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diff --git a/nuttx/Documentation/NuttX.html b/nuttx/Documentation/NuttX.html index c604b9dad..32f118f7b 100644 --- a/nuttx/Documentation/NuttX.html +++ b/nuttx/Documentation/NuttX.html @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <tr align="center" bgcolor="#e4e4e4"> <td> <h1><big><font color="#3c34ec"><i>NuttX RTOS</i></font></big></h1> - <p>Last Updated: February 9, 2012</p> + <p>Last Updated: February 12, 2012</p> </td> </tr> </table> @@ -350,6 +350,13 @@ <td><br></td> <td> <p> + <li>Inheritable "controlling terminals" and I/O re-direction.</li> + </p> +</tr> +<tr> + <td><br></td> + <td> + <p> <li>On-demand paging.</li> </p> </tr> @@ -357,6 +364,13 @@ <tr> <td><br></td> <td> + <p>System logging.</li> + </p> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><br></td> + <td> <p> <li>May be built either as an open, flat embedded RTOS or as a separtely built, secure micro-kernel with a system call interface.</li> </p> @@ -543,7 +557,7 @@ <td><br></td> <td> <p> - <li>Networking utilities (DHCP server and client, SMTP client, TELNET client, FTP server and client, TFTP client, HTTP server and client)</li> + <li>Networking utilities (DHCP server and client, SMTP client, TELNET client, FTP server and client, TFTP client, HTTP server and client). Inheritable TELNET sessions (as "controlling terminal")</li> </p> </tr> <tr> @@ -918,90 +932,95 @@ </tr> </table> -<h2>NuttX-6.14 Release Notes</h2> +<h2>NuttX-6.15 Release Notes</h2> <p> - The 81<sup>st</sup> release of NuttX, Version 6.14, was made on January 15, 2012, and is available for download from the + The 82<sup>nd</sup> release of NuttX, Version 6.15, was made on February 12, 2012, and is available for download from the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/nuttx/files/">SourceForge</a> website. - Note that the release consists of two tarballs: <code>nuttx-6.14.tar.gz</code> and <code>apps-6.14.tar.gz</code>. + Note that the release consists of two tarballs: <code>nuttx-6.15.tar.gz</code> and <code>apps-6.15.tar.gz</code>. Both may be needed (see the top-level <code>nuttx/README.txt</code> file for build information) The change log associated with the release is available <a href="#currentrelease">here</a>. Unreleased changes after this release are available in SVN. These unreleased changes are also listed <a href="#pendingchanges">here</a>. </p> <p> - New features in this release include: + New or extended features in this release include: </p> <ul> - <li><b>Drivers</b>. - The upper-half PWM driver will now support a pulse count (as - would be needed to control a stepper motor). - </li> - <li><b>STM32</b>. - The CAN driver has been verified in loopback mode. ADC driver - support for the STM32 F4. Add support for UART4-5 and USART6 - (Contributed by Mike Smith). The PWM driver now supports a pulse - count for TIM1 and TIM8. Timer driver now supports the F4's 32-bit - timers (Contributed by Mikhail Bychek) + <li><b>Genernal Drivers</b>. + Added support for (29-bit) extended CAN IDs. + Added an infrastructure to support battery drivers. + Added a driver for MAX17040x battery "fuel gauge." + Add support for Composite USB drivers (in particular for a CDC/ACM with MSC USB composite driver). </li> - <li><b>STM32F4Discovery</b>. - Support for the STM32F4-Discovery board contributed - by Mike Smith. - </li> - <li><b>STM3240G-EVAL</b>. - Add support for user control of LEDs. - </li> - <li><b>LPC17xx</b>. - Add support for loopback mode to CAN driver. CAN TX done - perations are now interrupt driver. Now supports configurable CAN bit - rate. + <p> + Added a new RAM logging driver. + This will allow debug output into a RAM buffer associated with a character driver at <code>/dev/syslog</code>. + Added the new command <code>dmesg</code> to NSH that can be used to dump the current contents of the log. + This is useful for systems that do not have the usual serial console (for example, if you only have a Telnet console with NSH). + <li><b>Networking</b>. + Added a lower level, primitive socket interface. Added a new Telnet driver: </li> - <li><b>LPC1766-STK</b>. - Add support for on-board buttons. Add support for user - control of LEDs. + <p> + A New Telnet daemon was created. + It wraps a Telnet session within a character driver that can serve as a "controlling