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diff --git a/nuttx/Documentation/NuttX.html b/nuttx/Documentation/NuttX.html index a69a77c26..7370f757e 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: July 21, 2011</p> + <p>Last Updated: August 1, 2011</p> </td> </tr> </table> @@ -655,6 +655,27 @@ </li> </p> </tr> +<tr> + <td><br></td> + <td> + <p> + <li>Font management sub-system.</li> + </p> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td valign="top" width="22"><img height="20" width="20" src="favicon.ico"></td> + <td bgcolor="#5eaee1"> + <b>Input Devices</b> + </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td><br></td> + <td> + <p> + <li>Touchscreen, USB keyboard, GPIO-based buttons and keypads. </li> + </p> +</tr> </table></center> <p> @@ -838,74 +859,79 @@ </tr> </table> -<p><b>nuttx-6.6 Release Notes</b>: +<p><b>nuttx-6.7 Release Notes</b>: <p> - The 73<sup>5d</sup> release of NuttX, Version 6.6, was made on July 11, 2011 and is available for download from the + The 74<sup>th</sup> release of NuttX, Version 6.7, was made on August 2, 2011, 2011 and is available for download from the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/nuttx/files/">SourceForge</a> website. - Note that release consists of two tarballs: <code>nuttx-6.6.tar.gz</code> and <code>apps-6.5.tar.gz</code>. + Note that release consists of two tarballs: <code>nuttx-6.7.tar.gz</code> and <code>apps-6.7.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> - The 6.6 release adds several smaller featurs but is mostly a bugfix release. - Bugfixes include + Changes in this release are summarized below: </p> <ul> <li> - Fixed several NX Graphics bugs: Rendering fonts at >8 bits-per-pixel, - graphics move logic, and display artifacts that appear when a window is closed. - </li> - <li> - Corrections to the USB host mass storage class driver - </li> - <li> - STM32 bugfixes: serial driver, GPIO interrupt handling + <b>New OS APIs</b>: + Add the standard <code>sem_timedwait()</code> interface. </li> <li> - LPC17xx: Changes for a success compilation with no console. + <b>FAT File System</b>: + Adds (optional) support for VFAT long file names. </li> <li> - Corrections to the Teensy AT90USB SD driver + <b>USB</b>: + Now the mass storage device can be connected when needed and + disconnected when not needed (or re-connected as a different kind of + device). </li> <li> - Changes for a clean compilation under the ZDS-II toolchain. + <b>Touchscreen Support</b>: + Defined a new NuttX touchscreen interface. + Added a driver for the TI TSC2007 touchscreen controller chip. </li> -</ul> -<p> - Minor features include: -</p> -<ul> <li> - Add logic to extract AVR <code>printf</code> strings from FLASH - (but there are still <code>printf</code> issues for that target) + <b>NX Fonts</b>: + Add support for multiple fonts; developed a tool to + convert open source fonts into NuttX format; Converted and installed + nine new, high quality fontsets. </li> <li> - Added a configuration for the <a href="http://www.sureelectronics.net">Sure Electronics</a> PIC32MX board. - However, higher priority tasks have stopped work on that configuration. + <b>NX Graphics</b>: + Add new NX APIs to support drawing of wide lines in any + orientation. Added new low level routines to set individual pixel + more efficiently. </li> <li> - Added several new configurations for the <a href=" http://www.st.com/">STMicro</a> STM3210E-EVAL board. + <b>Build system</b>: + Added a export target that will bundle up all of the + NuttX libraries, header files, and the startup object into an export-able tarball. </li> <li> - Added support for the STM3210E-EVAL board: (1) LCD in either landscape or portrait mode, and (2) interrupting buttons. + <b>LPC17xx</b>: + A CAN driver was contributed by Li Zhuoyi (Lzyy). </li> <li> - Added a configuration option to use different serial ports for debug and for the NSH serial console - (there are some issues with CR-LF expansion and character echo if NSH is not run on the console). + <b>STM32</b>: + New NX-related configurations to excercise text and graphic image displays. </li> <li> - Standardized the button press and button interrupt interfaces so that they are common across all boards. + <b>C Library</b>: + Added a fixed precision atan2() math function. </li> <li> - Added a new graphics example that focuses on placing text on the background while pop-up windows occur. - Text should continue to update normally with or without the popup windows present. - </li> - <li> - Added ARM stack checking logic. + <b>Bugfixes</b>: + Serial RX overrun error, FAT upper/lower NT 8.3 name + handling