SYS/BIOS 6.32.04.49 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 6.32.04.49 is a GA release of SYS/BIOS 6.32.00.

SYS/ BIOS is a real-time operating system that provides pre-emptive deterministic multithreading. The SYS/BIOS 6.x releases introduce a completely new SYS/BIOS kernel and toolset. The SYS/BIOS 6.x releases include numerous major enhancements, including completely new kernel APIs. They also include compatibility layers and tooling to facilitate easy porting of applications developed on DSP/BIOS 5.x releases.

A number of tools and libraries that were provided as an integrated part of DSP/BIOS 5.x releases must now be downloaded separately to obtain a functional solution. It is essential for even experienced DSP/BIOS users to refer to the Getting Started Guide and to the Upgrading and Compatibility Information section for further details.

Please read the Getting Started Guide for help installing and setting up your environment to use SYS/BIOS 6.32.04.49.

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Documentation

The following documentation is provided with this release. These documents are also available via teh 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 6.32.04.49 GA Release (this release).

Defects Fixed in SYS/BIOS 6.32.04.49 GA (Fixes since SYS/BIOS 6.32.03.43):
ID                               Headline
SDOCM00083657    Update eclipse plugin .xml files to work with CCSv5.1.0
SDOCM00083654    BIOS 6: Add period input clock frequency validation to Timer or Clock module to detect configuration errors
SDOCM00083652    C28x does not hook up the correct Boot module to the Overview page (need to fix family/c28/Settings.xs)
SDOCM00083650    add BIOS support for TCI6614
SDOCM00083648    CpIntc host ints are incorrect for C6678 and TMS320TCI6608
SDOCM00083645    stellaris timer config/gui:  change to id using drop-down does not change id, need to use advanced page
SDOCM00083643    BIOS 6: LM3 TimestampProvider CDOC is incorrect
SDOCM00083641    problems with Timestamp module usage from the BIOS config/gui pages
SDOCM00083639    BIOS 6: Custom build flow for C64T target does not include two Power related assembly files
SDOCM00083637    BIOS 6: tms570 Hwi_setPriority() doesn't update object's prioritty value, ROV doesn't look right
SDOCM00083635    GateMutex_enter/leave APIs are not documented (similar problem for other gates)

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Upgrading and Compatibility Information

SYS/BIOS 6.x releases have many significant changes from DSP/BIOS 5.x.  It is important to understand the information below in order to successfully use SYS/BIOS 6.x and to migrate applications from DSP/BIOS 5.x.

SYS/BIOS software downloads

SYS/BIOS 6.32

SYS/BIOS 6.31

DA830 ROM

The 'ti.sdo.io' and 'ti.sdo.utils' packages are no longer provided with SYS/BIOS

The ti.sysbios.ipc package and its modules have been deprecated

   
The ti.sysbios.family.arm.m3.Exception module has been deprecated


Placing of sections using MEM configs is no longer supported (ie MEM.TEXTSEG is unsupported)


The ti.sysbios.family.c64p.Cache.initSize configuration item is no longer supported

SYS/BIOS no longer contains all the tools and objects you will need

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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:

ID                              Headline
SDOCM00082528    Linker command file inserted regardless of platform selected for C28 examples
SDOCM00081684    DM8168:  Timer0 interrupts at twice expected frequency
SDOCM00074130    ROV should reference kernel object names versus object addresses
SDOCM00068360    No data displayed in RTA Exec Graph when attaching to running target
SDOCM00064397    RTA crashes CCS 4.1 after a few reset/reload with USB emulator

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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: September 06, 2011 Build Ver: 6.32.04.49 Rev: h49