2.8. Release Notes - 08_00_03

2.8.1. Introduction

This release notes provides important information that will assist you in using the PDK software package for the J721S2 family of devices.
This document provides the product information and known issues that are specific to the PDK software package.

2.8.2. What’s New

  • This is the early adopter release for J721S2.
    This package contains drivers required for J721S2 platform only.

  • PDK modules validated on J721S2 EVM:

Module

A72

R5F

C7x

FreeRTOS/OSAL

NA

YES

YES

SCICLIENT

YES

YES

YES

UART

YES

YES

YES

UDMA

YES

YES

YES

IPC

YES

YES

YES

OSPI

NO

YES

NA

MCSPI

NA

YES

NA

MMCSD

YES

YES

NA

VHWA

NA

YES

NA

CSIRX

NA

YES

NA

CSITX

NA

YES

NA

GPIO

YES

YES

NA

CRC(CSL)

YES

NA

NA

VTM(CSL)

NA

YES

NA

SPINLCOK(CSL)

YES

YES

NA

ESM(CSL)

NA

YES

NA

DMTIMER(CSL)

NA

YES

NA

DCC(CSL)

NA

YES

NA

UART(CSL)

YES

YES

NA

MCAN(CSL)

NA

YES

NA

VIM(CSL)

NA

YES

NA

ECC(CSL)

NA

YES

NA
  • SBL Boot Modes:

    • UART, MMC, OSPI

    • Internal Memory, DDR

    • DMA mode, non-DMA mode

  • Board Diagnostic

    • DDR

    • Board ID EEPROM

    • Boot EEPROM

    • UART

    • SD card

    • eMMC

    • OSPI NOR Flash

    • QSPI Flash

    • Current Monitor

    • Temperature sensor

    • On board RTC

    • User LED

    • Automation Header

  • Uniflash

    • OSPI NOR Flash

    • OSPI NAND Flash

2.8.3. Device Support

  • J721S2 EVM (BOARD=j721s2_evm)

2.8.4. CCS Setup

2.8.5. Validation Information

This release is validated on J721S2 EVM for the applicable components.

Refer :FAQ - Supported Cores by example applications for list of validated application

2.8.6. Tool Chain Information

Component

Version

FreeRTOS Kernel

10.4.3

lwIP stack

2.1.2

lwIP-contrib

2.1.0

XDC Tools

3_61_04_40

TI ARM CLANG

1.3.0.LTS

TI C7x code generation tools

2.0.1.STS

GCC ARM code generation tools

ARCH64 9.2-2019.12

2.8.7. Known Issues

Key

Summary

Module

Reported in Release

Affected Platforms

Workaround in this release

DK-10850

Scicleint_rmRingCfg API is not programming BCDMA Ring Cfg Register

SCICLIENT

PROCESSOR-SDK_08.00.03

J7AEP

WA added in UDMA Driver to program the same

PDK-10849

Sciclient_rmIrqSet is not programming Interrupt Aggregator Unmapped Event Mapping Register for BCDMA events

SCICLIENT

PROCESSOR-SDK_08.00.03

J7AEP

WA added in UDMA Driver to program the same

PDK-10847

UART DMA UT is hanging on mcu1_0/mcu1_1

UART

PROCESSOR-SDK_08.00.03

J7AEP

Use Non-DMA mode

PDK-10829

Sciclient UT in Interrupt mode is hanging on C7x cores

SCICLIENT

PROCESSOR-SDK_08.00.03

J7AEP

Use polling mode

PDK-10827

McSPI DMA UT is not functional

SPI

PROCESSOR-SDK_08.00.03

J7AEP

Individual tests works fine

2.8.8. Limitations

  • DSS is not yet up.

  • VISS-> MSC Flexconnect is not yet up.