SYS/BIOS 6.76.01.12 GA Release Notes
Introduction
SYS/BIOS 6.76.01.12 is a GA of SYS/BIOS. CCS users must use CCSv8.0.0 or higher.
Please read the SYS/BIOS User’s Guide for help installing and setting up your environment to use SYS/BIOS 6.76.01.12.
Documentation
The following documentation is provided with this release. These documents are also available via the CCS Eclipse help table of contents.
- SYS/BIOS User’s Guide
- SYS/BIOS APIs (cdoc) (Indexed and Searchable within CCS/Eclipse Help)
- Static Analysis Report
License and manifest.
Additional online sources of documentation.
Release notes from previous releases are also available in the release notes archive directory.
What’s New
SYS/BIOS 6.76.01.12 GA Release (this release).
- Miscellaneous bug fixes. See Defects Fixed list for more info.
Defects Fixed in SYS/BIOS 6.76.01.12 (Fixes since SYS/BIOS 6.76.00.08):
| JIRA Issue ID | Summary |
|---|---|
| SYSBIOS-1061 | Update A53F.xdc to AM65X |
| SYSBIOS-1054 | Support Enable Cache Boolean Flag in the HAL |
| SYSBIOS-1052 | C28 Dispatcher alignment issue |
| SYSBIOS-1048 | Benchmark Support for Thumb2 mode on R5F |
| SYSBIOS-1047 | Remove dead code from family.arm.m3.Timer |
| SYSBIOS-999 | Implement Thumb2 mode on R5F for non-safety usecase on AM65x |
| SYSBIOS-965 | Provide SYS/BIOS example projects for CCSv9 |
| SYSBIOS-963 | Need block-based Cache APIs for C7x |
| SYSBIOS-841 | add MPAX APIs for C6x to SYS/BIOS |
| SYSBIOS-839 | Provide MMU support in C7x |
Upgrade and Compatibility Information
SYS/BIOS 6.75
- Binary compatible. Libaries built against SYS/BIOS 6.75.0x .h files can be used with 6.76.0x.
SYS/BIOS 6.73, 6.70, 6.55, 6.53, 6.52, 6.51, 6.50, 6.46 and 6.45
- Source compatible with one exception (Task_setPri()). All APIs are supported but all source files must be recompiled due to some structure/field changes in .h files.
- Task_setPri() return value changed from UInt to Int. The return value was inconsistent with the priority parameter to the function call itself.
- Removed support for the following devices/targets
- MSP430
- C64x+
- C66x big endian (C66x little endian is still supported)
- Cortex-R4 32-bit mode (Cortex-R4 thumb2 mode is still supported)
Migrating GCC Projects Built with SYS/BIOS v6.50 or older to SYS/BIOS v6.52
- Wiki link describing steps to migrate existing Cortex-A GCC projects to SYS/BIOS v6.51
- Wiki link describing steps to migrate existing Cortex-M GCC projects to SYS/BIOS v6.51
Host Support
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7
- Ubuntu 10.04 or newer
- Mac OS X
Dependencies
Minimum Required Software Versions:
- Code Composer Studio v8.3.0 (CCS v9.0 has example issue – see below)
- XDCTools 3.51.00.15 or later
- TI Code Generation Tools
- C28x version 18.12.0 LTS or later
- C6x version 8.2.2 LTS or later
- ARM version 18.12.0 LTS or later
- ARP32 version 1.0.7 or later
- GNU Code Generation Tools (for ARM only)
- ARM gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major or later (Cortex-M devices)
- ARM gcc-linaro-7.2.1-2017.11-x86_64_aarch64-elf or later (Cortex-A devices)
- IAR Code Generation Tools
- ARM version 8.32.2 or later
Required Hardware
- See Device Support Section below.
Device Support
Click here for the list of supported devices.
Validation Information
Click here for the list of compilers used to build and validate this release (scroll down to Supported Targets section).
Known Issues
- This release was not tested for the DM814X devices. There were no changes that should impact DM814X, but the regression tests were not run on this device. We therefore recommend using SYS/BIOS 6.75.0x (or earlier) for DM814X.
- CCDSK-3465 – CCS v9.0 does not include the “Resource Explorer (Classic)” tooling that is used to navigate and find SYS/BIOS examples. CCSv8.3.0 is recommended until this issue is resolved in CCSv9.1 or later.
Benchmarks
For a full description of Benchmarks please see the appendices in the SYS/BIOS 6 User’s Guide.
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 bb 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: May 22, 2019 Build Ver: 6.76.01.12