terminal." + The Telnet session will then be inherited by tasks created from the Telnet session and the <code>stdin</code>/<code>stdout</code> from the created task will still go through the same Telnet connection. + </p> + <li><b>STM32 Drivers</b>. + PWM driver pulse count was limited to 128; now is (essentially) unlimited. + Added support for (29-bit) extended CAN IDs. + Add support for I2C3. + The SDIO driver is (mostly) verified on the STM32 F4 platforms. </li> - <li><b>LM3S</b>. - Add support for the LM3S6432S2E on the TI RDK-S2E (Contributed - by Mike Smith) + <li><b>LPC17xx Drivers</b>. + Extended the CAN driver so that the TSEG1 and TSEG2 bit times can be set via the NuttX configuration. + Add support for (29-bit) extended CAN IDs. </li> <li><b>PIC32MX</b>. - USB device-side driver (needs further testing). A partial - Ethernet driver is also in place. + The PIC32 Ethernet driver is code complete (but still untested). + </li> + <li><b>FTPD</b>. + Added a new FTP server daemon. + This is based loosely on the <i>hwport_ftpd</i> library provided by Jaehyuk Cho. </li> <li><b>Library</b>. - Support added for fixed floating point fieldwidths in output - formatting (Contributed by Mikhail Bychek) + Add support for <code>on_exit()</code>. + Implemented <code>tcsetattr()</code> and <code>tcgetattr()</code>. + Moved the old, too-smart <code>fgets()</code> to a new application library function called <code>readline()</code>. + Dumbed down the original <code>fgets()</code>. + Add <code>strcasestr()</code>, <code>avsprintf()</code>, <code>inet_ntop()</code>, and i<code>net_pton()</code>. + Add support to enable or disable debug output. </li> - <li><b>Build</b>. - New targets apps_clean and apps_distclean to simplify working - with application diretories. + <li><b>Build System</b>. + Support for building a 32-bit simulation executable on a 64-bit Linux machine. + Correct a dependency issue in the <code>arch/*/src/board</code> directory (from Mike Smith). </li> </ul> <p> Bugfixes include: </p> <ul> - <li><b>Drivers</b>. - Fixed a buffer-full test in the upper-half CAN driver. + <li><b>System</b>. + Correct <code>PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER</code>. + </li> + <li><b>FAT</b>. + Fix an error in the FAT <code>statfs()</code> reported by David Sidrane. </li> <li><b>STM32</b>. - GPIO initialize logic (submitted by Mike Smith). Fix the - debug logic that dumps the GPIO configuration. + Fix clock frequencies for APB2 timers. + Correct an AFIO register offset. </li> - <li><b>LPC17xxx</b>. - Correct an integeter overlow in GPIO interrupt setup - (prevented pins > 15 from being used as interrupt sources). Correct - a value used in GPIO interrupt number range test. + <li><b>PIC32</b>. + Correct GPIOs used for LEDs on the Sure PIC32MX board. </li> - <li><b>FAT</b>. - Now returns the correct error value when it is unable to - recognize the file system. + <li><b>NSH</b>. + Wait for a USB connection if a USB serial class is used to interface with the host. </li> - <li><b>Build</b>. + <li><b>FTPD</b>. MAC OS build fixes (submitted by Mike Smith) </li> </ul> <p> - See the <a href="#currentrelease">ChangeLog</a> for details. + See the <a href="#currentrelease">ChangeLog</a> for additional, detailed changes. </p> <table width ="100%"> @@ -1368,7 +1387,7 @@ This port was released in NuttX 5.5. Features are the same as with the Eagle-100 LM3S6918 described above. The apps/examples/ostest configuration has been successfully verified and an - NSH configuration with telnet support is available. + NSH configuration with Telnet support is available. MMC/SD and Networking support was not been thoroughly verified: Current development efforts are focused on porting the NuttX window system (NX) to work with the Evaluation Kits OLED display. @@ -2735,125 +2754,9 @@ Other memory: <ul><pre> nuttx-6.14 2012-01-15 Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> - * tools/Makefile.export, mkexport.sh, and configure.sh: Changes submitted - by Mike Smith to support configuration and 'make export' on MAC OS. - * arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_gpio.c: Disabled interrupts while configuring - GPIO pins so that we have exclusive access to the GPIO configuration - registers. - * arch/mips/src/pic32mx/pic32mx_usbdev.c: Add a USB device-side driver - for the PIC32MX family. - * arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_gpio.c: Correct an error in some of the GPIO - initialization logic. Fix submitted by Mike Smith. - * configs/olimex-lpc1766stk/src/up_leds.c: Add new interfaces so that is - CONFIG_ARCH_LEDS are not set, the LEDs may be controlled from application - logic. - * configs/olimex-lpc1766stk/src/up_buttons.c: Add support for the buttons - on the Olimex LPC1766-STK board. - * Makefile: Added 'apps_clean' and 'apps_distclean' target to simplify - managing the state of the application directory while in the NuttX directory - * Documentation/NuttXGettingStarted.html: Added a "Getting Started" Guide - for NuttX. At present, this is just a stub and it refers to the NuttX - top-level README.txt file which is the only, real "Getting Started" Guide - that exists at the time being. - * arch/arm/src/lpc17xx/lpc17_gpioint.c: Correct an value used as the lower - end of an IRQ number range test. - * arch/arm/src/lpc17xx/lpc17_gpio.c: Fix a integer flow problem in shift. - This error would prevent pins > 15 from being used as interrupt sources. - * arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_can.c: The CAN driver has been verified in - loopback mode on the STM3240G-EVAL board. - * configs/stm3240g-eval/src/up_adc.c: Complete coding of ADC support for the - potentiometer on board the STM3240G-EVAL. - * arch/arm/src/lpc17_can.c: Several CAN driver improvements. Adds support for - testing in loopback mode. now uses all three transmit buffers for better - performance. - * confgs/olimex-lpc1766stk/nsh: Now supports the CAN loopback test as an - optional "built-in" application. - * sched/irq_attach.c: Fix an issue with disabling interrupts when they are - detached. For the PIC32, this can't be done because there is a 1-to-many - relationship between vector numbers and interrupt numbers or different. - Added a new configuration option CONFIG_ARCH_VECNOTIRQ to at least flag - the architectures that have this issue and to (at least) avoid doing - something too wrong. - * drivers/can.c: Fix a test for buffer full in the generic, "upper half", - can driver. - * arch/arm/src/lm3s: Add support for the LM3S6432S2E (Contributed by Mike Smith) - * configs/lm3s6432-s2: Add support for the TI RDK-S2E (LM3S6432S2E) board - (Contributed by Mike Smith) - * configs/stm3240g-eval/src: Add APIs support to support user access to the - LEDs - * arch/arm/src/lpc17xx/lpc17_can.c: Add logic to change the CAN bit rate based - on the NuttX configuration. - * arch/arm/src/lpc17xx/lpc17_can.c: PCLK divisor is now a configuration - option. - * arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_serial.c and stm32_lowputc.c: Support for - UART4-5 and USART6 added by Mike Smith. Also includes a more flexible - way of managing UART pin configurations. - * include/nuttx/pwm.h, drivers/pwm.c, arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_pwm.c: Add - support for pulse count in order to better support stepper motors. - * arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_dumpgpio.c: Checking wrong register to see if - GPIO is enabled. Also not adding the GPIO base address to several offsets. - * configs/stm32f4discovery: Port to the STMicro STM32F4Discovery board - (Contributed by Mike Smith). - * fs/fat/fs_fat32util.c: On a failure to recognize a FAT file system, the - mount logic should return -EINVAL, not -ENODEV. - * arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_tim.c: Support for STM32 F4 32-bit timers - (Contributed by Mikhail Bychek) - * lib/stdio/lib_vsprintf.c: Add support for fixed-size fields with floating - point numbers (Contributed by Mikhail Bychek) - -apps-6.14 2012-01-15 Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> - - * apps/examples/buttons/main.c: The test needs to call up_buttoninit() to - properly configure the button interrupt GPIOs. - * apps/examples/pwm: Add support to test the pulse count option recently - added to the PWM interface. - -pascal-1.0 2011-05-15 Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> - - * nuttx/: The Pascal add-on module now installs and builds under the - apps/interpreters directory. This means that the pascal-2.1 module is - incompatible with will all releases of NuttX prior to nuttx-6.0 where the - apps/ module was introduced. - -buildroot-1.10 2011-05-06 <gnutt@nuttx.org> - - * Add patch submitted by Dimiter Georgiev to work around problems in building - GDB 6.8 with versions of Cygwin > 1.7. - * configs/i486-defconfig-4.3.3 - Builds an i486 cross development toolchain - using gcc 4.3.3. Why wouldyou want such a thing? On Linux, of course, - such a thing is not needed because you can use the installed GCC to build - i486 ELF binaries. But that will not work under Cygwin! The Cygwin - toolchain (and probably MinGW), build DOS MZ format executables (i.e., - .exe files). That is probably not usable for most NuttX targets. - Instead, you should use this i486-elf-gcc to generate true ELF binaries - under Cygwin. - * Makefile - Alter copy arguments to avoid permissions problems when - copying NuttX header files. - * toolchain/nxflat/nxflat.mk and Makefile - Fix include paths. - * toolchain/gcc/3.3.6 - Added a patch to fixed compilation error on Ubuntu - 9.10. - * toolchain/nxflat/Makefile - Correct static library link order. - * configs/arm920t-defconfig-4.3.3 - Enable support for NXFLAT tools. - * toolchain/binutils/2.21 and toolchain/gcc/4.5.2 - Add support for GCC - 4.5.2 with binutils 2.21. - * configs/arm920t-eabi-defconfig-4.5.2 - Add a configuration to build a - GCC 4.5.2 EABI ARM toolchain for the ARM920t. -</pre></ul> - -<table width ="100%"> - <tr bgcolor="#e4e4e4"> - <td> - <a name="pendingchanges">Unreleased Changes</a> - </td> - </tr> -</table> - -<ul><pre> -nuttx-6.15 2012-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> - * arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_pwm.c: Pulse count was limited to 128; now is (essentially) unlimited. - * configs/stm3240g-eval/include/board.h: Input frequences wrong for all but + * configs/stm3240g-eval/include/board.h: Input frequencies wrong for all but one APB2 timer. * arch/mips/src/pic32mx/pic32mx-ethernet.c: The PIC32 Ethernet driver is code complete, but still untested. @@ -2875,7 +2778,7 @@ nuttx-6.15 2012-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> * include/power/battery.h and drivers/battery.c: Add the interface definitions for an upper and lower half battery driver. Add the implementation of the common upper half battery driver. - * drivers/power/max1704x.c: Add a driver for MAX17040x battery "fuel guage" + * drivers/power/max1704x.c: Add a driver for MAX17040x battery "fuel gauge" * arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_i2c.c: Add support for I2C3 * drivers/usbdev/: Lots of name changes: cdc_serial->cdcacm, usbstrg->usbmsc, usbser->pl2303 @@ -2918,7 +2821,7 @@ nuttx-6.15 2012-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> David Hewson many, many months ago. * configs/mcu123-lpc214x/composite and configs/mcu123-lpc214x/src/up_composite.c: Add a configuration to test the USB composite device. - * configs/stm3240g-eval/telnetd: Add a configuration for testing the + * configs/stm3240g-eval/Telnetd: Add a configuration for testing the Telnet daemon. * configs/stm3240g-eval/nsh2: This is another NSH configuration. It differs from the original nsh configuration because it does not have an RS-232 @@ -2930,36 +2833,91 @@ nuttx-6.15 2012-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> * lib/net/lib_inetntop.c: Add inet_ntop(). * lib/net/lib_inetpton.c: Add inet_pton(). * include/pthread.h: Correct PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER. - * fs/fat/fs_fatfs.c: Fix and error in the FAT statfs() implementation that + * fs/fat/fs_fatfs.c: Fix an error in the FAT statfs() implementation that was causing some block counts to be reported incorrectly (reported by David Sidrane). + * drivers/ramlog.c: Add a character driver that can substitute + for /dev/console and or be used for logging debug output when there + is no serial port available (such as when a Telnet console is used). + * lib/stdio/lib_syslogstream: Add a stream object that will be used to + re-direct all debug output to the RAM log if CONFIG_SYSLOG and + CONFIG_RAMLOG_SYSLOG are defined. + * lib/misc/lib_dbg.c: Add an interface enabled with CONFIG_DEBUG_ENABLE that + can be used to turn debug output on and off. -apps-6.15 2012-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> +apps-6.16 2012-02-12 Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> * apps/nshlib/nsh_serial.c and nsh_usbdev.c: If NuttX is configured to use a USB serial console, then