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* NEWS: * ecos.db: Add ADC device driver for EA2468 OEM board which uses a new generic LPC24xx ADC driver.
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date Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:22:46 +0000
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1 * ADC device driver for EA2468 OEM board
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2 * ADC device driver for LP24XXX devices.
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07fc475e1c28 Add Cortex-M architecture HAL, STM32 variant and STM3210E platform HALs.
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3 * Cortex-M Architecture HAL contributed by eCosCentric Ltd.
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4 * STM32 Variant HAL, STM3210E platform HAL, serial device driver,
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5 on-chip flash driver contributed by eCosCentric Ltd.
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6 * Synthetic target framebuffer device driver contributed by
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7 eCosCentric Ltd
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8 * Generic framebuffer support contributed by eCosCentric Ltd.
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62ca80ce06e5 * NEWS:
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9 * PATI PC/104+ board from MPL elektronik by Steven Clugston
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6d90bf0db6a5 * NEWS:
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10 * Ethernet driver for LPC2xxx by Uwe Kindler.
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11 * Ethernet phy driver for Mircrel KSZ8001 by Uwe Kindler.
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be7755f32fd0 Add Generic ADC support. See Changelogs for details.
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12 * Generic ADC support contributed by eCosCentric Ltd.
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cac2b9a9e6e6 * NEWS:
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13 * drivers for LPC2xxx on-chip flash, RTC, I2C and SPI from Hans Rosenfeld.
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7b16b2d61ef3 * NEWS:
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14 * Port to Embedded Artists LPC2468 OEM board by Uwe Kindler.
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08e070d1d660 * NEWS:
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15 * USB serial class driver by Frank Pagliughi.
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16 * FR30 arch, mb91301 variant and skmb91302 platform by Lars Poeschel.
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233830bb4925 * NEWS:
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17 * phyCORE-LPC2294/92 port including flash and CAN by Uwe Kindler.
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243f35d34c4b * ecos.db CAN driver for AT91.
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18 * AT91 CAN driver by Uwe Kindler.
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71c351c1db84 * ecos.db: Ethernet device driver for AT91 EMAC.
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19 * AT91 Ethernet device driver for EMAC by John Eigelaar and Andrew Lunn.
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67647617a206 Add MMC/SPI package contribution from eCosCentric
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20 * MMC/SPI driver provided by eCosCentric Ltd.
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4156dbc7c8ca * ecos.db: Add Philips D12 USB device driver and hardware specific
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21 * USB device driver for Philips D12.
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60a553e4f050 * ecos.db: Add AT91SAM7SEK and AT91SAM7XEK packages and targets
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22 * Port to ATMEL AT91SAM7X by John Eigelaar
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aacaba4e9e6d * ecos.db: Add Freescale MAC7100 variant, SIvA MACE1 platform
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23 * Freescale MAC7100 varient and SIva MACE1 platfrom by Ilija Koco.
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a62600d0e7b5 Import of the new ColdFire architecture HAL and M52272C port, with
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24 * Coldfire architecture HAL, the mcf5272 varient HAL and the m5272c3
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25 platform HAL. Contributed by Enrico Piria.
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286c27164b98 Add the AT91 USB device driver.
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26 * AT91 USB device driver by Oliver Munz and Andrew Lunn
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3b32d18684cf Add at91sam7s
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27 * Port to the ATMEL AT91SAM7S by Oliver Munz and Andrew Lunn
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28 * Improved varient support for the AT91
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e256aea3e373 * First import of an ethernet device driver for the NETARM
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29 * Support for the Ethenet device on the NETARM devices.
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ae4d51806ab7 Added support for the AT91 based PhyCore
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30 * Added support for the AT91 based PhyCore.
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c8c3d20dc86d * Added support for Exys XSEngine (PXA255) based system.
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31 * Added support for Exys XSEngine (PXA255) based system.
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7fd45d2a9dce * Port of ezXML parser added.
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32 * Port of ezXML parser added.
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09b23f8491d4 Add LPC-MT platform HAL
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33 * Port to the Keil MCB2100, Olimex P2106 and Olimex LPC-MT by Jani Monoses
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34 * Generic support for the lpc2xxx, hal, serial and watchdog by Jani Monoses
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728b82c53914 Support for generic IDE using PIO.
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35 * Support for generic IDE disks using PIO, by Iztok Zupet.
