SYS/BIOS 6.33.05.46 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 6.33.05.46 is a GA release of SYS/BIOS 6.33.05.

SYS/ BIOS is a real-time operating system that provides pre-emptive deterministic multithreading. The SYS/BIOS releases introduce a completely new SYS/BIOS kernel and toolset. The SYS/BIOS 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 6.33.05.46.

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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 6.33.05.46 GA Release (this release).

Defects Fixed in SYS/BIOS 6.33.05.46 GA (Fixes since SYS/BIOS 6.33.03.34):
ID                               Headline
SDOCM00092176    Need fix to MSP430 TaskSupport_swap() to support .text placement in high memory
SDOCM00091325    Add and run instrumented and non-instrumented for sanity test cases in regression tests
SDOCM00091516    BIOS 6: Sitara/Netra/Centauras A8 Hwi module Hwi_setPriority() API is broken for priorities above 31.
SDOCM00091479    BIOS6: OMAP5430 DM Timer clock frequencies should be 19.2MHz
SDOCM00091864    new "REMARK" when building A8Fnv on evmDM8148 in regression tests with new 5.0.0B1 cgtools
SDOCM00089984    Run Coverity static code analysis tool and save report to the project page to archive the results
SDOCM00089706    remove @_nodoc from Hwi_plug and Hwi_plugFuncPtr
SDOCM00091729    BIOS6: CLK_cpuCyclesPerHtime() and CLK_cpuCyclesPerLtime() implementations are flawed
SDOCM00091671    C28x shadow IER computation incorrect
SDOCM00090801    update BIOS/C6x code to avoid a few Coverity false-positives
SDOCM00089621    The number of local timers on C6655 & C6657 is different from C6670
SDOCM00088190    Clock module Time Base radio selection quietly changes without sufficient notification to user
SDOCM00092282    Benchmarks, C28L line has ezdsp2812 but it is actually ezdsp28235
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Upgrading and Compatibility Information

SYS/BIOS 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 and to migrate applications from DSP/BIOS 5.x.

SYS/BIOS software downloads

SYS/BIOS 6.33

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
SDOCM00074130    ROV should reference kernel object names versus object addresses
SDOCM00068360    No data displayed in RTA Exec Graph when attaching to running target

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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 18, 2012 Build Ver: 6.33.05.46 Rev: i46