NSH needs to wait until the USB console is connected and available. * apps/examples/composite: Add a test of the USB composite device. - * apps/examples/telnetd: Move the tiny uIP shell example from - netutils/telnetd to examples/telnetd. Enhanced the telnetd daemon so that - it supports telnetd via a TTY device driver: A new TTY device driver is - created when each new telnet connection is created. The shell thread - is started with stdin, stdout, and stderror mapped to the TTY device. - * netutils/telnetd: The old uIP telnet demo is gone. In its place is a new - telnet infrastructure. The new telnet daemon creates sessions that are + * apps/examples/Telnetd: Move the tiny uIP shell example from + netutils/Telnetd to examples/Telnetd. Enhanced the Telnetd daemon so that + it supports Telnetd via a TTY device driver: A new TTY device driver is + created when each new Telnet connection is created. The shell thread + is started with stdin, stdout, and stderr mapped to the TTY device. + * netutils/Telnetd: The old uIP Telnet demo is gone. In its place is a new + Telnet infrastructure. The new Telnet daemon creates sessions that are "wrapped" as character devices and mapped to stdin, stdout, and stderr. - Now the telnet session can be inherited by spawned tasks. - * examples/telnetd: Add a test for the new telnet daemon. - * examples/telnetd/telnetd_driver.c: Move the internal socket structure from + Now the Telnet session can be inherited by spawned tasks. + * examples/Telnetd: Add a test for the new Telnet daemon. + * examples/Telnetd/telnetd_driver.c: Move the internal socket structure from the daemon's socket array into the driver's state data so that it will be - independent from the the telnetd daemon. + independent from the the Telnetd daemon. * apps/system/readline: Moved the old nuttx/lib/stdio/lib_fgets.c here and renamed it as readline(). The old fgets was simplied and the overloaded readline functionality was removed. * apps/netutils/ftpd: Add an FTPD server (does not even compile on initial checkin). * apps/examples/ftpd: Add a test for the FTPD server (untest on initial - check-in).pascal-3.1 2012-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> + check-in). + * apps/nshlib/nsh_fscmds.c: Add support for a 'dmesg' command that will + dump the system log if CONFIG_SYSLOG is selected. + +pascal-1.0 2011-05-15 Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> + + * nuttx/: The Pascal add-on module now installs and builds under the + apps/interpreters directory. This means that the pascal-2.1 module is + incompatible with will all releases of NuttX prior to nuttx-6.0 where the + apps/ module was introduced. + +buildroot-1.10 2011-05-06 <gnutt@nuttx.org> + + * Add patch submitted by Dimiter Georgiev to work around problems in building + GDB 6.8 with versions of Cygwin > 1.7. + * configs/i486-defconfig-4.3.3 - Builds an i486 cross development toolchain + using gcc 4.3.3. Why wouldyou want such a thing? On Linux, of course, + such a thing is not needed because you can use the installed GCC to build + i486 ELF binaries. But that will not work under Cygwin! The Cygwin + toolchain (and probably MinGW), build DOS MZ format executables (i.e., + .exe files). That is probably not usable for most NuttX targets. + Instead, you should use this i486-elf-gcc to generate true ELF binaries + under Cygwin. + * Makefile - Alter copy arguments to avoid permissions problems when + copying NuttX header files. + * toolchain/nxflat/nxflat.mk and Makefile - Fix include paths. + * toolchain/gcc/3.3.6 - Added a patch to fixed compilation error on Ubuntu + 9.10. + * toolchain/nxflat/Makefile - Correct static library link order. + * configs/arm920t-defconfig-4.3.3 - Enable support for NXFLAT tools. + * toolchain/binutils/2.21 and toolchain/gcc/4.5.2 - Add support for GCC + 4.5.2 with binutils 2.21. + * configs/arm920t-eabi-defconfig-4.5.2 - Add a configuration to build a + GCC 4.5.2 EABI ARM toolchain for the ARM920t. +</pre></ul> + +<table width ="100%"> + <tr bgcolor="#e4e4e4"> + <td> + <a name="pendingchanges">Unreleased Changes</a> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<ul><pre> +nuttx-6.16 2012-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> + +apps-6.16 2012-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org> buildroot-1.11 2012-xx-xx <gnutt@nuttx.org> |