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diff --git a/nuttx/Documentation/NuttX.html b/nuttx/Documentation/NuttX.html index dad9c1172..2f92040df 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: May 14, 2011</p> + <p>Last Updated: May 15, 2011</p> </td> </tr> </table> @@ -829,16 +829,34 @@ </tr> </table> -<p><b>nuttx-6.2 Release Notes</b>: - +<p><b>nuttx-6.3 Release Notes</b>: <p> - The 69<sup>th</sup> release of NuttX, Version 6.2, was made on May 6, 2011 and is available for download from the + The 70<sup>th</sup> release of NuttX, Version 6.3, was made on May 15, 2011 and is available for download from the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/nuttx/files/">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 SVN. These unreleased changes are also listed <a href="#pendingchanges">here</a>. </p> <p> + The release of NuttX-6.3 follows only a nines days after the release of version 6.2. + This special back-to-back release was made so that the current released version of + NuttX will correspond to the initial release from the RGMP project. +</p> +<p> + This release adds architecture support and build configuration for RGMP. + RGMP is a project for running GPOS and RTOS simultaneously on multi-processor platforms. + See the <a href="http://rgmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">RGMP Wiki</a> for further information about RGMP. +</p> +<p> + This release also includes support for STM32 FLASH, build improvements, and initial, incomplete support for the MicroChip PIC32MX MCU. + Bug fixes are included for some build problems, USB host class driver error handling, NX graphics color mapping, and problems with C standard I/O buffer flushing. + See the ChangeLog for further details. +</p> +<p> + Release notes for version 6.2 are retained because they are still relevant. +</p> +<p><b>nuttx-6.2 Release Notes</b>: +<p> The 6.2 NuttX release includes several new features: </p> <ul> @@ -1425,6 +1443,83 @@ <tr> <td valign="top"><img height="20" width="20" src="favicon.ico"></td> <td bgcolor="#5eaee1"> + <b>Atmel AVR32</b> + </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td><br></td> + <td> + <p> + <b>AV32DEV1</b>. + This port uses the www.mcuzone.com AVRDEV1 board based on the Atmel AT32UC3B0256 MCU. + This port requires a special GNU avr32 toolchain available from atmel.com website. + This is a windows native toolchain and so can be used only under Cygwin on Windows. + </p> + <ul> + <p> + <b>STATUS:</b> + This port is has completed all basic development, but there is more that needs to be done. + All code is complete for the basic NuttX port including header files for all AT32UC3* peripherals. + The untested AVR32 code was present in the 5.12 release of NuttX. + Since then, the basic RTOS port has solidified: + <ul> + <li> + The port successfully passes the NuttX OS test (apps/examples/ostest). + </li> + <li> + A NuttShell (NSH) configuration is in place (see the <a href="http://www.nuttx.org/NuttShell.html">NSH User Guide</a>). + Testing of that configuration has been postponed (because it got bumped by the Olimex LPC1766-STK port). + Current Status: I think I have a hardware problem with my serial port setup. + There is a good chance that the NSH port is complete and functional, but I am not yet able to demonstrate that. + At present, I get nothing coming in the serial RXD line (probably because the pins are configured wrong or I have the MAX232 connected wrong). + </li> + </ul> + The basic, port (including the verified apps/examples/ostest configuration) was be released in NuttX-5.13. + A complete port will include drivers for additional AVR32 UC3 devices -- like SPI and USB --- and will be available in a later release, + time permitting. + </p> + </ul> + </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td valign="top"><img height="20" width="20" src="favicon.ico"></td> + <td bgcolor="#5eaee1"> + <b>Freescale M68HSC12</b> + </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td><br></td> + <td> + <p> + <b>MC9S12NE64</b>. + Support for the MC9S12NE64 MCU and two boards are included: + </p> + <ul> + <li> + The Freescale DEMO9S12NE64 Evaluation Board, and + </li> + <li> + The Future Electronics Group NE64 /PoE Badge board. + </li> + </ul> + <p> + Both use a GNU arm-elf toolchain* under Linux or Cygwin. + The NuttX <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/nuttx/files/buildroot/">buildroot</a> provides a properly patched GCC 3.4.4 toolchain that is highly optimized for the m9s12x family. + </p> + <ul> + <p> + <b>STATUS:</b> + Coding