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Merge from eCos master repository on 1999-09-12-15:40:34-BST
author jlarmour
date Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:26:05 +0000
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* These are the publically visible changes since eCos v1.2.1

** Target side platforms

*** These are the eCos 1.2.1 platforms...

**** ARM:
     ARM7TDMI - ARM PID7T board
     Sharp LH77790 (ARM7DI core) - ARM AEB-1 board

**** Fujitsu SPARClite:
     MB86831, MB86832, MB86833 - Fujitsu MB86800-MA01 board
     SIS - SPARClite simulator

**** Matsushita MN10300:
     MN103002 - standard evaluation board
     MN103002 - standard evaluation board simulator

**** Toshiba TX39 (MIPS R3900 derivative):
     TX39 - JMR3904 evaluation board
     TX39 - JMR3904 evaluation board simulator

**** MPC800 PowerPC:
     MPC823 - Cogent CMA287-23
     MPC850 - Cogent CMA287-50
     MPC860 - Cogent CMA286-60
     MPC860 - MPC8xxFADS (NB unsupported by Cygnus,
                          contributed by Kevin Hester)
     MPC823, MPC850, MPC860 - PSIM simulator

**** i386/Linux synthetic target
     
*** The following are the new target platforms...


**** ARM:
     ARM720  - Cirrus Logic CL7211 board
     ARM710C - Cirrus Logic CL7111 board

**** PowerPC
     Motorola MBX PowerPC Evaluation Board


** Host side platforms

*** These are the eCos 1.2.1 platforms....
**** Redhat Linux 4.2 and later
**** Solaris 2.5.1 and later
**** Windows NT 4.0SP3 and later
**** Windows 95/98 (Beta)

*** These are the new host platforms...

**** FIXME

** Host tool features

**** FIXME

** Drivers
*** Watchdog Drivers added for:
     Sharp LH77790 (ARM7DI core) - ARM AEB-1 board

** New toolchain features

** API additions (are there any?)

*** FIXME

** API changes

*** Kernel

**** Debugging
	The file <cyg/kernel/test/stackmon.h> defines some functions
	that can be used to profile stack usage.

**** KAPI
	include/kapi.h (cyg_thread_delete): is now a boolean function to
	indicate success.  Failure is when the thread needs to run in
	order to become killed.

** ISO C library

** HAL changes

*** Common