diff --git a/Documentation/NuttX.html b/Documentation/NuttX.html index 3b962c3996..760d49e6df 100644 --- a/Documentation/NuttX.html +++ b/Documentation/NuttX.html @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@

NuttX RTOS

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Last Updated: March 22, 2012

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Last Updated: March 24, 2012

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  • Font management sub-system.

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  • + NxWidgets: NXWidgets is library of graphic objects, or "widgets," (labels, buttons, text boxes, images, sliders, progress bars, etc.). NXWidgets is written in C++ and integrates seamlessly with the NuttX NX graphics and font management subsystems. +
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    NxWidgets

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    Last Updated: March 22, 2012

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    Last Updated: March 24, 2012

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  • Many Graphic Objects. Some of the graphic objects supported by NXWidgets include labels, buttons, text boxes, button arrays, check boxes, cycle buttons, images, sliders, scrollable list boxes, progress bars, and more.
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  • DOxygen Documentation + DOxygen documentation is available. +

    • Note: Many of the fundamental classed in NxWidgets derive from the Antony diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index f5dd64ddf0..85c1936b9d 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ o Task/Scheduler (sched/) Title: MISSING ERRNO SETTINGS Description: Several APIs do not set errno. Need to review all APIs. + Update: These are being fixed as they are encountered. There is + no accounting of how many interfaces have this problem. Status: Open Priority: Medium, required for standard compliance (but makes the code bigger) @@ -208,7 +210,45 @@ o pthreads (sched/) being moved to the tail of the scheduling queue at its priority in the event that its original priority is changed." Status: Open - Priority: Low, probably not that useful + Priority: Low -- about zero, probably not that useful. Priority inheritance is + already supported and is a much better solution. And it turns out + that priority protection is just about as complex as priority inheritance. + Exerpted from my post in a Linked-In discussion: + + "I started to implement this HLS/"PCP" semaphore in an RTOS that I + work with (http://www.nuttx.org) and I discovered after doing the + analysis and basic code framework that a complete solution for the + case of a counting semaphore is still quite complex -- essentially + as complex as is priority inheritance. + + "For example, suppose that a thread takes 3 different HLS semaphores + A, B, and C. Suppose that they are prioritized in that order with + A the lowest and C the highest. Suppose the thread takes 5 counts + from A, 3 counts from B, and 2 counts from C. What priority should + it run at? It would have to run at the priority of the highest + priority semaphore C. This means that the RTOS must maintain + internal information of the priority of every semaphore held by + the thread. + + "Now suppose it releases one count on semaphore B. How does the + RTOS know that it still holds 2 counts on B? With some complex + internal data structure. The RTOS would have to maintain internal + information about how many counts from each semaphore are held + by each thread. + + "How does the RTOS know that it should not decrement the priority + from the priority of C? Again, only with internal complexity. It + would have to know the priority of every semaphore held by + every thread. + + "Providing the HLS capability on a simple phread mutex would not + be such quite such a complex job if you allow only one mutex per + thread. However, the more general case seems almost as complex + as priority inheritance. I decided that the implementation does + not have value to me. I only wanted it for its reduced + complexity; in all other ways I believe that it is the inferior + solution. So I discarded a few hours of programming. Not a + big loss from the experience I gained." o C++ Support ^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -231,6 +271,13 @@ o C++ Support Title: STATIC CONSTRUCTORS Description: Need to call static constructors + Update: Static constructors are implemented for the STM32 F4 and + this will provide the model for all solutions. Basically, if + CONFIG_HAVE_CXXINITIALIZE=y is defined in the configuration, then + board-specific code must provide the interface up_cxxinitialize(). + up_cxxinitialize() is called from user_start() to initialize + all static class instances. This TODO item probably has to stay + open because this solution is only available on STM32 F4. Status: Open Priority: Low, depends on toolchain. Call to gcc's built-in static constructor logic will probably have to be performed by @@ -462,7 +509,8 @@ o USB (drivers/usbdev, drivers/usbhost) Title: USB STORAGE DRIVER DELAYS Description: There is a workaround for a bug in drivers/usbdev/usbdev_storage.c. - that involves delays. This needs to be redesigned to eliminate these delays. + that involves delays. This needs to be redesigned to eliminate these + delays. See logic conditioned on CONFIG_USBMSC_RACEWAR. Status: Open Priority: Medium @@ -565,6 +613,7 @@ o File system / Generic drivers (fs/, drivers/) Title: CAN POLL SUPPORT Description: At present, the CAN driver does not support the poll() method. + See drivers/can.c Status: Open Priority: Low @@ -1302,9 +1351,6 @@ o MIPS/PIC32(arch/mips) Status: Open Priority: High - - - o Hitachi/Renesas SH-1 (arch/sh/src/sh1) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^