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NuttX TODO List (Last updated February 13, 2008)
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(7) Task/Scheduler (sched/)
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(1) Dynamic loader (N/A)
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(2) Memory Managment (mm/)
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(1) Signals (sched/, arch/)
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(1) pthreads (sched/)
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(1) C++ Support
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(11) Network (net/, netutils/)
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(2) USB (drivers/usbdev)
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(3) Libraries (lib/)
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(3) File system/Generic drivers (fs/, drivers/)
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(1) Pascal add-on (pcode/)
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(2) Documentation (Documentation/)
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(3) Build system
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(0) Applications & Tests (examples/)
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(1) ARM (arch/arm/)
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(1) ARM/C5471 (arch/arm/src/c5471/)
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(1) ARM/DM320 (arch/arm/src/dm320/)
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(2) ARM/LPC214x (arch/arm/src/lpc214x/)
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(4) pjrc-8052 / MCS51 (arch/pjrc-8051/)
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(6) z80/z8 (arch/z80/)
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(7) z16 (arch/z16/)
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o Task/Scheduler (sched/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: When a tasks exits, shouldn't all of its child pthreads also be
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terminated?
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium, required for good emulation of process/pthread model.
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Description: atexit() supports registration of one function called on exit().
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Should task_delete() also cause atexit() function to be called?
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low, task_delete() is non-standard and its behavior is
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unspecified.
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Description: Implement sys/mman.h and functions
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: Implement sys/wait.h and functions. Consider implementing wait,
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waitpid, waitid. At present, a parent has no information about
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child tasks.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: Implement priority inheritance
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium, this is a good feature for realtime systems.
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Description: Several APIs do not set errno. Need to review all APIs.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium, required for standard compliance (but makes the
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code bigger)
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o Dynamic Loader
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: At some point in the future, I intend to port the XFLAT
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dynamic loader into NuttX (see http://xflat.sourceforge.net/).
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That would allow NuttX to dynamically load and link
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external code in a mounted filesystem.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low, Nice feature and I might do it someday
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o Memory Managment (mm/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: Add an option to free all memory allocated by a task when the
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task exits. This is probably not be worth the overhead for a
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deeply embedded system.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium/Low, a good feature to prevent memory leaks but would
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have negative impact on memory usage and code size.
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Description: Current logic adapts size_t for 16-bit address machines vs.
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32-bit address machines. But a small memory option should also
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be provided so that the small offset option can be used with
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32-bit machines that have small RAM memories (like the lpc2148)
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Status: Open
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Priority: High, a good feature enhancement.
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o Signals (sched/, arch/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: 'Standard' signals and signal actions are not supported.
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(e.g., SIGINT, SIGCHLD, SIGSEGV, etc).
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low, required by standards but not so critical for an
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embedded system.
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o pthreads (sched/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: pthread_cancel(): Should implement cancellation points and
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pthread_testcancel()
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low, probably not that useful
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o C++ Support
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^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: Need to call static constructors
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low, depends on toolchain. Call to gcc's built-in static
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constructor logic will probably have to be performed by
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user logic in user_start().
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o Network (net/, netutils/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: Several of the netutils/ apps are untested. These include
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uIP's netutils/smtp, dhcpd, resolv, webclient. Only minimal
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testing of the others has been performed.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium, Important but not core NuttX functionality
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Description: Should implement SOCK_RAW, SOCK_PACKET
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: uIP polling issues / Multiple network interface support:
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(1) Current logic will not support multiple ethernet drivers.
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Each driver should poll on TCP connections connect on the
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network supported by the driver; UDP polling should respond
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with TX data only if the UDP packet is intended for the
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the network supported by the driver.
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(2) If there were multiple drivers, polling would occur at
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double the rate. Fix by using bound IP address in TCP
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connection (lipaddr) and verifying that it is in the subnet
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served by the driver.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium, The feature is not important, but it is important
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for NuttX to resolve the architectural issues.
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Description: Sendoto() and multiple network interface support:
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When polled, would have to assure that the destination IP
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is on the subnet served by the polling driver.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium, The feature is not important, but it is important
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for NuttX to resolve the architectural issues.
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Description: uIP/Socket callback logic is not thread safe. This means that
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a socket cannot be used concurrently by two threads. Minimal
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fix: Add mutex to support exclusion for protection.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low. The currently socket design cannot be use concurrently
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by threads with out a major redesign. The feature is not
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of great value since the use model for multi-thread sockets
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is not common. Adding mutex support would only mask the
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underlying issue.
