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Our releases contain links to github PR and lots of text so we are splitting the release notes to individual files This change should - improve readability - reduce the ReleaseNotes file for each release. Signed-off-by: Alin Jerpelea <alin.jerpelea@sony.com>
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NuttX-6.19
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The 86th release of NuttX, Version 6.19, was made on June 15, 2012,
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and is available for download from the SourceForge website. Note
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that release consists of two tarballs: nuttx-6.19.tar.gz and
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apps-6.19.tar.gz. Both may be needed (see the top-level nuttx/README.txt
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file for build information).
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This release corresponds with SVN release number: r4847
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This release features new support for a Network File System (NFS) client.
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This feature allows a tiny, embedded MCU to mount a remote file system
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exported by an NFS server and then to access the file system as it would
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any local file system. Then the tiny MCU can effectively have terabytes
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of storage!
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This might be useful for data collection, for MCU configuration information,
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for software updates, for providing modular, loadable code modes, controlling
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a "farm" of MCUs, ... there are many possibilities and opportunities for
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innovation!
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The NuttShell (NSH) now supports the following command:
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nfsmount <server-address> <mount-point> <remote-path>
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That command will mount the remote NFS server directory <remote-path> at
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<mount-point> on the target machine. <server-address> is the IP address of
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the remote server.
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The NFS development was the graduation project of Jose Pablo Rojas V. who
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is a student at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR, or TEC).
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A lot of effort went into understanding what a tiny, embedded NFS client should
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do and getting the target resource usage to a bare minimum. Only around a
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kilobyte or so of memory is required to run the NFS client (and most of that
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for I/O buffers). Jose Pablo has spent several months living with NFS and
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should be congratulated.
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Additional new features and extended functionality:
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* Drivers: SSD1289 LCD driver, MIO283QT2 LCD driver
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* LM3S: Additional register definition header files (contributed by Max
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Neklyudov).
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* STM32 Boards: The STM32F4Discovery will now support an SSD1289 LCD,
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The STM3220G-EVAL board support is now equivalent to the STM3240G-EVAL
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board support.
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* PIC32 Boards: The Mikroelektronika PIC32MX7 MMB board port is now
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functional, very complete, and stable.
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* Graphics: The NxConsole will now take keyboard input from the NX graphics
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subsystem. This means that if there are multiple NxConsole windows, only
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the top instance that has focus will receive the keyboard input.
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* apps/: Add the capability to use an arbitrary USB device as the console
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(not necessarily /dev/console). Additional enhancements for USB consoles.
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Added the 'mv' command.
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Work in progress. This release includes some partially completed
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work that is still not ready for prime time.
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* Automated Configuration. Automated configuration based on the
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kconfig-frontends tool is being incorporated into the build
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system. The configuration is still not complete enough for
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general use in this release.
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* STM32 Drivers. Added files that will (eventually) hold an STM32
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OTG FS host driver. This is still a work in progress.
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Bugfixes (see the change log for details) :
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* General: sleep() and usleep() return values, sig_timedwait() errno setting
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on timeout.
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* Drivers: STMPE811 touchscreen driver, USB PLC2303, USB CDC/ACM
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* STM32: Several USB device controller driver fixes, F4 interrupt priorities
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(contributed by Mike Smith).
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* Graphics: Keyboard input, fill trapezoid bug
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As well as other, less critical bugs (see the ChangeLog for details)
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