SYS/BIOS 6.42.00.08 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 6.42.00.08 is a GA release of SYS/BIOS 6.42.00.  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 6.42.00.08.

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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.
Additional online sources of documentation.

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

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What's New

SYS/BIOS 6.42.00.08 GA Release (this release).

Defects Fixed in SYS/BIOS 6.42.00.08 GA (Fixes since SYS/BIOS 6.41.04):
ID                              Headline
SDOCM00114590    When debugging CC3200 GCC apps, Task and Hwi ROV views report that an error occurred while trying to retrieve Hwi stack info
SDOCM00115278    CC26xx: check LF clock source selected in CCFG to determine if should do RCOSC_LF calibration
SDOCM00115279    CC26xx: adjust RCOSC_LF algorithm to achieve better accuracy
SDOCM00115288    CC26xx Power: remove redundant AUX power on status check upon wake from standby
SDOCM00115340    TMS320F2837x Boot_initFlash() function does not get discarded even if it is not referenced
SDOCM00115451    SMP version of Task_setPri() leaves room for a potential race that can break Task scheduling
SDOCM00115615    SMP N core task scheduling bug fixes and other SMP performance improvements
SDOCM00115616    Add Hwi stack check support for all cores in SMP mode (presently it is only done on Core 0).
SDOCM00115641    cc26xx GP timers should declare the Power_SB_DISALLOW constraint
SDOCM00115645    SYSBIOS C2000 zero-latency interrupt contains a bug
SDOCM00115665    ROV Program.getSymbolValue("__STACK_SIZE") not found in GNU M3/M4 targets
SDOCM00115672    SMP/A15 Hwi stk size alignment code does not work if stk size not cache line size aligned(fix in BIOS 6.41.04 broken)
SDOCM00115691    cc26xx Power: further reduce memory footprint when RCOSC calibration is disabled
SDOCM00115776    cc26xx: remove support for PG1, PG2.0, and PG2.1 devices
SDOCM00115852    cc26xx: fully remove the Boot module's backdoor recovery mechanism
SDOCM00115882    update CC26xx/IAR ROM build flow to "include" common .icf file for ROM symbols
SDOCM00115966    ti.catalog.c6000.TMS320C6654 missing .xs file
SDOCM00115979    Make BIOS.includeXdcRuntime a public API (leave the default as 'false' for now)
SDOCM00116062    include CC2650-specific size benchmark data in the release notes
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Upgrading and Compatibility Information

SYS/BIOS software downloads

SYS/BIOS 6.35 and 6.37

SYS/BIOS 6.34 and older
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Host Support

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Dependencies

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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).

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Known Issues

The following issues are known to affect this release:

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Benchmarks

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

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.

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Technical Support and Product Updates

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Last updated: May 04, 2015 Build Ver: 6.42.00.08 Rev: q08