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      <h1><big><font color="#3c34ec"><i>NuttX RTOS</i></font></big></h1>
      <p>Last Updated: December 19, 2009</p>
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    <a href="#overview">Overview</a>.<br>
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    What is NuttX?  Look at all those files and features... How can it be a tiny OS?
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    <a href="#group">NuttX Discussion Group</a>.<br>
    Do you want to talk about NuttX features?  Do you need some help?  Problems?  Bugs?
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    <a href="#downloads">Downloads</a>.<br>
    Where can I get NuttX?  What is the current development status?
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    <a href="#platforms">Supported Platforms</a>.<br>
    What target platforms has NuttX been ported to?
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    <a href="#environments">Development Environments</a>.<br>
    What kinds of host cross-development platforms can be used with NuttX?
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    <a href="#footprint">Memory Footprint</a>.<br>
    Just how big is it?  Do I have enough memory to use NuttX?
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    <a href="#licensing">Licensing</a>.<br>
    Are there any licensing restrictions for the use of NuttX? (Almost none)
    Will there be problems if I link my proprietary code with NuttX? (No)
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    <a href="#history">Release History</a><br>
    What has changed in the last release of NuttX?
    What unreleased changes are pending in CVS?
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    <a href="#TODO">Bugs, Issues, <i>Things-To-Do</i></a>.<br>
    Software is never finished nor ever tested well enough.
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    (Do you want to help develop NuttX?  If so, send me an email).
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    <a href="#documentation">Other Documentation</a>.<br>
    What other NuttX documentation is available?
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    <a href="#trademarks">Trademarks</a>.<br>
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    <a name="overview"><h1>Overview</h1></a>
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  <b>Goals</b>.
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  Nuttx is a real timed embedded operating system (RTOS).
  Its goals are:
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    <b>Small Footprint</b>
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      Usable in all but the tightest micro-controller environments,
      The focus is on the tiny-to-small, deeply embedded environment.
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    <b>Rich Feature OS Set</b>
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      The goal is to provide implementations of most standard POSIX OS interfaces
      to support a rich, multi-threaded development environment for deeply embedded
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      processors.
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      NON-GOALS: (1) It is not a goal to provide the rich level of OS
      features like those provided with Linux.
      Small footprint is more important than features.
      Standard compliance is more important than small footprint.
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      (2) There is no MMU-based support for processes.
      At present, NuttX assumes a flat address space.
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    <b>Highly Scalable</b>
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      Fully scalable from tiny (8-bit) to moderate embedded (32-bit).
      Scalability with rich feature set is accomplished with:
      Many tiny source files, link from static libraries, highly configurable, use of
      weak symbols when available.
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    <b>Standards Compliance</b>
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    <p>
      NuttX strives to achieve a high degree of standards compliance.
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      The primary governing standards are POSIX and ANSI standards.
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      Additional standard APIs from Unix and other common RTOS's are
      adopted for functionality not available under these standards
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      or for functionality that is not appropriate for the deeply-embedded
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      RTOS (such as <code>fork()</code>).
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      Because of this standards conformance, software developed under other
      standard OSs (such as Linux) should port easily to NuttX.
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    <b>Real-Time</b>
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      Fully pre-emptible, fixed priority and round-robin scheduling.
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    <b>Totally Open</b>
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      Non-restrictive BSD license.
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    <b>GNU Toolchains</b>
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      Compatible GNU toolchains based on <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">buildroot</a>
      available for
      <a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189573&package_id=224585">download</a>
      to provide a complete development environment for many architectures.
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<p>
  <b>Feature Set</b>.
  Key features of NuttX include:
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    <b>Standards Compliant Core Task Management</b>
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      <li>Modular, micro-kernel</li>
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      <li>Fully pre-emptible.</li>
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      <li>Naturally scalable.</li>
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      <li>Highly configurable.</li>
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      <li>Easily extensible to new processor architectures, SoC architecture, or board architectures.
          A <a href="NuttxPortingGuide.html">Porting Guide</a> is in development.</li>
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      <li>FIFO and round-robin scheduling.</li>
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      <li>Realtime, deterministic, with support for priority inheritance</li>
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      <li>POSIX/ANSI-like task controls, named message queues, counting semaphores, clocks/timers, signals, pthreads, environment variables, filesystem.</li>
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      <li>VxWorks-like task management and watchdog timers.</li>
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      <li>BSD socket interface.</li>
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      <li>Extensions to manage pre-emption.</li>
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      <li>Well documented in the NuttX <a href="NuttxUserGuide.html">User Guide</a>.</li>
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    <b>File system</b>
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      <li>Tiny in-memory, root pseudo-file-system.</li>
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      <li>Supports character and block drivers.</li>
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      <li>Network, USB (device), serial, CAN, driver architecture.</li>
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      <li>RAMDISK, pipes, FIFO, <code>/dev/null</code>, <code>/dev/zero</code> drivers.</li>
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      <li>Mount-able volumes.  Bind mountpoint, filesystem, and block device driver.</li>
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      <li>FAT12/16/32 filesystem support.</li>
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      <li>Generic driver for SPI-based MMC/SD/SDH cards.</li>
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      <li>ROMFS filesystem support.</li>
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      <li><a href="NuttXNxFlat.html">NXFLAT</a>.