fixed. FAT directory allocation and initialization bug. + STM32 SDIO DMA race condition bug. eZ80 UART1 serial driver errors + (Paul Osmialowski) </li> </ul> +<p> + See the <a href="#currentrelease">ChangeLog</a> for details. +</p> <table width ="100%"> <tr bgcolor="#e4e4e4"> @@ -2437,124 +2463,7 @@ Other memory: </table> <ul><pre> -nuttx-6.6 2011-07-11 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> - - * drivers/mtd/ramtron.c, net/net_checksd.c, fs/fs_fdopen.c, and include/nuttx/mii.h: - Several structural changes made to get a clean compile under the ez80 ZDS-II - toolchain (no design changes). - * drivers/usbhost/usbhost_storage.c: Incorpated bugfixes reported by Sheref H. - Younan: (1) Read capacity logic read largest block, not the number of blocks - and was, therefore, off by one, and (2) Some devices stall of get Max LUN request - if they support only a single LUN. Logic now assumes a single LUN if the get - Max LUN request fails. - * include/nuttx/arch.h, lib/stdio/lib_libvsprintf.c, lib/stdio/lib_fputs.c: Add - a new configuration option to support extracting strings from FLASH or EEPROM - or other memories where the string data cannot be accessed by simply de-referencing - a string pointer. - * arch/sim/src/up_romgetc.c: Used to test the basic logic to access strings - without directly de-referencing a string pointer. - * arch/avr/src/avr/up_romget.c: Used to access strings that lie in the first - 64Kb of FLASH (But I still haven't figured out how to get strings to reside in - FLASH without using the PROGMEM attribute). - * configs/teensy/src/up_spi.c: Correct reading of SD CD and WP pins (was reading - the wrong register. AVR SPI now appears to be functional. - * arch/avr/src/at90usb/at90usb_usbdev.c: Correct USB initialization. Interrupts - were being enabled BEFORE the interrupt handler was attached. - * configs/sure-pic32mx: Add a configuration for the Sure Electronics, "Advanced USB - Storage Demo Board," Model DB-DP11215 (http://www.sureelectronics.net/goods.php?id=1168). - This board features the MicroChip PIC32MX440F512H MCU. (Untested on initial - check-in). - * configs/stm3210e-eval/nsh2: Add another NSH configuration for the STM32 with - some different properties. - * CONFIG_NSH_CONDEV: Add a configuration option to allow using a different character - device (such a a different UART) for the NSH interface. This allows, for example, - debug output to come from the console device while using another device for NSH. - There are some issues on initial check-in: NuttX doesn't have termios and the - console device has special properties that make using NSH awkward. Examples: - No CR-LF expansion, no character echoing, no command line editting. - * arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_lowputc.c and stm32_serial.c. Correct seversl bugs - involving serial port configuration. These bugs are only critical if you - are trying to using multiple UARTs on STM32. - * configs/stm3210e-eval/src/up_lcd.c: Add a driver for the STM3210E-EVAL's LCD. - * configs/stm3210e-eval/nx: Add NX configuration for the STM3210E-EVAL. - * configs/nuttx/arch.h (and arch/arm/src/stm32, configs/*/src/up_buttons.c): - Standardize interfaces exported for button support and button interrupts. - * configs/stm3210e-eval/src/up_buttons.c: Add interrupting button support. - Also fixes a few errors in STM3210E-EVAL button decoding. - * configs/stm3210e-eval/buttons: Add a configuration to exercise STM3210E-EVAL - buttons. - * arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_gpio.c: GPIO interrupt handling for pin - numbers were being aliased: 5-9 together and 10-15 together. Extended - the logic to peform decoding of GPIO interrupts and unique dispatching - for all 16 pins. - * configs/stm3210e-eval/nxtext: Add a configuration for the apps/examples/nxtext - example. This example focuses on placing text on the background while - pop-up windows occur. Text should continue to update normally with or without - the popup windows present. - * arch/arm/src/common/up_checkstack.c: ARM stack overflow checking submitted - by Hal Glenn. - * arch/arm/src/lpc17xx: Changes to compile successfully with no serial console - (also submitted by Hal Glenn). - * graphics/nxfonts/nxfonts_convert.c: Fixed a critical bug that caused - when renderer some fonts with bits-per-pixel > 8 - * graphics/nxbe/nxbe_move.c: Fixed an error in the graphics move logic (This - was a previously untested interface). Basically, there is some confusion - between use of (x,y) as a relative offset or as an absolute position. - * graphics/nxbe/nxbe_close.c: Fixed an important graphics system bug: - When a