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f73c51496d30 * ecos.db: Added Atmel AT91 SPI bus driver and AT91EB55 devices.
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36 * Support for SPI on the eb55 by Savin Zlobec.
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4cdfabb5f944 * ecos.db: Added atmel jtst board support, based on atmel Diopsis
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37 * Added support for the Atmel JTST board by Andrea Michelotti.
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38 * Added support for the AIM711 contributed by Roland Cassebohm.
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40c53c83bbc4 Update ecos.db and NEWS to reflect lwIP addition.Add lwip_eth and lwip_ppp templates
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39 * Added the lwIP TCP/IP stack.
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40 * Added PPP network support. Contributed by Nick Garnett of eCosCentric.
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1ea738d9701c * ecos.db: Added the LANCEPCI packages and support for the vmWare
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41 * Added support for network under vmWare using the LANCE chipset. Contributed
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42 by Iztok Zupet.
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f2453fae08d4 Added support for FAT filesystem. Several packages, see the individual
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43 * Added support for FAT12/16 filesystems. Contributed by
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44 Savin Zlobec of Elatec Engineering.
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89b7f83984cc * Support for Spanning Tree Protocol in the old OpenBSD stack
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45 * Support for Spanning Tree Protocol in the old OpenBSD stack
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4f98ee8c6707 Add support for GPS-4020 (ARM7) platform
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46 * Add support for GPS-4020 (embedded ARM7 GPS receiver/controller)
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fd9beb3b37c0 Added the libipsec package.
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47 * Basic IPSEC and libipsec support.
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e1737b465766 * ecos.db: Replaced the 39VF4XX flash driver with a 39VFXXX driver.
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48 * Flash driver for SST 39VFXXX devices
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2e396c276990 * ecos.db: New package - Synth wall clock device
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49 * Wall clock driver for Synthetic target.
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50 * New port to TAMS MOAB (PowerPC 405GPr) development board
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51 * FLASH layer can now support NAND devices
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52 * RedBoot 'fconfig' data can now be stored in either FLASH or EEPROM
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53 * VNC server (remote access graphic system), contributed by
f30dbfbd254c VNC server package from Chris Garry
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54 Chris Garry <cgarry@sweeneydesign.co.uk>
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55 * New port to Analogue & Micro Rattler (Motorola MPC8250)
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56 * Improved support for ethernet PHY devices.
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57 * Improved variant support for Motorola Power-QUICC2 systems.
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58 * Vastly improved networking speeds in RedBoot stack.
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59 * New port for Motorola PrPMC1100 (Intel XScale IXC1100)
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60 * SNTP client supports IPv6 multicast packets from time servers.
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91a0d5882aa2 * DNS client support looking up IPv6 addresses and reverse lookups
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61 * DNS client support looking up IPv6 addresses and reverse lookups
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62 * FTP client is IPv6 aware.
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63 * httpd daemon is IPv6 aware.
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d9b26cfc0657 * TFTP client and TFTP server now work with both IPv4 and IPv6.
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64 * TFTP client and TFTP server now work with both IPv4 and IPv6.
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65 * New port for Analogue & Micro Adder-II (PPC 852T) boards
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66 * New ports for Intel XScale IXP425 boards (IXDP425 and Generic Residential
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67 Gateway).
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68 * Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) client contributed by Andrew Lunn.
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69 * Added port for NMI uE250 (ARM Xscale PXA250) platform, contributed
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70 by Mind, NV.
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72 *********** eCos 2.0 release ************
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74 * SNMP code now works with the FreeBSD stack
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c54eb3732b41 Add IDT MIPS IDT79RC32334 reference platform port,
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75 * Port added for IDT MIPS IDT79RC32334 reference platform, including Flash,
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76 ethernet, and serial drivers as well as RedBoot support. Contributed by
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77 Tim Michals working for IDT.
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78 * Port added for Texas Instruments ARM9 OMAP Innovator board. Contributed by
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79 Patrick Doyle of Delphi Communication Systems.
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80 * Add XScale PXA2x0 support, with Microplex Printer control 5.0 (mpc50)
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81 target incorporating flash support.
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82 * Add support for Cogent CSB281 - PowerPC 8245 board.
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83 * Add support for PowerPC 8260 based systems - one from Motorola (VADS)
aae52574f8c5 Add support for PowerPC/8260 based platforms. Contributed by Patrick Doyle <wpd@delcomsys.com>
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84 and another from Delphi Communications. Contributed by Delphi.
