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EDMA3 LLD 02.10.04 Release Notes

October 12, 2010

This EDMA3 Low Level Driver Release is targeted to the users (device drivers and applications) for submitting and synchronizing with EDMA3 based DMA transfers. This release supports DA830,C6748,TCI6498,TI816X,C6472,TCI6486,TI814X platforms, on DSP/BIOS 6 side & OMAPL138 on DSP/BIOS and ARM side. Porting instructions are also provided to use the package for different platforms and Operating Systems.

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


Introduction

EDMA3 LLD is a single product package containing the following stand-alone software components:

EDMA3 Resource Manager can be used independently whereas the EDMA3 Driver requires the Resource Manager services internally.

EDMA3 LLD (both Resource Manager and the Driver) is a platform independent package. Hence it can be used across multiple platforms. Porting instructions are provided for both the components to do the same.

It is also an OS-agnostic package and thus can be used across multiple operating systems. OS-adaptation layer needs to be provided by the user (in case it is needed) for OS customization. Instructions to do the same are also provided along with the package.

The Low Level Driver has already been ported (DSP/BIOS Operating Systems) and tested on various platforms mentioned below. Sample initialization libraries, which configure the EDMA3 hardware and provide the necessary OS abstraction layer, are also a part of the package. These libraries are available both for the EDMA3 Resource Manager and EDMA3 Driver. These could be used for proper initialization of the software component(s) along with the OS adaptation layer for the same.

The Low Level Driver consists of the following packages:

Documentation

The following documentation is available:


What's New

The following significant changes have been made since 02.10.03:

02.10.04 - This release

The following ECNs are implemented:

ID Headline
TIDSP00012497 Support for the target C66X (ELF) in the Generic library of Resource Manager has been implemented
This release uses a different CGTOOLS - C6000 Code Generation Tools 7.2.0A10271 for these ELF libraries alone.
An Environmental variable 'CGTOOLS_ELF' has to be set pointing to the directory where this verion of CGTOOLS is installed.
The default value being "C:/Program Files/Texas Instruments/C6000 Code Generation Tools 7.2.0A10271"

The following IRs are closed:

ID Headline
SDOCM00074290 EDMA3LLD should not ship config.bld in the 'packages\' folder
From this release onwards only a '_config.bld' will be shipped in the 'packages\' folder and hence one has to rename it to 'config.bld' before building any EDMA3LLD libraries or applicaitons
SDOCM00074466 Generic library in Resource Manager returns an error while calling EDMA3_RM_OPEN


Upgrade Information

The EDMA3 LLD packages are available in the "packages/" subdirectory of the product. If you have a previous release of the EDMA3 LLD product, you can install this release next to it, and modify your application and/or server builds to use this newer release.


Device Support

This release supports and has been tested on the following devices:


Compatibility Information

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:


Validation

This release was built and validated against using the following components:

This release was validated in the following configurations:


Known Issues

The following are known issues with the current EDMA3 LLD release:

Pre-built instrumented libraries for DA830 not provided initially.

Pre-built instrumented EDMA3 libraries for DA830 will not be provided initially. XDC does not support the same and hence the limitation. See IR# SDOCM00036738 for more details.

EDMA3 hardware does not work properly in FIFO mode with all the controllers.

Very few peripherals support EDMA3 FIFO mode. EMIF controller doesn't support the same. So EDMA3 CANNOT be used in FIFO mode for doing a memory-to-memory data transfers, EDMA3 being configured in the FIFO mode. Applications trying to use EDMA3 in FIFO mode should first check their respective peripheral-controller document for this mode support.

PingPong Example Fails for certain EDMA instances for some DSP cores in Release mode only.

The PingPong example in the package fails for certain EDMA Instances for some DSP cores in Release mode only. It passes for Debug mode. See IR# SDOCM00064758 for more details.


Examples

EDMA3 LLD sample initialization libraries / OS abstraction layers (for different platforms) are located in:

EDMA3 LLD stand-alone applications (for different platforms) are located in:


Version Information

This product's version follows a version format, M.mm.pp.bb, where M is a 2 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. edma3_lld_02_10_04_XX.

Subsequent releases of patch upgrades will be identified by the patch number, ex. EDMA3 LLD 02.10.05 with directory edma3_lld_02_10_05_YY. Typically, these patches only include critical bug fixes.


Technical Support

For technical support, contact softwaresupport@ti.com


Last updated: October 12, 2010