window is closed, the display was not being updated. The old - window graphic was left on the display for a time. - -apps-6.6 2011-07-11 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> - - * Make.defs, namedapp/namedapp.c: Several structural changes made to get a - clean compile under the ez80 ZDS-II toolchain (no design changes). - * apps/examples/buttons: Add a test for the new standardized button interfaces - * apps/examples/nxtext: Add another NX graphics test. This one focus on - placing text on the background while pop-up windows occur. Text should - continue to update normally with or without the popup windows present. - -pascal-1.0 2011-05-15 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> - - * 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 <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> - - * 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-6.7 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> +nuttx-6.7 2011-08-02 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> * Makefile: Added a export target that will bundle up all of the NuttX libraries, header files, and the startup object into an export-able @@ -2594,8 +2503,37 @@ nuttx-6.7 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> ID and returns a handle that is now used at all other font interfaces to specify which of the multiple fonts to use. * arch/arm/src/lpc17xx/lpc17_syscon.h: Fix typo (reported by Li Zhuoyi). - -apps-6.7 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> + * configs/stm3210e-eval/nsh2: Extended to support two new commands: + 'msconn' will connect the USB mass storage device; 'msdis' will + disconnect the USB storage device. + * tools/bdf-converter.c. This C file is used to build the bdf-converter + program. The bdf-converter program be used to convert fonts in Bitmap + Distribution Format (BDF) into fonts that can be used in the NX graphics + system. + * include/nuttx/nx: Move all NX header files from include/nuttx to + include/nuttx/nx. + * drivers/usbdev/usbdev_usbstorage.c and arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_usbdev.c: + Correct a memory leak when the USB mass storage driver is connected and + then disconnected from the target. The write requests were not being + freed. NOTE that the unregister logic in the STM32 needed to call + stm32_reset() in order to return the write requests to the USB mass + storage driver; it is possible that a similar but could exist for other + architectures. + * graphics/nxfonts/nxfonts_*.h: Add serveral more new fonts + * arch/z80/src/ez80/ez80_serial.c: Fix some errors in serial driver + setup for UART1 (submitted by Paul Osmialowski). + * drivers/input/tsc2007.c and include/nuttx/input/*: Add a generic NuttX + touchscreen interface. Add a driver for the TI TSC2007 touchscreen + controller. + * graphics/nxglib/lcd and fb: Add low level routines to set single pixels. + * lib/math/lib_b16atan2.c: Add a fixed precision atan2() function + * graphics/nxglib/nxglib_splitline.c: Add logic to divide a wide line into + trapezoidal components. + * graphics/nxmu/nx_drawline.c, graphics/nxsu/nx_drawline.c, + graphics/nxtk/nxtk_drawlinewindow.c, graphics/nxtk/nxtk_drawlinetoolbar.c: + Add new line drawing interfaces (untested). + +apps-6.7 2011-08-02 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> * apps/examples/nx and nxtext: These examples can now be built as NSH "built-in" commands. @@ -2607,6 +2545,60 @@ apps-6.7 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> * apps/examples/nximage: Another super simple graphics example: It just puts the NuttX logo in the center of the display. This example can also be built as an NSH "built-in" command. + * apps/examples/usbstorage: Can now be built as two NSH "built-in" commands: + 'msconn' will connect the USB mass storage device; 'msdis' will disconnect + the USB storage device. + * apps/examples/nx*: All NX header files moved from nuttx/include/nuttx to + nuttx/include/nuttx/nx. + * apps/examples/usbstorage: Added instrumentation to monitor memory usage + to check for memory leaks in the USB storage driver. + * apps/examples/nxhello/nxhello_bkgd.c: Fix handling of allocated glyph + memory. + +pascal-1.0 2011-05-15 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> + + * 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 <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> + + * 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-6.8 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> + +apps-6.8 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> pascal-3.1 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> |