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TI-RTOS 2.10.01.38 Release Notes

This release note is divided into the following sections:

Introduction, Documentation, Products Included, What's New, Upgrade & Compatibility Information, Host Support, Dependencies, Target and Compiler Support, Validation Info, Known Issues, Examples, Version Information, Technical Support.

Introduction

This is the GA release of TI-RTOS 2.10.01.

The TI-RTOS delivers components that enable engineers to develop applications on Texas Instruments micro-controller devices. The product is comprised of multiple software components and examples of how to use these components together. The TI-RTOS gives developers a one-stop RTOS solution for developing applications for TI embedded microcontrollers. It provides an OS kernel, communications support, drivers, and more. It is tightly integrated with TIs Code Composer Studio development environment. In addition, examples are provided to demonstrate the use of each functional area and each supported device and as a starting point for your own projects. This release note covers all the TI-RTOS products:

Product Kernel (SYS/BIOS) Instrumentation (UIA) Wired Networking (NDK) Wireless Networking
IPC Drivers (refer to the product's Getting Started Guide for more details) *Ware
TI-RTOS for C2000 Included Included Included (M3-only) Included (M3-only) included Included (M3-only) Included (MWare)
TI-RTOS for MSP430 Included Included Not included Included Not included Included Included (MSP430)
TI-RTOS for TivaC Included Included Included Included Not included Included Included (TivaWare)
TI-RTOS for SimpleLink™ Wireless MCUs Included Included Not included Included Not included Included Included (cc3200-driverlib)


Documentation

The following documentation is available:

Release notes from previous releases are also available in the release notes archive directory.

Products Included

The following is a list of all the products bundled into the TI-RTOS installation (with exceptions as noted). 
* XDCtools is installed at the same level at TI-RTOS. If the xdctools_3_30_04_52 version is already present at that location, that version is used.
** refer to <TIRTOS_Install_dir>\products\<*Ware>\TI-RTOS.README for more details

What's New

Please refer to the Getting Started Guide and/or User Guide for more detail about the following new features.

Defects Fixed since 2.01.00

ID Headline
SDOCM00113828 Missing Board.c file in ti/boards/SRF06EB
SDOCM00112876 I2CUSCI driver increments readBufIdx after priming for a next (queued) I2C transfer
SDOCM00107776 GNU target Driver examples do not work when the debugger is disconnected
SDOCM00112997 Users cannot always find TI-RTOS driver examples by board name
SDOCM00107503 I2C USCI and EUSCI callback mode bug when transactions are queued
SDOCM00112306 'I2C_bitRate' type should be 'I2C_BitRate' to comply with our coding conventions.
SDOCM00107295 UART write callback function called twice for a single byte sent
SDOCM00107367 TI-RTOS projects imported to IAR Workbench use the default linker files
SDOCM00107716 links in BIOS release notes are broken (in TI-RTOS shipped BIOS)
SDOCM00113440 TI-RTOS installer segfaults on a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS machine
SDOCM00107296 UARTMon IAR warning in MSP430FR5969
SDOCM00113751 Can't run 'gmake clean' before 'gmake all' in command-line generated examples.



Upgrade and Compatibility Information

When migrating an application that uses TI-RTOS 2.00.01 to TI-RTOS 2.10.01.38, the following steps must be taken:


Host Support

Supported Operating Systems:


Dependencies

This release requires the following other software components and tools versions to successfully function:


Target and Compiler Support

The following table contains the targets available for each product. It also contains the compiler toolchains that were used to build the TI-RTOS binaries.

