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diff packages/NEWS @ 208:e0c0827131d1 ecos
Merge from eCos master repository on 2002-05-20-20:11:54-BST
| author | jlarmour |
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| date | Mon, 20 May 2002 22:19:26 +0000 |
| parents | 353a011b23b8 |
| children | d2c90368aeef |
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--- a/packages/NEWS +++ b/packages/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,66 @@ +* Ported new networking stack from FreeBSD to eCos. Includes IPv6 support. +* Added generic power management support, plus platform support for the iPAQ. +* Ported Microwindows windowing graphics system. This port is still alpha. +* Added hooks in common ethernet driver for lwIP lightweight IP stack. +* Added RedBoot only ports to Samsung Calmrisc16 and Calmrisc32 architectures. + Includes board ports to Calm16 Core and Calm32 Core eval boards. +* Added Samsung ARM KS32c5000 SNDS100 eval board port including RedBoot and + ethernet support. Contributed by Grant Edwards of Comtrol. +* eCos+RedBoot port to the Altera ARM9 Excalibur board. Includes FLASH driver. +* eCos+RedBoot port to Hitachi SH3-based HS7729PCI board, with SH 7729 CPU. + Includes FLASH, ethernet, watchdog and wallclock drivers. The ethernet + driver includes generic support for the VIA Rhine chipset. +* eCos+RedBoot port to Hitachi SH3-based Solution Engine SE77x9 board. + Includes FLASH, ethernet, serial and watchdog drivers. +* eCos+RedBoot port to Hitachi SH4-based Solution Engine SE7751 board. + Includes FLASH, ethernet, serial and watchdog drivers. +* Support for the SH2 core, and SH2 on-chip etherc added. +* Port to Matsushita AM33-2 based ASB2305 board added, including serial, + ethernet and FLASH support. +* Ethernet, serial and USB drivers for NEC MIPS uPD985xx chip family added. +* RedBoot-only port to MIPS Malta evaluation board (Mips32 4Kc and Mips64 5Kc + cores) added, including FLASH and ethernet support. +* Port to NEC MIPS VRC4375-based 'Blue Nile' evaluation board. Includes + FLASH, serial and ethernet drivers (the latter being new support for the + i21143 chipset). +* Ethernet driver for Intel i82544 Gigabit ethernet added. +* Support for Samsung ARM KS32C5000 on-core ethernet broken out into "generic" + driver. +* New architectural port to Fujitsu FR-V added. Initial board port to FR-V 400 + development board, including RedBoot support and ethernet and FLASH drivers. + Currently pre-alpha quality only. +* Support added to port remote file operations using the remote protocol for + newlib applications run under RedBoot. +* eCos+RedBoot port to Intel XScale IQ80321 port added, including FLASH, + ethernet, and serial drivers. +* ARM Integrator port rewritten. Now includes ARM9 support. +* RedBoot+eCos port to the Agilent ARM9-based AAED2000 evaluation board. + Includes FLASH, ethernet, keyboard and touchscreen drivers. +* eCos relicensed to be under a GPL+exception licence, instead of the RHEPL. +* All eCos documentation now available in DocBook format, licensed under the + OPL. +* CYGPKG_IO_ETH_DRIVERS now puts its headers in install/include/cyg/io/eth +* All platforms are now expected to be using Virtual Vectors. The + option CYGINT_HAL_VIRTUAL_VECTOR_SUPPORT_NOT_GUARANTEED has been + removed so recently built applications will fail to run on + boards that have old-style GDB stubs without VV support. +* Added ELF and wider decompression support to RedBoot. +* Added support for SuperH SH2 CPUs +* Added ports to Wuerz Elektronik and Axiom Manufacturing MPC555 based eval + boards. Contributed by Bob Koninckx <bob.koninckx@mech.kuleuven.ac.be> + from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Includes FLASH, serial and wallclock + drivers. +* Added H8/300 port contributed by Yoshinori Sato <qzb04471@nifty.ne.jp> + Initially for Akizuki H8/3068 board with ethernet and serial driver support, + and H8/300H simulator. +* Added RedBoot support for remote file I/O operations using the GDB remote + protocol. +* Added SPARC_LEON port contributed by Jiri Gaisler <jiri@gaisler.com> - + see <http://www.gaisler.com> for information about the TSIM simulator + and Leon project per se. +* Added port to CerfCube and CerfPDA, contributed by the manufacturer, + Intrinsyc. Includes ethernet drivers. +* Added alpha of JFFS2 journalling flash file system v2 support. * Add synthetic target synthetic flash driver, contributed by Andrew Lunn. * CqREEK SH7750 FLASH driver added, contributed by Koichi Nagashima * EDB7xxx ethernet driver rewritten to be a generic Cirrus Logic CS8900A @@ -11,6 +74,8 @@ * Flash driver added for the SH EDK7708 platform. * Added rudimentary ELF loader, including support for dynamic objects under services/loader. +* DNS lookup support added. Contributed by Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch> +* Cogent [Cirrus Logic] EDB7312 platform added. * Dallas wallclock driver implemented for x86 PC. * AMD PCNet ethernet driver added. * Generic SMP support added. @@ -281,6 +346,10 @@ o SPARClite Where supported by the targetted platform, it is now possible to use Multiple Vector Trapping (MVT). + o ARM + The ARM Multi-ICE JTAG debugging interface is now supported on the + relevant platforms. eCos has also been extended to provide thread + debugging when debugging via Multi-ICE. * CygMon o Integration of CygMon ROM monitor into eCos by porting it on top
