DSP/BIOS 5.41.00.06 Patch Release Notes

This release note is divided into the following sections:

Introduction, Documentation, What's New, Upgrading And Compatibility Information, Host Support, Dependencies, Device Support, Validation Information, Known Issues, Benchmarks, Versioning, Technical Support And Product Updates,

Introduction

DSP/BIOS 5.41.00.06 is a new release of DSP/BIOS that supports both CCSv3 and CCSv4 environments.   This release includes separate installers for CCSv3 and CCSv4.  The target content (libraries and .h files) are identical in both installations.  The main difference is that different tools are provided in each release as necessary to work with CCSv3 or CCSv4. 

Merging these 2 product versions into single BIOS 5.41.00.06 product version will allow for better feature and defect tracking and more timely updates.
 
Besides the productization changes, the main new feature for BIOS 5.41.00.06 is the support for power management for the C6748 and OMAPL138 devices.   Look for the PWRM APIs in the DSP/BIOS C6x API Guide and the PWRM overview in the User's Guide for more information.

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Documentation

The following documentation is provided with this release:

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What's New

Id                                Headline
SDOCM00061685    C6748 DEEPSLEEP mode can cause DDR memory corruption
SDOCM00061056    Create two separate installers for CCSv3 and CCSv4
SDOCM00061015    please add UG and API guides the CCSv4 eclipse help index for BIOS 5.4x
SDOCM00060972    PWRM incorrectly indicates set/release dependency failure
SDOCM00060933    ROV for BIOS 5.4x needs to show system stack usage
SDOCM00060850    add support for evm6467T (1GHz) and evm platform for same
SDOCM00060388    BIOS5 6748 and OMAPL138 CLK/timer should not require .gel file to work correctly
SDOCM00060026    Need PWRM config and API info for 6748 and OMAPL138 incorporated into BIOS C6x API guide
SDOCM00059936    add bios_5504.tci file to support C5504 devices
SDOCM00059221    BIOS 5 & 6 RTA - Formatter does not support %X
SDOCM00058846    BIOS 5.40 ROV view should use hex for MEM end address
SDOCM00057921    Default TSK.STACKSIZE in SPRU625I (BIOS5 api docs for 28x targets) is 256, not 128
SDOCM00057332    DSP/BIOS 5.41 must have a new license
SDOCM00054730    Remove deprecation warning for DEV APIs
SDOCM00046823    BIOS 5: HWI_isHwi() documentation has contradictory statement
SDOCM00046822    few help file in BIOS 5.32 refers to BIOS 5.31
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Upgrading And Compatibility Information

DSP/BIOS is binary compatible with DSP/BIOS 5.33 (and all the way back to DSP/BIOS 5.21). Users do not need to recompile your source files or libraries when updating to BIOS 5.41. However users *must* rebuild their configuration since the generated linker .cmd file (<prog>cfg.cmd) is different.

Solaris host is no longer supported in this release. Customer-critical bug fixes to earlier releases will be available to Solaris users if required.

DSP/BIOS 5.41 does not support TMS320C54xx devices. Users of such devices should continue use DSP/BIOS 5.31.xx earlier releases. For customer-critical 54xx-related issues, TI will continue to provide fixes to earlier versions when needed.

Compatibility Key Definitions

Compatibility keys are intentionally independent of Marketing product numbers and are intended to:

  1. Enable tooling to identify incompatibilities between components, and
  2. Convey a level of compatibility between different releases to set end user expectations.

Compatibility keys are composed of 3 comma-delimited numbers - M,S,R - where:

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Host Support

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Dependencies

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Device Support

This release supports the following devices:

  Device


28x F2801, F2806, F2808, F2810, F2811, F2812, F28232, F28234, F28235, F28332, F28334, F28335, F2802x, F2803x, F2834x

55x 5501, 5502, 5503, 5504, 5505, 5507, 5509A, DA255,  DA295, DA300, 5510, 5510A, 5561, DA255, DA295, DA300, OMAP1035, OMAP1510, OMAP1610, OMAP1710, OMAP5903, OMAP5905, OMAP5910, OMAP5912, OMAP5944, OMAP5946, OMAP5948, OMAP2320, OMAP2420, TNETV1050, TNETV1055
62x 6202, 6203, 6203B, 6204, 6205, 6211, 6211B
64x 6410, 6411, 6412, 6413, 6414, 6415, 6416, 6418, DM415, DM420, DM421, DM425, DM426, DM640, DM641, DM642, DRI300
64x+ 6421, 6424, 6428, 6452, 6454, 6455, 6474, DM6431, DM6433, DM6435, DM6437, DM6441, DM6443, DM6446, DM6467, DM6467T,  DM357, DM647, DM648, TCI6482,  DRA402, DRA404, DRA406,  DRA414, DRA416, DRA442, DRA444, DRA446, F761990, OMAP2420, OMAP2430, OMAP2431, OMAP2530, OMAP2531, OMAP3425, OMAP3430, OMAP3525,  OMAP3530, TCI6482, TCI6484, TCI6486, TCI6487, TCI6488, TCI6486, TNETV107X, TNETV2685

67x 6701, 6711, 6711 - 250, 6712, 6713, 6713 - 300
67x+ 6722, 6726, 6727, DA700, DA705, DA707, DA710

674xOMAPL137, OMAPL138, DA830, 6747, 6748
 
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Validation Information

This release was built using the following components:

This release was validated using the following components:

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Known Issues

The following issues are known to affect this release:

SDOCM00058656    BIOS 5 ROV - LOG view should use RTA decoder
SDOCM00058389    Stairstep RTA example does not run correctly for simulator
SDOCM00058088    BIOS 5 RTA - Primus simulator requires reset in between loads
SDOCM00058087    BIOS 5 RTA - On primus simulator, fails if RTA already open
SDOCM00057506    BIOS 5 RTA control panel should separate STS and CPU Load
SDOCM00057326    BIOS 5 RTA - Support LOG_printf4
SDOCM00056732    BIOS 5 RTA - CPU Load broken on 55x simulator
SDOCM00056731    BIOS 5 RTA - Over XDS560, RTDX fails if RTA is open when program loaded
SDOCM00056730    BIOS 5 RTA Over USB or 510USB, RTDX fails after 2nd time program is loaded
SDOCM00054997    RTA stops streaming for the stairstep example on 64P targets when program reloaded

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Benchmarks

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Versioning

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. 5.41.00.17_eng or 5.41.00.17_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 in the top level directory, ex. bios_5_41_00_17.

Subsequent releases of patch upgrades will be identified by the patch number, ex. BIOS 5.41.01.18 with directory bios_5_41_01_18. 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.

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Technical Support And Product Updates

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Last updated: September 04, 2009