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85 * Add support for Analogue & Micro Adder (PowerPC 850) boards
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86 * Update MN10300 ASB2303 HAL to support RedBoot
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87 * New package for application level profiling (histogram only)
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88 * Support for NPWR Linux Engine (Xscale IOP310) from Team ASA
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0f9e057c8163 Mostly cosmetic cleanups. TS1000 FLASH package renamed. Remove some old cruft in Viper & TS1000 ports.
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89 * Support for Allied Telesyn TS1000 (PowerPC 855T based design)
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542103a53d53 Add new Hitachi H8/300H package contribution from Yoshinori Sato
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90 * Yoshinori Sato has contributed a watchdog driver for the Hitachi H8/300H.
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91 * Add AT91 watchdog driver. Contributed by Thomas Koeller of Basler Vision
2f403b92a5ac Add contributed at91 watchdog from Thomas Koeller
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92 Technologies.
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93 * SMP support added for x86.
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94 * Ported new networking stack from FreeBSD to eCos. Includes IPv6 support.
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95 * Added generic power management support, plus platform support for the iPAQ.
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96 * Ported Microwindows windowing graphics system. This port is still alpha.
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97 * Added hooks in common ethernet driver for lwIP lightweight IP stack.
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98 * Added RedBoot only ports to Samsung Calmrisc16 and Calmrisc32 architectures.
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99 Includes board ports to Calm16 Core and Calm32 Core eval boards.
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100 * Added Samsung ARM KS32c5000 SNDS100 eval board port including RedBoot and
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101 ethernet support. Contributed by Grant Edwards of Comtrol.
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102 * eCos+RedBoot port to the Altera ARM9 Excalibur board. Includes FLASH driver.
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103 * eCos+RedBoot port to Hitachi SH3-based HS7729PCI board, with SH 7729 CPU.
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104 Includes FLASH, ethernet, watchdog and wallclock drivers. The ethernet
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105 driver includes generic support for the VIA Rhine chipset.
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106 * eCos+RedBoot port to Hitachi SH3-based Solution Engine SE77x9 board.
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107 Includes FLASH, ethernet, serial and watchdog drivers.
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108 * eCos+RedBoot port to Hitachi SH4-based Solution Engine SE7751 board.
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109 Includes FLASH, ethernet, serial and watchdog drivers.
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110 * Support for the SH2 core, and SH2 on-chip etherc added.
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111 * Port to Matsushita AM33-2 based ASB2305 board added, including serial,
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112 ethernet and FLASH support.
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113 * Ethernet, serial and USB drivers for NEC MIPS uPD985xx chip family added.
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114 * RedBoot-only port to MIPS Malta evaluation board (Mips32 4Kc and Mips64 5Kc
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115 cores) added, including FLASH and ethernet support.
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116 * Port to NEC MIPS VRC4375-based 'Blue Nile' evaluation board. Includes
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117 FLASH, serial and ethernet drivers (the latter being new support for the
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118 i21143 chipset).
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119 * Ethernet driver for Intel i82544 Gigabit ethernet added.
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120 * Support for Samsung ARM KS32C5000 on-core ethernet broken out into "generic"
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121 driver.
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122 * New architectural port to Fujitsu FR-V added. Initial board port to FR-V 400
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123 development board, including RedBoot support and ethernet and FLASH drivers.
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124 Currently pre-alpha quality only.
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125 * Support added to port remote file operations using the remote protocol for
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126 newlib applications run under RedBoot.
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127 * eCos+RedBoot port to Intel XScale IQ80321 port added, including FLASH,
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128 ethernet, and serial drivers.
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129 * ARM Integrator port rewritten. Now includes ARM9 support.
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130 * RedBoot+eCos port to the Agilent ARM9-based AAED2000 evaluation board.
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131 Includes FLASH, ethernet, keyboard and touchscreen drivers.
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132 * eCos relicensed to be under a GPL+exception licence, instead of the RHEPL.
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133 * All eCos documentation now available in DocBook format, licensed under the
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134 OPL.
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135 * CYGPKG_IO_ETH_DRIVERS now puts its headers in install/include/cyg/io/eth
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139 boards that have old-style GDB stubs without VV support.
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140 * Added ELF and wider decompression support to RedBoot.
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141 * Added support for SuperH SH2 CPUs
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142 * Added port for Motorola MCF5272c3 ColdFire evaulation board from
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143 Wade Jensen <Wade_Jensen@inter-tel.com>.
