SYS/BIOS 6.40.02.27 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 6.40.02.27 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 6.40.02.27.

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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 6.40.02.27 GA Release (this release).

Defects Fixed in SYS/BIOS 6.40.02.27 GA (Fixes since SYS/BIOS 6.40.01):
ID                               Headline
SDOCM00107962    Cortex-A15 Instrumented/NonInstrumented libraries do not work for Keystone2 devices
SDOCM00107893    Use cases for which the cache settings from a platform are not read correctly in Cache.xs
SDOCM00107882    Update Product View's "Target Specific Support" list
SDOCM00107858    A8 MMU ROV view does not work for Page Table descriptors
SDOCM00107767    Check for overflow in the SYS/BIOS calloc() routine
SDOCM00107763    cc26xx applications require LibType_Custom. We should detect something other than this and give appropriate error message.
SDOCM00107742    tiva Boot module code needs to be synced with the latest version of tivaware driverlib code.
SDOCM00107704    Back to back calls to m3.TimestampProvider_get32() and get64() can appear to be 0xffffff counts apart.
SDOCM00107690    getFreqMeta() in various TimestampProviders should use Clock.$object.timer.delegete$ to obtain Clock module Timer handle
SDOCM00107635    Update 'cortexm' .cfg files to include Boot/driverlib support for CC26xx
SDOCM00107481    SMP ducati Timer module missing Timer_getCurrentTick() API
SDOCM00107405    SYS/BIOS fails to build for IAR MSP430 v6.10
SDOCM00107330    Restrict modules recognized by BIOS.includeXdcRuntime=true to only those modules in the xdc.runtime package
SDOCM00107311    Clock tick stop/reconfig/start APIs should be made no-ops for Clock_TickMode_DYNAMIC
SDOCM00107305    BIOS 6.37.00.20 uninstaller and install log Linux permissions prevent access for group/all users
SDOCM00107241    Mailbox module startup function references Memory module API even when run time creates are disabled (STATIC policy)
SDOCM00107238    Hwi_plug is missing for ti.sysbios.family.arp32
SDOCM00106330    cdoc for SMP mode APIs like Task_setAffinity/getAffinity should clearly identify these APIs are available in SMP mode only
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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: June 02, 2014 Build Ver: 6.40.02.27 Rev: o27