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IPC Utils 1.00.00.03 Release Notes

August 2012

Introduction, Documentation, What's New, Upgrade Info, Compatibility Information, Validation Info, Known Issues, Device Support, Examples, Version Information, Technical Support.


Introduction

The IPC Utils are a collection of

Primary packages in this IPC Utils release are briefly described here. (There are others, see the Configuration Reference Guide documentation for a complete package list.)

The IPC Utils are provided as non-rebuildable libraries. Source is provided for debugging and educational value, but is not intended to be modified. Modified sources will not be supported.

Some distributions of this product include an "ipctools" directory containing some dependent products for convenience. Products included in this release are:


Documentation

The following documentation is available:

In addition, users are encouraged to monitor (and contribute to!) the TI Embedded Processors Wiki.


What's New

The following significant changes have been made since 1.00

1.00.00.03


Upgrade Information

The IPC Utils packages are available in the "packages/" subdirectory of the product. If you have a previous release of this product, you can install this release next to it, and modify your application and/or server builds to use this newer release.

Note, if you're upgrading from a release earlier than IPC Utislundefined, be sure to review the Upgrade section for each of the releases between your current IPC Utils release and this one. Previous release notes are available in the relnotes_archive directory.

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Compatibility Information

The details provided below describe each package's compatibility with the previous release ().

Note, the Configuration Reference Guide contains further details about each package.

The following packages are being introduced in this release, and therefore have no compatibility with previous releases.

Package Compatibility key
ti.sdo.opencl 1, 0, 0
ti.sdo.opencl.platforms.c6a8149 1, 0, 0
ti.sdo.rcm 2, 0, 0
ti.sdo.tiler.remote 1, 0, 0

If migrating from a release prior to <>, consult previous releases available in the relnotes_archive directory.

Compatibility Key Definitions

Compatibility keys are intentionally independent of Marketing product numbers and are intended to:

  1. Enable tooling to identify incompatibilities between components, and
  2. Convey a level of compatibility between different releases to set end user expectations.

Compatibility keys are composed of 3 comma-delimited numbers - M,S,R - where:


Device Support

This release supports the following devices:

Support for TI814X with QNX on ARM in this release, is limited.


Validation

This release was built and validated against using the following software components. Please use the versions below or any other that are compatible with the below:

This release was validated using the following hardware platforms. Note that more devices are supported, but validation was only performed on a subset:

C674

M3


Known Issues

RCM


Examples

IPC Utils examples and instructions are located in the "examples" directory.


Version Information

This product's version follows a version format, M.mm.pp.bb, where M is a single digit Major number, mm is 2 digit minor number, pp is a 2 digit patch number, and b is an unrestricted set of digits used as an incrementing build counter.

To support multiple side-by-side installations of the product, the product version is encoded in the top level directory, ex. ipcutils_1_00_00_03.

Subsequent releases of patch upgrades will be identified by the patch number, ex. IPC Utils 1.00.01.XX with directory IPC_Utils_1_00_01_XX. Typically, these patches only include critical bug fixes.


Technical Support

Questions/issues regarding this release may be posted at the E2E forum at https://e2e.ti.com/support/embedded/default.aspx

Check the following web site for updates: https://software-dl.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_sb/targetcontent/ipcutils/index.html


Last updated: August 10, 2012