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144 * Added ports to Wuerz Elektronik and Axiom Manufacturing MPC555 based eval
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146 from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Includes FLASH, serial and wallclock
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147 drivers.
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148 * Added H8/300 port contributed by Yoshinori Sato <qzb04471@nifty.ne.jp>
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149 Initially for Akizuki H8/3068 board with ethernet and serial driver support,
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150 and H8/300H simulator.
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151 * Added RedBoot support for remote file I/O operations using the GDB remote
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152 protocol.
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153 * Added SPARC_LEON port contributed by Jiri Gaisler <jiri@gaisler.com> -
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155 and Leon project per se.
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156 * Added port to CerfCube and CerfPDA, contributed by the manufacturer,
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157 Intrinsyc. Includes ethernet drivers.
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158 * Added alpha of JFFS2 journalling flash file system v2 support.
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159 * Add synthetic target synthetic flash driver, contributed by Andrew Lunn.
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160 * CqREEK SH7750 FLASH driver added, contributed by Koichi Nagashima
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161 * EDB7xxx ethernet driver rewritten to be a generic Cirrus Logic CS8900A
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162 package.
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163 * Incorporated FTP client code (library and test) from Andrew Lunn.
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164 * Incorporated ARM Development board aka INTEGRATOR port from Philippe Robin
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165 at ARM. Includes FLASH, ethernet and serial drivers, along with RedBoot
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166 support.
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167 * Added ARM E7T (AEB-2) serial device drivers contributed by
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168 Lars Lindqvist at Combitech <Lars.Lindqvist@combitechsystems.com>
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169 * Flash driver added for the SH EDK7708 platform.
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170 * Added rudimentary ELF loader, including support for dynamic objects under
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171 services/loader.
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172 * DNS lookup support added. Contributed by Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch>
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173 * Cogent [Cirrus Logic] EDB7312 platform added.
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174 * Dallas wallclock driver implemented for x86 PC.
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175 * AMD PCNet ethernet driver added.
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176 * Generic SMP support added.
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177 * RedBoot support added to AM33-STB port.
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178 * Add Atmel AT91/EB40 port, including flash and serial drivers.
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179 * Added HAL port to SEGA Dreamcast.
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180 Contributed by Takeshi Yaegashi <t@keshi.org>
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181 * Added port to Bright Star Engineering SA11x0 based Flexanet handheld board,
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182 including flash and ethernet support.
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183 Contributed by Jordi Colomer <jco@ict.es>
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184 * Added support for loading files from disk. Currently supports IDE drives
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185 with Linux EXT2 filesystems.
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186 * Added wallclock driver for DS12887
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187 * AM33 STB flash driver added.
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188 * C library now supports multiple locales with multibyte character set support,
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189 and the possibility of plugging in more. Current locales supported
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190 are now C, C-SJIS, C-EUCJP and C-JIS.
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191 * Major reorganization of x86 HAL. Support for RedBoot and PCI added, based on
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192 Fabrice Gautier's patches. i82559 ethernet driver added (Intel Etherexpress).
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193 Synthetic HAL redesigned and moved to separate hal/synth hierarchy.
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194 * Added ethernet drivers for SMSC lan91cxx
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195 * Added driver for Motorola PowerPC 8xxT "Fast Ethernet Controller".
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196 * Added support for Analogue & Micro "viper" - PowerPC 860T based
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197 board. Currently this is only alpha since full test farm testing
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198 has not yet been started. Includes RedBoot, Flash and FEC ethernet.
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199 * RedBoot and eCos ported to Bright Star Engineering nanoEngine
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200 StrongARM SA1110 board, including Flash, watchdog, serial, ethernet
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201 drivers and PCI support.
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202 * Added support for ARM Evaluator7T (e7t) board.
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203 * Ported to Compaq StrongARM SA1110 PocketPC (iPAQ), including keypad,
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204 touch screen, watchdog, FLASH, PCMCIA and Compact Flash drivers.
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205 Also includes RedBoot, with support for booting ARM Linux.
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206 Derived from an initial port by Richard Panton of 3G Lab.
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207 http://www.3glab.org/
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208 * Added flash verification checksums to RedBoot.
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209 * Added watchdog driver for Intel SA11x0 StrongARM.
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210 * Added generic Intel FlashFile 28Fxxx flash driver.