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Description: IPv6 support is incomplete
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium
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Description: Incoming UDP broadcast should only be accepted if listening on
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INADDR_ANY(?)
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: Read-ahead buffers capture incoming TCP data when no user
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thread is recv-ing the data. Should add some driver call to
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support throttling; when there is no listener for new data, the
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driver should be throttled. Perhaps the driver should disable
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RX interrupts when throttled and re-anable on each poll time.
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recvfrom would, of course, have to un-throttle.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium
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Description: Need to standardize collection of statistics from network
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drivers. examples/nsh ifconfig command should present
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statistics.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: Outgoing packets are dropped and overwritten by ARP packets
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if the destination IP has not been mapped to a MAC. Could
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improve send() performance by explicitly performing ARP before
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sending the packet.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium
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Description: Port PPP support from http://contiki.cvs.sourceforge.net/contiki/contiki-2.x/backyard/core/net/ppp/
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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o USB (drivers/usbdev)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: Implement USB device support
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Status: Open
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Priority: High
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Description: Implement USB bulk / serial device support
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Status: Open
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Priority: High
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o Libraries (lib/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: sscanf() and lib_vsprintf() do not support floating point
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values.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: The definition of environ in stdlib.h is bogus and will not
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work as it should. This is because the underlying
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representation of the environment is not an arry of pointers.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium
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Description: There are two different copies of getenv(): One in
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sched/env_getenv.c and one in lib/lib_getenv(). Keep one.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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o File system / Generic drivers (fs/, drivers/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: Add chmod(), truncate().
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: FAT32: long file names
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium
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Description: The CAN driver is untested. Add a test for the CAN driver.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium
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o Pascal Add-On (pcode/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: Need APIs to verify execution of P-Code from memory buffer.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: Loader and object format may be too large for some small
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memory systems. Consider ways to reduce memory footprint.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium
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o Documentation (Documentation/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: Document driver/ logic
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: Document C-library APIs
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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o Build system
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^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: Some names under arch are still incorrect. These should be
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processor architecture names: pjrc-8051 should be 805x
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: configs/pjrc-8051 should be configs/pjrc-87c52
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: Dependencies do not work correctly under configs/<board>/src
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(same as arch/<arch>/src/board). Seems to be worse using SDCC.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium (maybe higher for z80 target)
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o Applications & Tests (examples/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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o ARM (arch/arm/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: Add option to use a separate stack for interrupt handling. At
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present, each interrupt executes on top of the user stack
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allocation making each user stack allocation larger than needed.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium
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o ARM/C5471 (arch/arm/src/c5471/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: UART re-configuration is untested and conditionally compiled out.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium. ttyS1 is not configured, but not used; ttyS0 is configured
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by the bootloader
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o ARM/DM320 (arch/arm/src/dm320/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: config/ntos-dm320: It seems that when a lot of debug statements
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are added, the system no longer boots. This is suspected to be
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a stack problem: Making the stack bigger or removing arrays on
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the stack seems to fix the problem (might also be the
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bootloader overwriting memory)
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium
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o ARM/LPC214x (arch/arm/src/lpc214x/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: Finish bringup
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Status: Open
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Priority: High
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Description: Add MMC and USB support
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Status: Open
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Priority: Mediam
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o pjrc-8052 / MCS51 (arch/pjrc-8051/)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: Current status:
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- Basic OS task management seems OK
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- Fails when interrupts enabled. The stack pointer is around
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0x6e before the failure occurs. It looks like some issue
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when the stack pointer moves from the directly to indirectly
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addressable region (0x80 boundary).
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- Work on the 8052 is temporarily on hold
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low, 8051 is a tough platform because of the tiny stack.
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Description: Use timer 0 as system timer. Timer 2 is needed for second UART.
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Logic is implemented, but there needs to be a system
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configuration to change the ticks-per-second value to match the
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timer interrupt rate
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: During build, there are several integer overflows reported:
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sched/gmtime_r.c aroud lines 184 and 185
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sched/clock_initialize.c at line 107
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sched/pthread_create.c at 330
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examples/ostest/barrier.c around lines 53 and 74
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examples/ostest/sighand.c at 225 and 244
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driver/serial.c in usleep calls around 347 and 354
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium
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Description Global data is not being initialized. Logic like that of SDCCs
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crt0*.s needs to be incorporated into the system boot logic
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low -- only because there as so many other issues with 8051
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o z80/z8 (arch/z80)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: The SDCC version the same problems with interger overflow during
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compilation as described for pjrc-8051. At typical cause is code like
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usleep(500*1000) which exceeds the range of a 16-bit integer
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Status: See pjrc-8051
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Priority: See pjrc-8051
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Description: The simulated Z80 serial console (configs/z80sim/src/z80_serial.c +
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driver/serial.c) does not work. This is because there are
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no interrupts in the simulation so there is never any serial
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traffic.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low -- the simulated console is not critical path and the designs
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to solve the problem are complex.
