*** 2.4.0 *** - NEW: Implemented new makefile system for ARM GCC ports, now objects, listings and output files are generated into a "build" directory and not together with sources, also implemented a simplified output log mode. Now makefiles and load script files are requirements and trigger a rebuild if touched. - NEW: Improved Cortex-Mx port, now the Cortex-M4 are Cortex-M4F are also supported. Improved startup files. - NEW: Added a new hook THREAD_CONTEXT_SWITCH_HOOK() that allows to insert code just before a context switch. For example this hook could be used in oder to implement advanced power management schemes. - NEW: Improved Event Flags subsystems in the kernel. - NEW: Added a macro THD_STATE_NAMES to chthreads.h. This macro is an initializer for string arrays containing thread state names. - NEW: Added a new debug option CH_DBG_SYSTEM_STATE_CHECK that ensures the correct API call protocol. If an API is invoked out of the correct context then the kernel panics with a debug message. - NEW: Added the new CMSIS 2.1 headers, now CMSIS resides into a shared location: ./os/ports/common/ARMCMx/CMSIS. Old CMSIS files have been removed from the various platforms. - NEW: Removed all the ch.ld files from the ARMCMx demos, now the makefiles point to common ld files under the various ports. Less duplication and easier maintenance. - NEW: Improved stack checking and reorganized memory map for the Cortex-Mx demos. Now stacks are allocated at the start of the RAM, an overflow of the exception stack now triggers an exception (it could go unnoticed before). The process stack is organized to be checked on context switch like other threads. Now all threads have an explicit stack boundary pointer. - NEW: Now the port layer exports info regarding the compiler and the port options. The info are printed into the test reports. Date and time also added. - NEW: Added initialization of the NVIC VTOR register to all Cortex-Mx (v7M) ports. Also added a port option CORTEX_VTOR_INIT to enforce a different default value into the register. - NEW: Added "IRQ_STORM" test applications to those platforms supporting ISR preemption. - NEW: Added a chprintf() function to ./os/various, it can print on any BaseChannel interface. - NEW: Improved the mini shell, enhanced info command, optimizations and removed the shellPrint() and shellPrintLine() functions, now it uses chprintf() for output. - NEW: USB driver model and USB implementation for STM32F1xx and STM32L1xx. - NEW: USB CDC abstract driver. - NEW: New driver models EXT, GPT, I2C, ICU, RTC, SDC, TM. - NEW: Improved PWM and MAC driver models. - NEW: Added support for STM32L1xx, STM32F2xx and STM32F4xx. - NEW: Updated the STM32F1xx header file to the latest version 3.5.0 and fixed it in order to correct several bugs related to the XL family. - NEW: Added an unified registers file for STM32: stm32.h. This file includes the appropriate vendor files then adds its own additional definitions. - NEW: Added TIM8 support to the STM32 GPT, ICU and PWM drivers. - NEW: DMA sharing in the STM32 HAL. - NEW: ADC specific drivers for STM32L1xx, STM32F2xx and STM32F4xx. - NEW: EXT driver AT91SAM7x and STM32(all). - NEW: PAL driver for AVR. - NEW: GPT driver for LPC11xx, LPC13xx and STM32(all). - NEW: I2C driver for STM32(all). - NEW: ICU driver for STM32(all). - NEW: RTC driver for STM32F1xx. - NEW: SDC driver for STM32F1xx. - NEW: Added handling of USART6 to the STM32 serial driver. - NEW: Added demos for the ST STM32F4-Discovery and STM32L1-Discovery kits. - NEW: Updated AVR demos to use the new PAL driver. - NEW: Now an error is generated at compile time when trying to enable the options CH_DBG_ENABLE_STACK_CHECK on ports that do not support it. - NEW: Added a kernel-only Cortex-Mx demo as reference project for users not interested in the HAL but just want to use the ChibiOS/RT kernel. The demo is named ARMCM3-GENERIC-KERNEL and is defaulted to the STM32, in order to use it on other families or on the ARM Cortex-M0 just change the inclusion paths in the makefile. - NEW: Integrated new FatFs version 0.8b. - NEW: lwIP 1.4.0 has been integrated, this new version does not require custom hooks into the Thread structure and is thus much lighter. - CHANGE: Now the callback associated to input queues is invoked before reading each character. Previously it was invoked only before going to sleep into the THD_STATE_WTQUEUE state. - CHANGE: Removed the option CH_USE_NESTED_LOCK, lwIP no more requires it and it would have conflicted with CH_DBG_SYSTEM_STATE_CHECK which is far more useful. - CHANGE: Renamed the scheduler functions chSchIsRescRequiredExI() to chSchIsPreemptionRequired(), chSchDoRescheduleI() to chSchDoReschedule(), chSysSwitchI() to chSysSwitch(). All those functions were special cases and not regular I-class APIs. - CHANGE: Renamed the macros IDLE_THREAD_STACK_SIZE and INT_REQUIRED_STACK to PORT_IDLE_THREAD_STACK_SIZE and PORT_INT_REQUIRED_STACK for consistency. - CHANGE: Removed the "old" Cortex-M3 port from the code, the current port has no drawbacks and the old port is now just a maintenance cost. - CHANGE: Removed the CH_CURRP_REGISTER_CACHE option, it is GCC-specific so it does not belong to the kernel options. The feature will be eventually reimplemented as a port-specific option. - CHANGE: Renamed the demo ARMCM3-STM32F107-GCC in ARMCM3-STM32F107 and added IAR and Keil projects. - CHANGE: Now the ARMCM3-STM32F107 demo targets the board Olimex STM32-P107 as default. - CHANGE: Removed all the prefixes from the structure/union field names in the HAL subsystem. - CHANGE: Updated the documentation to use Doxygen 1.7.4 which produces a much more readable output. Also modified the documentation layout to put functions and variables ahead of everything else in the group pages. Doxygen version below 1.7.4 cannot be used anymore because differences in templates. Note that now there are two Doxygen projects, one for generating the CHM file the other for plain HTML.