Product Supported Targets Compiler Toolchains Compiler Versions
TI-RTOS for C2000 ti.targets.arm.elf.M3
ti.targets.C28_float
ti.targets.C28_large
Texas Instruments 5.1.5 (M3)
6.2.5 (C28)
TI-RTOS for MSP430 ti.targets.msp430.elf.MSP430X
iar.targets.msp430.MSP430X_small
Texas Instruments 4.3.1
IAR for MSP430 5.60.1
TI-RTOS for TivaC ti.targets.arm.elf.M4F
iar.targets.arm.M4F
gnu.targets.arm.M4F
Texas Instruments 5.1.5
GCC (in CCS 6) gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_7-2013q3
IAR for ARM 7.20.1
TI-RTOS for SimpleLink™ Wireless MCUs ti.targets.arm.elf.M4
iar.targets.arm.M4
gnu.targets.arm.M4
Texas Instruments 5.1.5
GCC (in CCS 6) gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_7-2013q3
IAR for ARM 7.20.1

Validation Information

This release was validated using the following components:

Known Issues

There are several know issues with this release.

The following use cases are discussed in more detail (and work-arounds) on the following wiki site: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TI-RTOS_Support
ID Headline
SDOCM00099460 ping flood causes Concerto board to stop receiving interrupts
SDOCM00101155 usbmsc_SDOCM00100493 fails regression testing (Intermittent spin lock in USB library's USBHCDPipeRead() for LM4F232)
SDOCM00104253 MSP430 Launchpad ez-FET UART emulation issue at buadrate > 28.8kbps
SDOCM00104686 UART in Stellaris launchpad not working above 9600 baud when used with windows apps that use rxtxSerial.dll driver
SDOCM00105778 MSP430 UART logging to System Analyzer does not work
SDOCM00106264 UART driver doesn't handle RX FIFO overruns.
SDOCM00107260 ROV view for GPIO doesn't work for MSP430
SDOCM00107276 ROV for GPIO exception if opened before Board_initGeneral() is called
SDOCM00107319 makedef's XDCTOOLS_JAVA_HOME default is bad in supplied examples for stand-alone installer
SDOCM00107336 GPIO's ROV module does not work on the TM4C1294 because of a missing entry in the gel file.
SDOCM00107337 BIOS and UIA examples will not link with default MSP430FR5969 linker file.
SDOCM00107366 Grlibdemo on MSP430FR5969LP not working for IAR
SDOCM00107418 UIA examples don't run on Beaglebone
SDOCM00107701 TI-RTOS filters out BIOS' 64T libraries
SDOCM00108264 UIA hello and stairstep examples do not build for some MSP430 devices
SDOCM00108323 TI-RTOS uninstall broke my build environment
SDOCM00112255 TI-RTOS GPIO driver should support configuring pin direction
SDOCM00112969 Need to revive PPP example in TIRTOS
SDOCM00113569 Multi-master support for I2C drivers
SDOCM00113733 ROV for UART with DMA is broken


Examples

There are driver examples for the following boards:
There are kernel and instrumentation examples for all supported devices.Please refer to the Getting Started Guide for more details.

Version Information

All releases have 4 digits (M.mm.pp.bb). This includes GA and pre-releases (engineering, EA, beta, etc.). Pre-releases are denoted with a suffix (e.g. 1.01.00.15_eng or 1.01.00.21-beta).

This product's version follows a version format, M.mm.pp.bb, where M is a single digit Major number, mm is 2 digit minor number, pp is a 2 digit patch number, and b is an unrestricted set of digits used as an incrementing build counter.

To support multiple side-by-side installations of the product, the product version is encoded inEK-TM4C1294XL the top level directory, ex. tirtos_1_00_01_11.

Subsequent releases of patch upgrades will be identified by the patch number, ex. TI-RTOS 1.00.00.68 with directory tirtos_1_00_01_70. Typically, these patches only include critical bug fixes.

Please note that version numbers and compatibility keys are NOT the same. For an explanation of compatibility keys, please refer to the 'Upgrade and Compatibility Information' section.


Technical Support

For technical support, please refer to the Texas Instruments E2E BIOS Support Forum http://e2e.ti.com/support/embedded/tirtos/default.aspx or other forums in http://e2e.ti.com/ as needed.


Last updated: November 14, 2014