is complete for the MC9S12NE64 and for the NE64 Badge board. + However, testing has not yet begun due to issues with BDMs, Code Warrior, and + the paging in the build process. + Progress is slow, but I hope to see a fully verified MC9S12NE64 port in the near future. + </p> + </ul> + </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td valign="top"><img height="20" width="20" src="favicon.ico"></td> + <td bgcolor="#5eaee1"> <b>Intel 8052 Microcontroller</b> </td> </tr> @@ -1451,7 +1546,7 @@ <tr> <td valign="top"><img height="20" width="20" src="favicon.ico"></td> <td bgcolor="#5eaee1"> - <b>Intel 80486 (i486) Microprocessor</b> + <b>Intel 80x86</b> </td> </tr> <tr> @@ -1474,37 +1569,28 @@ </td> </tr> <tr> - <td valign="top"><img height="20" width="20" src="favicon.ico"></td> - <td bgcolor="#5eaee1"> - <b>Frescale M68HSC12</b> - </td> + <td><br></td> + <td><hr></td> </tr> <tr> <td><br></td> <td> <p> - <b>MC9S12NE64</b>. - Support for the MC9S12NE64 MCU and two boards are included: + <b>RGMP</b>. + RGMP stands for RTOS and GPOS on Multi-Processor. + RGMP is a project for running GPOS and RTOS simultaneously on multi-processor platforms + You can port your favorite RTOS to RGMP together with an unmodified Linux to form a hybrid operating system. + This makes your application able to use both RTOS and GPOS features. </p> - <ul> - <li> - The Freescale DEMO9S12NE64 Evaluation Board, and - </li> - <li> - The Future Electronics Group NE64 /PoE Badge board. - </li> - </ul> <p> - Both use a GNU arm-elf toolchain* under Linux or Cygwin. - The NuttX <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/nuttx/files/buildroot/">buildroot</a> provides a properly patched GCC 3.4.4 toolchain that is highly optimized for the m9s12x family. + See the <a href="http://rgmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">RGMP Wiki</a> for further information about RGMP. </p> <ul> <p> <b>STATUS:</b> - Coding is complete for the MC9S12NE64 and for the NE64 Badge board. - However, testing has not yet begun due to issues with BDMs, Code Warrior, and - the paging in the build process. - Progress is slow, but I hope to see a fully verified MC9S12NE64 port in the near future. + This initial port of NuttX to RGMP was provided in NuttX-6.3. + This initial RGP port provides only minimal driver support and does not use the native NuttX interrupt system. + This is a great, stable starting point for anyone interest in working with NuttX under RGMP! </p> </ul> </td> @@ -1512,40 +1598,28 @@ <tr> <td valign="top"><img height="20" width="20" src="favicon.ico"></td> <td bgcolor="#5eaee1"> - <b>Atmel AVR32</b> + <b>MicroChip PIC32 (MIPS)</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><br></td> <td> <p> - <b>AV32DEV1</b>. - This port uses the www.mcuzone.com AVRDEV1 board based on the Atmel AT32UC3B0256 MCU. - This port requires a special GNU avr32 toolchain available from atmel.com website. - This is a windows native toolchain and so can be used only under Cygwin on Windows. + <b>PIC32MX460F512L</b>. + A port of NuttX to the PIC32MX460F512L is underway. + This port uses the PIC32MX board from PCB Logic Design Co. + The board is a very simple -- little more than a carrier for the PIC32 MCU plus voltage regulation, debug interface, and an OTG connector. + </p> + <p> + <b>Development Environment:</b> + This port uses the <i>LITE</i> version of the PIC32MX toolchain available + for download from the <a href="http://www.microchip.com">MicroChip</a> website. </p> <ul> <p> <b>STATUS:</b> - This port is has completed all basic development, but there is more that needs to be done. - All code is complete for the basic NuttX port including header files for all AT32UC3* peripherals. - The untested AVR32 code was present in the 5.12 release of NuttX. - Since then, the basic RTOS port has solidified: - <ul> - <li> - The port successfully passes the NuttX OS test (apps/examples/ostest). - </li> - <li> - A NuttShell (NSH) configuration is in place (see the <a href="http://www.nuttx.org/NuttShell.html">NSH User Guide</a>). - Testing of that configuration has been postponed (because it got bumped by the Olimex LPC1766-STK port). - Current Status: I think I have a hardware problem with my serial port setup. - There is a good chance that the NSH port is complete and functional, but I am not yet able to demonstrate that. - At present, I get nothing coming in the serial RXD line (probably because the pins are configured wrong or I have the MAX232 connected wrong). - </li> - </ul> - The basic, port (including