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Description: ZDS-II Librarian complains that the source for the .obj file
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is not in the library.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low, thought to be cosmetic. I think this is a consequence of
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replacing vs. inserting the library.
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Description: The ZDS-II compiler (version 4.10.1) fails with an internal error
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while compiler mm/mm_initialize. This has been reported as
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incident 81509.
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I have found the following workaround that I use to build for the
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time being:
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--- mm/mm_initialize.c.SAVE 2008-02-13 08:06:46.833857700 -0600
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+++ mm/mm_initialize.c 2008-02-13 08:07:26.367608900 -0600
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@@ -94,8 +94,11 @@
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{
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int i;
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+#if 0 /* DO NOT CHECK IN */
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CHECK_ALLOCNODE_SIZE;
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CHECK_FREENODE_SIZE;
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+#endif
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/* Set up global variables */
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Status: Open
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Priority: High
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Description: Add support for prioritized ez8 interrupts. Currently logic supports
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only nominal interrupt priority.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: The z8Encore! port has only been verified on the ZDS-II instruction
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set simulator.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium
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o z16 (arch/z16)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Description: ZDS-II Librarian complains that the source for the .obj file
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is not in the library.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low, thought to be cosmetic. I think this is a consequence of
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replacing vs. inserting the library.
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Description: When the interrupt-driven serial driver is used, the system
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hangs. This is because of TX ready (TRDE) interrupts that
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get lost while interrupts are disabled. The existing
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serial driver appears to be limited to hardware with a
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latching, level-sensitive TX ready interrupt.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium. A polled, write-only serial driver is used in the
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interim for system testing.
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Description: The system delays do not appear to be correct with the
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examples/ostest/timedmqueue.c test.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium-High
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Description: At present, the z16f port does not run properly when CONFIG_DEBUG
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is disabled: The obvious symptom is that there is no printf()
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output. I have isolated with problem to errors in optimization.
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With -reduceopt on the command line, I can get the printf output.
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However, there are still errors in the compiled code -- specifically
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in sched/timer_create.c.
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I have submitted a bug report to ZiLOG for this (support incident
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81400). You can see the status of the bug report (and lots more
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technical detail) here:
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http://support.zilog.com/support/incident/incident_support.asp?iIncidentId=81400&iSiteId=1&chLanguageCode=ENG
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Summary of ZiLOG analysis: "This is a ZNEO compiler problem. ... [a] workaround
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is to replace:
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if ( !timerid || (clockid != 0) )
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By:
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if ((clockid != 0) || !timerid)"
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Status: Open
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Priority: Medium-High
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Description: The pascal add-on does not work with the z16f (that is
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configuration z16f2800100zcog/pashello). This appears to be
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another ZDS-II error: when executing the instruction
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SYSIO 0, WRITESTR a large case statement is executed. This
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involves a call into the ZiLOG runtime library to __uwcase().
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__uwcase is passed a pointer to a structure containing jump
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information. The cause of the failure appears to be that
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the referenced switch data is bad.
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This is submited as ZiLOG support incident 81459.
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Summary of ZiLOG analysis: "This is a ZNEO run time library problem.
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One workaround is to replace the line 58 in uwcase.asm
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From:
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ADD R9,#4 ; Skip handler
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To:
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ADD R9,#2 ; Skip handler
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And add uwcase.asm to the project.
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If the customer does not want to modify uwcase.asm then the other
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workaround is to add a dummy case and make it same as default:
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case 0x8000:
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default:
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This will make sure that uwcase is not called but ulcase is called."
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Status: Open. Due to licensing issues, I cannot include the modified
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uwcase in the NuttX code base.
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Priority: Medium
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Description: Add support to maintain SPOV in context switching. This
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improvement will provide protection against stack overflow
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and make a safer system solution.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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Description: Add support for prioritized interrupts. Currently logic supports
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only nominal interrupt priority.
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Status: Open
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Priority: Low
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