+ <ul>
+ <p><small>
+ For people who have their own configurations and/or Makefiles, you will need to make a couple of changes:
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ Replace all occurrences of <code>CONFIG_EXAMPLE=foobar</code> with <code>CONFIG_APP_DIR=examples/foobar</code> in all of the configuration files.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Replace any occurrences of <code>examples/$(CONFIG_EXAMPLE)</code> with <code>$(CONFIG_APP_DIR)</code>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Replace any occurrences of <code>lib$(CONFIG_EXAMPLE)$(LIBEXT)</code> with <code>libapp$(LIBEXT)</code> in your Makefiles.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Check any other occurrences of <code>CONFIG_EXAMPLE</code>.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </small></p>
+ </ul>
</li>
<li>
- And several other less important bugs as documented in the <a href="#currentrelease">ChangeLog</a>:
- Warnings, cornercase compilation problems, etc.
+ <b>Other</b>.
+ Several bugfixes are included as well as code changes to eliminate some warnings.
+ See the ChangeLog for details.
</li>
</ul>
</p>
@@ -1157,6 +1171,20 @@
<td><br></td>
<td>
<p>
+ <b>Luminary/TI LM3S9B96</b>.
+ Header file support was contributed by Tiago Maluta for this part.
+ However, no complete board support configuration is available as of this writing.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td><br></td>
+ <td><hr></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td><br></td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
<b>STMicro STM32F103x</b>.
This port uses the <a href=" http://www.st.com/">STMicro</a> STM3210E-EVAL development board that
features the STM32F103ZET6 MCU.
@@ -1244,15 +1272,15 @@
<b>STATUS:</b>
Some initial files for the LPC17xx family were released in NuttX 5.6, but the first
functional release for the NXP LPC1768/Nucleus2G occured with NuttX 5.7 with some
- additional enhancements through NuttX-5.9.
+ additional enhancements through NuttX-5.9.
That initial, 5.6, basic release included timer interrupts and a serial console and was
verified using the NuttX OS test (<code>examples/ostest</code>).
- Configurations available include include a verified NuttShell (NSH) configuration
+ Configurations available include include a verified NuttShell (NSH) configuration
(see the <a href="http://www.nuttx.org/NuttShell.html">NSH User Guide</a>).
The NSH configuration support the Nucleus2G's microSD slot and additional configurations
are available to exercise the the USB serial and USB mass storage devices.
- However, due to some technical reasons, neither the SPI nor the USB device drivers are fully verified.
- (Although it has been reported to me that the SPI microSD is functional on other platforms).
+ However, due to some technical reasons, neither the SPI nor the USB device drivers are fully verified.
+ (Although it has been reported to me that the SPI microSD is functional on other platforms).
</p>
<p>
<b>Development Environments:</b>
@@ -1933,14 +1961,14 @@ nuttx-5.10 2010-xx-xx Gregory Nutt &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;
For people who have their own configurations and/or Makefiles,
you will need to make a couple of changes:
- - Replace all occurrences of CONFIG_EXAMPLE=foobar with
+ - Replace all occurrences of CONFIG_EXAMPLE=foobar with
CONFIG_APP_DIR=examples/foobar in all of the configuration
files.
- Replace any occurrences of examples/$(CONFIG_EXAMPLE) with
$(CONFIG_APP_DIR)
- Replace any occurrences of lib$(CONFIG_EXAMPLE)$(LIBEXT)
with libapp$(LIBEXT) in your Makefiles.
- - Check any other occurrences of CONFIG_EXAMPLE.pascal-2.1 2010-xx-xx Gregory Nutt &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;
+ - Check any other occurrences of CONFIG_EXAMPLE.
* arch/arm/src/lpc313x/lpc313x_spi.c - Fix compilation error when
when CONFIG_DEBUG is enabled.
@@ -1952,6 +1980,12 @@ nuttx-5.10 2010-xx-xx Gregory Nutt &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;
should not be conditioned on CONFIG_ARCH_LEDs being defined!
* arch/arm/src/lpc313x/ - APB0 and APB1 cannot lie in different
sections; they are too close together.
+ * arch/arm/src/lpc313x/lpc13x_boot.c - Resetting all of the clocking
+ had a side effect of wiping out the first 6 words of memory where the
+ interrupt vectors are located (and also not resetting the fractional
+ dividers). This is not usually noticeable because the IRQ vectors
+ are after this point, but really causes problems if you want to handle
+ data and prefectch aborts which are within this zeroed region.
pascal-2.1 2010-xx-xx Gregory Nutt &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;