ChibiOS/RT 2.4.1 has been released. This is a maintenance release fixing all known bugs, some new features have been backported from the development version too:
*** 2.4.1 *** - FIX: Fixed inconsistent LPCxxx Internal RC oscillator names (bug 3524138). - FIX: Fixed wrong frequency limit checks vs VDD in STM32F2xx HAL (bug 3524094). - FIX: Fixed STM32 I2C1 wrong alternate TX DMA setting (bug 3524088). - FIX: Fixed three testhal builds fail (bug 3523322). - FIX: Fixed MAC driver functions with invalid name (bug 3522808). - FIX: Fixed code coverage crashes with Linux/gcc-4.4.5 (bug 3522301). - FIX: Fixed macro dmaWaitCompletion() fails to compile in STM32 HAL (bug 3519202). - FIX: Fixed ARM addresses generated in vectors table (bug 3519037). - FIX: Fixed missing serial driver functionality for SAM7S64, SAM7S128 and SAM7S512 (bug 3517648). - FIX: Fixed a few more spelling fixes (bug 3515531). - FIX: Fixed spurious ) char in STM32 serial_lld.h (bug 3514138). - FIX: Fixed problem with FPU initialization in GCC Cortex-M4 port (bug 3513897). - FIX: Spelling fixes (bug 3510812). - FIX: Fixed STM32 ICUD8 not functional because wrong initialization (bug 3508758). - FIX: Fixed chMBFetchI does not decrement mb_fullsem (bug 3504450). - FIX: Fixed STM32 PLLI2S initialization error (bug 3503490). - FIX: Fixed USART3 not working on STM32F2/F4 UART driver (bug 3496981). - FIX: Fixed stack misalignment on Posix-MacOSX (bug 3495487). - FIX: Fixed STM8S HSI clock initialization error (bug 3489727). - FIX: Fixed MMC over SPI driver performs an unnecessary SPI read (bug 3486930). - FIX: Fixed Realtime counter initialization in STM32 HALs (bug 3485500). - FIX: Fixed PPC port broken when CH_DBG_SYSTEM_STATE_CHECK is activated (bug 3485667). - FIX: Fixed missing PLL3 check in STM32F107 HAL (bug 3485278). - FIX: Fixed ADC maximum frequency limit in STM32F2/F4 ADC drivers (bug 3484947). - FIX: Fixed various minor documentation errors (bug 3484942). - NEW: STM32 Ethernet driver completed. Added STM32F107 and STM32F407 lwIP demos. - NEW: lwIP related code is not centralized into a single place, no need to duplicate the code in each application or demo. - NEW: Updated the MSP port to work with the latest MSPGCC compiler (4.6.3 LTS 20120406 unpatched), now the old MSPGCC 3.2.3 is no more supported. - CHANGE: The PORT_INT_REQUIRED_STACK parameter for the Cortex-Mx ports has been increased to 32 from 16 because the stack frame sizes are increased when compiling with optimizations disabled, which is common during debugging. In order to save RAM trim back this value when compiling with optimizations enabled. - CHANGE: Renamed Ethernet driver in AT91 HAL ETHD1.
ChibiOS/RT 2.4.2 has been released. This is a maintenance release fixing all known bugs, mainly in the STM32 and AVR HALs. This update also contains several enhancements back-ported from the development branch:
ChibiOS/RT 2.4.3 has been released. This is a maintenance release fixing all known bugs, mainly in the STM32 HAL. This update also contains several enhancements back-ported from the development branch, see the readme file.