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211 * Added generic Intel StrataFLASH driver.
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212 * Support flash and ROMRAM startup for V850 HAL and Cosmo CEB board; also
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213 adding support for the NEC V850/SB1 CPU variant. Also support for
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214 thread debugging via ICE and gdbserv.
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215 * Added support for MIPS32/64 MIPS variants and Atlas platform, using both
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216 the MIPS32 4Kc and MIPS64 5Kc processor modules. Includes PCI, serial,
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217 ethernet and flash drivers. This is a RedBoot-only port at this time, not
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218 full eCos.
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219 * Added simple ROM based file system support, contributed by
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220 Richard Panton of 3G Lab.
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221 * Added support for MIPS PMC-Sierra RM7000 variant and Ocelot board, including
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222 PCI, ethernet and FLASH support.
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223 * Added gzip/zlib decompression support to RedBoot.
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224 * Added zlib decompression library.
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225 * GDB stubs no longer reboot the board in response to a 'k' packet. Instead
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226 from within GDB a "maintenance packet r" must be sent, followed by a
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227 "detach". Then you can reconnect to the board.a
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228 * Added generic AMD AM29xxxxx flash driver based on MBX driver, and make
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229 the MBX use it.
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230 * Added RedBoot support to PID target.
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231 * Added Atmel AT29C040 flash driver.
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232 * Added Intel XScale support with the IQ80310 Software Development and
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233 Processor Evaluation Kit. Support includes flash and ethernet drivers,
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234 and RedBoot support.
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235 * Added support for USB slave devices. This includes generic USB slave
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236 support, a device driver for the SA11x0 on-chip USB device, and an
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237 additional support package for developing USB-ethernet and similar
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238 peripherals.
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239 * Added POSIX cancellation points for the sigwait family of functions,
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240 pthread_join, pthread_cond_wait, pthread_cond_timedwait, sleep and
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241 nanosleep
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242 * Virtual vectors initialization can now be configured with a finer
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243 granularity. Diagnostic output should also appear on the same channel
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244 (possibly ethernet) as the application was launched from.
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245 * Added cyg_pci_find_matching() to PCI library API to allow more generalized
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246 matching on device properties.
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247 * ARM EBSA285 now configured to use virtual vectors all the time. Users with
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248 old GDB stub ROM images should upgrade to newer GDB stub ROM images, or
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249 better still to RedBoot.
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250 * Stack usage measurement has been added, with the functions
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251 pthread_measure_stack_usage() in the POSIX thread API and
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252 cyg_thread_measure_stack_usage() in the kernel C API.
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253 * Thread stack checking support added. See CYGFUN_KERNEL_THREADS_STACK_CHECKING
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254 in the kernel CDL for information.
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255 * Add syscall support to RedBoot for compatibility with newlib-based BSPs
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256 * Bridge support added to the PCI library. Use cyg_pci_configure_bus() to
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257 configure all busses.
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258 * Added a port to the Toshiba MIPS TX49 chip, with the REF4955 reference
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259 platform. This includes serial device driver and wallclock device driver
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260 support.
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261 * PowerPC 40x variant support added.
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262 * Added SH4 support. Split SH architecture HAL into variants in the process.
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264 * Port to Intel SA1100 Multimedia evalulation board added, including serial
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265 device driver, FLASH driver and RedBoot support
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269 * SH serial driver cleanup. SCIF driver added. SCI and SCIF drivers are
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271 DMA for transmit operations.
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273 between multiple implementations, e.g. BSD TCP/IP and Red Boot's TCP/IP
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274 stacks.
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275 * RedBoot - the Red Hat Bootstrap ROM monitor has been added, initially
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276 supporting ARM-EDB7xxx, ARM-EBSA285, and ARM-Assabet boards. Provides
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277 serial and ethernet GDB debugging support, flash image management and flash
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278 booting, BOOTP/DHCP and TFTP boot support and a CLI interface.
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279 * Added PCMCIA and Compact Flash support, including drivers for the ARM-Assabet
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280 board.
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281 * Added generic FLASH memory support
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282 * Added flash memory support for ARM-EBSA285 and ARM-EDB7xxx boards
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283 * Added Compact Flash Ethernet driver
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284 * Hitachi SH7707a variant support added.
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285 * Support added for both software and hardware flow control with an initial
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286 version of the latter available only for the ARM PID board at present.
