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Goals. Nuttx is a real timed embedded operating system (RTOS). Its goals are:

	Small Footprint
	Usable in all but the tightest micro-controller environments, The focus is on the tiny-to-small, deeply embedded environment.
	Rich Feature OS Set
	The goal is to provide most standard POSIX OS interfaces to support a rich multi-threaded development environment. NON-GOALS: (1) It is not a goal to provide OS subsystems such as network or USB (but these could obviously be added). (2) There is no MMU-based support for processes. At present, NuttX assumes a flat address space.
	Highly Scalable
	Fully scalable from tiny (8-bit) to moderate embedded (32-bit). Scalability with rich feature set is accomplished with: Many tiny source files, link from static libraries, highly configurable, use of weak symbols when available.
	Standards Compliance
	NuttX strives to achieve a high degree of standards compliance. The primary governing standards are POSIX and ANSI standards. Additional standard APIs from Unix and other common RTOS's are adopted for functionality not available under these standards or for functionaly that is not appropriate for the deeply-embedded RTOS (such as fork()). Because of this standards conformance, software developed under other standard OSs (such as Linux) should port easily to NuttX.
	Real-Time
	Fully pre-emptible, fixed priority and round-robin scheduling.
	Totally Open
	Non-restrictive BSD license.

The fourth release of NuttX (nuttx-0.2.1) is avalable for download from the SourceForge website.

	Linux User Mode
	A user-mode port of NuttX to the x86 Linux platform is available. The purpose of this port is primarily to support OS feature developement. STATUS: Does not support interrupts but is otherwise fully functional.
	ARM7TDMI.
	TI TMS320C5471 (also called a C5471 or TMS320DM180). NuttX operates on the ARM7 of this dual core processor. This port uses the Spectrum Digital evaluation board with a GNU arm-elf toolchain*. STATUS: This port is complete, verified, and included in the initial NuttX release.
	ARM9EJS.
	TI TMS320DM320 (also called DM320). NuttX operates on the ARM9 of this dual core processor. This port uses the Neuros OSD with a GNU arm-elf toolchain*. STATUS: This port is code complete but totally untested due to hardware issues with my OSD.
	8052 Microcontroller
	PJRC 87C52 Development Board. This port uses the PJRC 87C52 development system and the SDCC toolchain. STATUS: This port is complete but not stable with timer interrupts enabled. There seems to be some issue when the stack pointer enters into the indirect IRAM address space during interrupt handling.
	Other ports
	There are partial ports for the TI TMS320DM270 and for MIPS.

* A highly modified buildroot is available that be used to build a NuttX-compatible arm-elf toolchain.

C5471 (Arm7) The build for this ARM7 target that includes most of the OS features and a broad range of OS tests. The size of this executable as given by the Linux size command is (3/9/07):

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  53272     428    3568   57268    dfb4 nuttx

87C52 A reduced functionality OS test for the 8052 target requires only about 18-19Kb:

Stack starts at: 0x21 (sp set to 0x20) with 223 bytes available.

Other memory:
   Name             Start    End      Size     Max
   ---------------- -------- -------- -------- --------
   PAGED EXT. RAM                         0      256
   EXTERNAL RAM     0x0100   0x02fd     510     7936
   ROM/EPROM/FLASH  0x2100   0x6e55   19798    24384

NuttX is available under the highly permissive BSD license. Other than some fine print that you agree to respect the copyright you should feel absolutely free to use NuttX in any environment and without any concern for jeopardizing any proprietary software that you may link with it.

0.1.0 2007-03-09  Gregory Nutt 

	* Initial Release
	* Support for Linux user mode simulation and TI
	  TMS320C5471 (Arm7) provided

0.1.1 2007-03-14  Gregory Nutt 

	* Corrected an error in interrupt level context switching
	  for C5471
	* Added fgets() and gets() logic; verified c5471 console read.
	* Corrected error in reading from the C5471 serial port:
          Improper use of semaphore can cause deadlock.
	* Fixed an error in the memory cleanup:  The idle task
	  cannot take sempahores (because it must always be ready
	  to run).
	* Tasks can now accept a configurable maximum number of
	  input parameters (argc)
	* _task_init() was divided into separate functions that
	  require fewer parameters.  This was necessary to keep
	  the stack usage down for the 8051/2 (which has only
	  256 bytes of stack).
	* Attempts to use C5471 console from interrupt handlers
	  can cause errors. Added a special path for this case.
	* Refuse calls to sem_wait and sem_trywait from interrupt
	  handlers.  This was happening because interrupt handlers
	  were calling printf-like functions.
	* Added strtok() and strtok_r()
	* Added a simple shell called nsh (see examples/nsh).
	* Platform support for 8052 is complete but not stable
	  when the timer interrupt is enabled.  Seems to be an
	  issue when SP enters indirect address space.
	* Documentation updates

0.1.2 2007-03-19  Gregory Nutt 

	* Add dirent.h, opendir(), readdir(), closedir(), etc.
	* Add strerror()
	* Added 'ls' command to nsh
	* Added C5471 watchdog driver
	* Fixed another bug where free() is called from IDLE task.
	  Can't do this; the caller must be able to wait for access
	  to memory.
	* Fixed bugs associated with debug output:
          Cannot do dbg() in middle of context switch logic.
	  because it may require use of semaphores and cause
	  additional context switches. lldbg() is safe.
	* Interrupt must be disabled throughout all context switches.
	* Separated C5471 serial driver; a shareable part is
	  in drivers/. ; the C5471 specific part is in arch/C5471.
	  serial.h defines the interface.
	* Fixed mq_receive() and mq_send() -- bad memcpy()
	* Fixed C5471 signal deliver logic: use of dbg() and
          other actions by use signal handler can alter errno.
          need to protect errno during signal handling.
	* Fixed uninitialized variable in filesystem that could
	  cause various problems
	* Added a test for roundrobin scheduler.

0.2.1 2007-03-22  Gregory Nutt 

	* Fix error in handing signed decimal in vsprintf().
	* Major restructuring of header files to get closer to
	  POSIX compliance.
	* Eliminate compilation warnings that that crept into
	  recent check-ins
	* Add kill()
	* Added support for POSIX timers
	* Some Documentation updates
	* Added support for the Neuros OSD / DM320

0.2.2 2007-xx-xx Gregory Nutt 
	* Created the configs/ directory; separated board configuration
	  from processor architecture logic
	* Add memory leak detection test to examples/ostest
	* Corrected memory leak in OS pthread join logic
	* Corrected memory leaks in examples/ostest due to failures
	  to join or detach from pthreads.
	* Added pthread_once(), pthread_kill(), pthread_sigmask()
	* Added pthread_barrierattr_*() APIs
	* Added pthread_barrier_init(), pthread_barrier_destroy(), and
	  pthread_barrier_wait();
	* Added pthread barrier test
	* Added protection so that errno cannot be modified from
	  interrupt handling.
	* sched_setparam(), sched_setscheduler() now correctly set
	  errno; pthread_setscheduler() now returns the correct errno.
	* Added pthread_setschedprio().
	* Started m68322

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