DSP/BIOS 5.33 Release Notes

This release note is divided into the following sections:

Introduction, Documentation, What's New, Upgrading And Compatibility Information, Host Support, Dependencies, Device Support, Validation Information, Known Issues, Benchmarks, Versioning, Technical Support And Product Updates,


Introduction

DSP/BIOS 5.33 is a point release of DSP/BIOS. DSP/BIOS 5.33 highlights include:

Please read the Setup Guide for help installing and setting up your environment to use DSP/BIOS 5.33.

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Documentation

The following documentation is provided with this release:

Additional release note documentation:

Release notes from previous releases are also available in the release notes archive directory.

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What's New

aAdded support for the new 674x device. The 674x is floating point, binary code compatible, superset of the 64x+ device. 

Added support for the 5505 device, including support for huge model which is supported by v3 of the 55x core. 

Added examples for the dsk5505, evm6474, and evmOMAPL137.

Cleanup of generated .cmd files to be compatible with new and legacy linkers (5.1.x/28x, 4.2.x/55x, and 6.1.x/6x). The generated *cfg.cmd files have been updated to use RUN_START/RUN_END syntax (instead of '.=') to generate symbols where necessary. Prior to this change, there were some comaptibility problems with old/new linkers for 28x and 55x. Note that the 6.1.x linker will still generate a warning for 62x, 64x, and 67x applications. This warning does not occur for 64x+, 67x+ or 674x targets. Until this issue is resolved we recommend using 6.0.x tools when using DSP/BIOS 5.33 for 62x, 64x, or 67x. This issue is tracked by SDSCM00027852.

5.33 Release (this release)

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Upgrading And Compatibility Information

DSP/BIOS is binary compatible with DSP/BIOS 5.32 (and all the way back to DSP/BIOS 5.21). Users do not need to recompile your source files or libraries when updating to BIOS 5.33. However users *must* rebuild their configuration since the generated linker .cmd file (<prog>cfg.cmd) is different.

Solaris host is no longer supported in this release. Customer-critical bug fixes to earlier releases will be available to Solaris users if required.

DSP/BIOS 5.33 does not support TMS320C54xx devices. Users of such devices should continue use DSP/BIOS 5.31.xx earlier releases. For customer-critical 54xx-related issues, TI will continue to provide fixes to earlier versions when needed.

DSP/BIOS 5.33 no longer contains RTDX examples. DSP/BIOS 5.33 does continue to provide the RTDX libraries so existing applications using RTDX will continue to build and execute without any issues. To obtain RTDX examples, users should download the RTDX 2.0 release from:

https://www-a.ti.com/downloads/sds_support/targetcontent/index.html

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:

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Host Support

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Dependencies

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Device Support

This release supports the following devices:

  Device


28x F2801, F2806, F2808, F2810, F2811, F2812, F28232, F28234, F28235, F28332, F28334, F28335

55x 5501, 5502, 5503, 5505, 5507, 5509, 5509A, DA255,  DA295, DA300, 5510, 5510A, 5561, DA255, DA295, DA300, OMAP1035, OMAP1510, OMAP1610, OMAP1710, OMAP5903, OMAP5905, OMAP5910, OMAP5912, OMAP5944, OMAP5946, OMAP5948, OMAP2320, OMAP2420, TNETV1050, TNETV1055
62x 6202, 6203, 6203B, 6204, 6205, 6211, 6211B
64x 6410, 6411, 6412, 6413, 6414, 6415, 6416, 6418, DM415, DM420, DM421, DM425, DM426, DM640, DM641, DM642, DRI300
64x+ 6421, 6424, 6428, 6452, 6454, 6455, 6474, DM6431, DM6433, DM6435, DM6437, DM6441, DM6443, DM6446, DM6467,  DM647, DM648, TCI6482,  DRA402, DRA404, DRA406,  DRA414, DRA416, DRA442, DRA444, DRA446, F761990, OMAP2420, OMAP2430, OMAP2431, OMAP2530, OMAP2531, OMAP3425, OMAP3430, OMAP3525,  OMAP3530, TCI6482, TCI6484, TCI6486, TCI6487, TCI6488, TCI6486,  TNETV2685

67x 6701, 6711, 6711 - 250, 6712, 6713, 6713 - 300
67x+ 6722, 6726, 6727, DA700, DA705, DA707, DA710

674xOMAPL137, DA830

 
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Validation Information

This release was built using the following components:

This release was validated using the following components:

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Known Issues

The following issues are known to affect this release:

 Please check the following link for additional information when upgrading from 4.90 to 5.x -- Knowledge base with known 4.90 to 5.x upgrade issues  back to top

Benchmarks

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Versioning

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. bios_5_33.

Subsequent releases of patch upgrades will be identified by the patch number, ex. BIOS 5.33.01 with directory bios_5_33_01. Typically, these patches only include critical bug fixes.

Please note that version numbers and compatibility keys are NOT the same. For an explanation of compatibility keys, please refer to the 'Upgrade and Compatibility Information' section.

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Technical Support And Product Updates

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Last updated: Sept 10, 2008