the verified apps/examples/ostest configuration) was be released in NuttX-5.13. - A complete port will include drivers for additional AVR32 UC3 devices -- like SPI and USB --- and will be available in a later release, - time permitting. + This port is in its very earliest stages -- most just header file development. + Stay tuned for future releases including verified PIC32 support. </p> </ul> </td> @@ -1751,26 +1825,12 @@ BFD_ASSERT (*plt_offset != (bfd_vma) -1); <ul> </td> </tr> -<tr> - <td valign="top"><img height="20" width="20" src="favicon.ico"></td> - <td bgcolor="#5eaee1"> - <b>Other ports</b> - </td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td><br></td> - <td> - <p> - There are partial ports for the TI TMS320DM270 and for MIPS. - </p> - </td> -</tr> </table></center> <blockquote>* A highly modified <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">buildroot</a> is available that may be used to build a NuttX-compatible ELF toolchain under -Linux or Cygwin. Configurations are available in that buildroot to support ARM, -m68k, m68hc11, m68hc12, and SuperH ports.</blockquote> +Linux or Cygwin. Configurations are available in that buildroot to support ARM, Cortex-M3, +avr, m68k, m68hc11, m68hc12, m9s12, blackfin, m32c, h8, and SuperH ports.</blockquote> <table width ="100%"> <tr bgcolor="#e4e4e4"> @@ -2142,56 +2202,11 @@ nuttx-6.2 2011-05-06 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> * fs/nxffs: After a couple of weeks of testing and bug fixes, NXFSS appears stable and functional. -apps-6.2 2011-05-06 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> - - * apps/examples/nxffs: Add a test a a configuration that will be used to - verify NXFFS. - -pascal-2.0 2009-12-21 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> - - * Updated to use standard C99 types in stdint.h and - stdbool.h. This change was necessary for compatibility - with NuttX-5.0 (any beyond). - -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-6.3 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> +nuttx-6.3 2011-05-15 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> * Remove clock_getutc(). It is replaces with clock_gettime(CLOCK_ACTIVETIME). Add other RTC related changes provided by Uros Platise. - * arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_flash.c: Add support for access to on-chp STM32 + * arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_flash.c: Add support for access to on-chip STM32 FLASH; beginning of integration with NXFFS (Uros Platise). * arch/mips: Added directory structure for PIC32 support * configs/pcblogic-pic32mx: Add directory structure for PCB Logic PIC32MX board @@ -2219,12 +2234,17 @@ nuttx-6.3 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> * lib/stdio: All output stream logic was modified to support CONFIG_STDIO_LINEBUFFER. If standard C buffered I/O is enabled (CONFIG_STDIO_BUFFER_SIZE > 0), then this option may be added to force automatic, line-oriented flushing the output buffer - for putc(), fputc(), putchar(), puts(), fputs(), printf() fprintf(), and vfprintf(). + for putc(), fputc(), putchar(), puts(), fputs(), printf(), fprintf(), and vfprintf(). When a newline is encountered in the output string, the output buffer will be flushed. This (slightly) increases the NuttX footprint but supports the kind of behavior that people expect for printf. -apps-6.3 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> +apps-6.2 2011-05-06 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> + + * apps/examples/nxffs: Add a test a a configuration that will be used to + verify NXFFS. + +apps-6.3 2011-05-15 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> * apps/interpreter: Add a directory to hold interpreters. The Pascal add- on module now installs and builds under this directory. @@ -2241,6 +2261,50 @@ apps-6.3 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> for further information about RGMP. NOTE: This is an empty example on initial check-in. +pascal-2.0 2009-12-21 Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> + + * Updated to use standard C99 types in stdint.h and + stdbool.h. This change was necessary for compatibility + with NuttX-5.0 (any beyond). + +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-6.4 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> + +apps-6.4 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> + pascal-3.0 2011-xx-xx Gregory Nutt <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr> * nuttx/: The Pascal add-on module now installs and builds under the |