SYS/BIOS 6.41.02.41 GA 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

SYS/BIOS 6.41.02.41 is a GA release of SYS/BIOS 6.40.00. CCS users must use CCSv6.0.0 or higher. This release also has support for GCC (for Cortex-M) and IAR (for Cortex-M and MSP430).

Please read the SYS/BIOS User's Guide for help installing and setting up your environment to use SYS/BIOS 6.41.02.41.

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Documentation

The following documentation is provided with this release. These documents are also available via the CCS Eclipse help table of contents.

License and manifest.

SYS/BIOS Manifest and License

Additional online sources of documentation.

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

What's New

SYS/BIOS 6.41.02.41 GA Release (this release).

Maintenance release. See bug list below for more info.

Defects Fixed in SYS/BIOS 6.41.02.41 GA (Fixes since SYS/BIOS 6.41.01):

ID                              Headline
SDOCM00114493    Mailbox_getNumPendingMsgs() returns bad values after a call to Mailbox_post() when a task is blocked on Mailbox_pend().
SDOCM00114488    GIO_prime() does not set misc field to 1, preventing the callback function from putting the packet in the done queue
SDOCM00114479    Fix errors and warnings introduced when building SYS/BIOS apps with "-std=c99" option and GNU Toolchain
SDOCM00114473    Add support for MSP430F67641
SDOCM00114443    Update iar.targets.*/std.h to tag xdc__META() strings with __no_alloc so they are not loaded on the target
SDOCM00114318    C6x Hwi module's instance_init() function should validate the interrupt number passed to Hwi_create() is in range
SDOCM00114149    Add support for K2G A15 and DSP
SDOCM00113725    ti.platform.evmTDA3XX platform should add OCMC RAM to its memory map
SDOCM00113724    bios.mak should be compatible with IAR MSP430 6.10.1 tools

Upgrading and Compatibility Information

SYS/BIOS software downloads

SYS/BIOS 6.35 and 6.37

Binary compatible for all targets except MSP430 and C2000.
MSP430 and C2000 users must recompile all source files that use the Semaphore, Mailbox, or Event modules. The timeout parameter was changed from UInt to UInt32 which are different sizes.
All other users can use libraries built with 6.35.0x and 6.37.0x with 6.40.00.

SYS/BIOS 6.34 and older

Source compatible. All APIs are supported but all source files must be recompiled.

Host Support

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 8, Windows 7
Ubuntu [10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04]

Dependencies

Minimum Required Software Versions
- Code Composer Studio v6.0.x or later
- TI Code Generation Tools
  - C28X version 6.2.5 or later
  - C6X version 7.4.7 or later
  - ARM version 5.1.5 or later
  - MSP430 version 4.3.1 or later
  - XDCTools 3.30.00.21 or later
- GNU Code Generation Tools (for ARM only)
- IAR Code Generation Tools (for Arm Cortex-M and MSP430 only)
Required Hardware
- See Device Support Section below.

Device Support

Click here for the list of supported devices.

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Validation Information

Click here for the list of compilers used to build and validate this release (scroll down to Supported Targets section).

Known Issues

The following issues are known to affect this release:

None.

Benchmarks

For a full description of Benchmarks please see the appendices in the SYS/BIOS 6 User's Guide.

Timing and Size Benchmarks

Versioning

All releases have 4 digits (M.mm.pp.bb). This includes GA and pre-releases (engineering, alpha/EA, beta, etc.). Pre-releases are denoted with a suffix (e.g. 6.30.00.00-eng or 6.30.00.10-beta).

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 (e.g. bios_6_30_00_00).

Subsequent releases of patch upgrades will be identified by the patch number, ex. SYS/BIOS 6.30.01.15 with directory bios_6_30_01_15. 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.

Technical Support and Product Updates

Last updated: January 30, 2015 Build Ver: 6.41.02.41 Rev: p41