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287 * Loopback serial device driver added
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288 * POSIX termios support added for EL/IX level 1 compatibility
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289 * Improved dynamic memory management support in the memory allocator
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290 package. Existing dynamic memory support in the kernel (fixed and variable
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291 block allocators) and in libc (malloc, etc.) has been moved to this
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292 package, located at services/memalloc/common. It is now possible to support
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293 memory pools occupying all of remaining memory (as determined by the MLT).
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294 New memory allocators can be "plugged in", and an example of Doug Lea's
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295 malloc (dlmalloc) has been included.
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296 * Plug-in filesystem support added, with a POSIX 1003.1 compatible API, found
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297 in the io/fileio package, and integrated with the C library.
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300 right and an example of how to write a filesystem that plugs into the
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301 fileio infrastructure.
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303 intended to be largely self documenting. The General Description at
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304 the beginning of the file gives an overview of the structure of the
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305 system, and comments within the code explain specific points. This
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306 code should be read in conjunction with the description of the fileio
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307 infrastructure.
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308 * Support added for POSIX 1003.1 threads, mutexes, semaphores, message queues,
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309 condition variables, clocks, timers and real-time signals in the POSIX
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310 compatibility package (part of the EL/IX compatibility initiative) found at
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311 compat/posix.
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313 called back at the point a thread is scheduled.
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314 * Added (configurably) priority ceilings for kernel mutexes
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315 * Support sorted thread queues in kernel, rather than LIFO, controlled by the
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316 CYGIMP_KERNEL_SCHED_SORTED_QUEUES option.
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317 * The Kernel C API functions cyg_semaphore_wait() and cyg_cond_wait() now
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318 return booleans to indicate if the wait failed.
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319 * Added enhanced form of kernel message queue which is more flexible at runtime
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320 than mboxes - available in <cyg/kernel/mqueue.hxx>
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321 * Add a generic interface in <cyg/hal/hal_tables.h> to allow tables of
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322 data, particularly initialization data, to be included in an application
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323 image. This replaces the previous __DEVTAB__ and __NETDEVTAB__ references
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324 in linker scripts.
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325 * Most standard top-level header files now controlled by the "isoinfra"
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326 package
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327 * C library package split into separate packages on functional boundaries:
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328 i18n, setjmp, signals, startup, stdio, stdlib, time
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329 * Most targets now implement a standard form of "virtual vectors" - a
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330 mechanism to allow enhanced co-operation between ROM monitors and running
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331 applications. This allows the application to leave to the ROM things that
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332 the ROM supports rather than duplicating, including debug channels that may
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333 be via serial or ethernet. To take advantage of this, new GDB stub
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334 images/CygMon images should be programmed onto boards, although old images
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336 * DHCP support has been added to the TCP/IP support, in addition to the
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337 existing BOOTP support
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338 * CDL now supports type bool and booldata for interfaces
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339 * CDL now exports extra macros in header files, to indicate package version
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340 numbers
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341 * A port of the University of California at Davis (UCD) SNMP stack has been
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342 added
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343 * Hitachi SH7709A variant support added
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344 * NEC V85x architecture support added
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345 * NEC Cosmo CEB-V850/SA1 evaluation board platform HAL added
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346 * Serial device drivers added for systems based on NEC V850 SA1 (70F3017)
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347 or SB1 (70F3033) processors
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348 * Hitachi SH3 CqREEK (cq7708) platform HAL support added
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349 Contributed by Haruki Kashiwaya
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350 * Watchdog reworked much like wallclock.
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351 Common code and API in io/watchdog, simpler (smaller) low-level drivers in
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352 devs/watchdog/<arch>.
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353 * IO serial driver
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354 The common serial driver has been extended with a configurable option for
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355 a non-blocking read/write mode. It has also been given some new callbacks
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356 which allow low-level drivers to transfer data in blocks instead of as
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357 single characters.
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358 * SH HAL
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359 Now provides ROMRAM startup type, copying code and data to RAM before
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360 executing, improving performance at cost of memory.
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361 * IO serial drivers reworked by separating into distinct platform
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362 packages, making it simpler to implement new drivers.
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363 * WallClock reworked, making it simpler to implement new drivers.
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364 New drivers
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365 o SH3 RTC module
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367 -------- eCos 1.3.1 public net release:
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369 * New architectures and variants
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370 o ARM Thumb
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371 o ARM9
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372 o Hitachi SH3
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373 o Cirrus Logic CL-PS7111, EP72xx
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374 o Intel StrongARM
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375 o Matsushita AM33
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376 o NEC MIPS VR4300
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378 * New platforms
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379 o ARM AEB-1 rev C
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380 o ARM PID support extended: ARM9, Thumb and big-endian
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381 o Cirrus Logic EDB7xxx
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382 o Cogent CMA222 and CMA230 ARM boards. (CMA222 contributed by Mark Salter)
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383 o Hitachi EDK7708
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384 o Intel x86 PC (base port contributed by Patrick O'Grady)
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385 o Intel EBSA285
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386 o Matsushita STB
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387 o Motorola MBX evaluation board
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388 o NEC VRC4373
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390 * New hosts
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391 o Windows 2000 host support (beta)
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392 o Red Hat Linux 6.x (should work on other distributions, but only
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395 * Configuration system revised
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396 o Tools based on GPL'd configuration library (only tested on
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397 Windows and Red Hat Linux 6.x)
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398 o Tools available for both Windows (graphical) and Linux (CLI).
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399 o Target side configuration much more flexible now, even though
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400 existing configuration data has not yet been changed to take full
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401 advantage of the new features.
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403 * TCP/IP stack and drivers [distributed in separate package]
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404 o OpenBSD based, supporting UDP, TCP and ICMP.
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405 o Motorola MBX (quicc) driver.
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406 o Cirrus Logic EDB7xxx driver.
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408 * PCI bus library
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409 o Simple API for configuring PCI resources.
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410 o Intel EBSA285 HAL implementation.
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411 o NEC VRC4373 HAL implementation.
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413 * New watchdog drivers
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414 o ARM AEB-1
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415 o Hitachi EDK7708
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416 o Intel EBSA285
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418 * Debugging
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419 o Stack monitoring
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420 The file <cyg/kernel/test/stackmon.h> defines some functions
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421 that can be used to profile stack usage.
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423 * API changes
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424 o KAPI
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425 include/kapi.h (cyg_thread_delete): is now a boolean function to
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426 indicate success. Failure is when the thread needs to run in
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427 order to become killed.
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429 * HAL changes
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430 o i386/linux
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431 The eCos idle loop will not load the host system anymore (except
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432 in special configurations, see linux_misc.c).
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433 o MIPS
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434 Split into arch/variant/platform hierarchy.
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435 o MN10300
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436 Split into arch/variant/platform hierarchy.
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437 o PowerPC
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438 Split into arch/variant/platform hierarchy.
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439 Major revamp of exception handling - _not_ backwards compatible
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440 (see vectors.S for the reasoning behind the change).
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441 o SPARClite
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442 Where supported by the targetted platform, it is now possible to
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443 use Multiple Vector Trapping (MVT).
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444 o ARM
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445 The ARM Multi-ICE JTAG debugging interface is now supported on the
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446 relevant platforms. eCos has also been extended to provide thread
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447 debugging when debugging via Multi-ICE.
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449 * CygMon
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450 o Integration of CygMon ROM monitor into eCos by porting it on top
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451 of the eCos HAL
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453 --------- eCos 1.2.1 public net release:
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455 * Architectures and variants
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456 o ARM7TDMI
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457 o Fujitsu SPARClite
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458 o Intel x86 [incomplete, unsupported]
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459 o Matsushita MN10300
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460 o Motorola PowerPC
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461 o Sharp LH77790 (ARM7DI core)
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462 o Toshiba TX39 (MIPS R3900 derivative)
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464 * Platforms
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465 o ARM PID7T board
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466 o ARM AEB-1 board (rev B)
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467 o Cogent CMA287-23 (MPC823), CMA287-50 (MPC850), CMA286-60 (MPC860)
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468 o Fujitsu MB8683x boards
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469 o Linux/x86 Synthetic Target
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470 o Matsushita standard evaluation board
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471 o Matsushita standard evaluation board simulator
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472 o Motorola FADS board [unsupported] (contributed by Kevin Hester)
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473 o PSIM - PowerPC architectural simulator
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474 o Toshiba JMR3904 evaluation board
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475 o Toshiba JMR3904 evaluation board simulator
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476 o SIS - SPARClite simulator [unsupported]
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478 * Hosts
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479 o Redhat Linux 4.2 and later
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480 o Solaris 2.5.1 and later
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481 o Windows NT 4.0SP3 and later
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482 o Windows 95/98 (Beta)