      A new binary format call NXFLAT that can be used to 
      execute separately linked programs in place in a file system.
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    <b>C Library</b>
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      <li>Fully integrated into the OS.</li>
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    <b>Networking</b>
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      <li>TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP stacks.</li>
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      <li>Small footprint (based on uIP).</li>
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      <li>BSD compatible socket layer.</li>
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      <li>Networking utilities (DHCP, SMTP, TELNET, TFTP, HTTP)</li>
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      <li>
        A NuttX port of Jeff Poskanzer's <a href="http://acme.com/software/thttpd">THTTPD</a> HTTP server
        integrated with <a href="NuttXNxFlat.html">NXFLAT</a> to provide true, embedded CGI.
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      <li><i>Gadget</i>-like architecture for USB device controller drivers and device-dependent USB class drivers.</li>
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      <li>USB device controller drivers available for the NXP LPC214x and TI DM320.</li>
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      <li>Device-dependent USB class drivers available for USB serial and for USB mass storage.</li>
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      <li>Built-in USB trace functionality for USB debug.</li>
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      <li>
         NX: A graphics library, tiny windowing system and tiny font support.
         Documented in the <a href="NXGraphicsSubsystem.html">NX Graphics Subsystem</a>
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<p>
  <b>NuttX Add-Ons</b>.
  The following packages are available to extend the basic NuttX feature set:
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    <b>NuttShell (NSH)</b>
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      <li>A small, scalable, bash-like shell for NuttX with rich feature set and small footprint.
        See the <a href="NuttShell.html">NuttShell User Guide</a>.</li>
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    <b>Pascal Compiler with NuttX runtime P-Code interpreter add-on</b>
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      <li>The Pascal add-on is available for download from the
        <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189573">SourceForge</a>
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  <b>Look at all those files and features... How can it be a tiny OS?</b>.
  The NuttX feature list (above) is fairly long and if you look at the NuttX
  source tree, you will see that there are hundreds of source files comprising
  NuttX.  How can NuttX be a tiny OS with all of that?
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    <b>Lots of Features -- More can be smaller!</b>
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      The philosophy behind that NuttX is that lots of features are great... <i>BUT</i>
      also that if you don't use those features, then you should not have to pay a penalty
      for the unused features.
      And, with NuttX, you don't!  If you don't use a feature, it will not
      be included in the final executable binary.
      You only have to pay the penalty of increased footprint for the features
      that you actually use.
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      Using a variety of technologies, NuttX can scale from the very tiny to
      the moderate-size system.  I have executed NuttX with some simple applications
      in as little as 32Kb <i>total</i> memory (code and data).
      On the other hand, typical, richly featured NuttX builds require more like 64Kb
      (and if all of the features are used, this can push 100Kb).
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    <b>Many, many files -- More really is smaller!</b>
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    <p>
      One may be intimidated by the size NuttX source tree.  There are hundreds of source files!
      How can that be a tiny OS?
      Actually, the large number of files is one of the tricks to keep NuttX small and
      as scalable as possible.
      Most files contain only a single function. 
      Sometimes just one tiny function with only a few lines of code.
      Why?
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <b>Static Libraries</b>.
        Because in the NuttX build processed, objects are compiled and saved into
        <i>static libraries</i> (<i>archives</i>).
        Then, when the file executable is linked, only the object files that are needed
        are extracted from the archive and added to the final executable.
        By having many, many tiny source files, you can assure that no code that you do
        not execute is ever included in the link.
        And by having many, tiny source files you have better granularity --
        if you don't use that tiny function of even just a few lines of code, it will
        not be included in the binary.
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    <b>Other Tricks</b>
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    <p>
      As mentioned above, the use of many, tiny source files and linking from static
      libraries keeps the size of NuttX down.
      Other tricks used in NuttX include:
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>
         <b>Configuration Files</b>.
         Before you build NuttX, you must provide a configuration file that specifies
         what features you plan to use and which features you do not.
         This configuration file contains a long list of settings that control
         what is built into NuttX and what is not.
         There are hundreds of such settings
         (see the <a href="NuttxPortingGuide.html#apndxconfigs">NuttX Porting Guide</a>
         for a partial list that excludes platform specific settings).
         These many, many configuration options allow NuttX to be highly tuned to
         meet size requirements.
         The downside to all of these configuration options is that it greatly
         complicates the maintenance of NuttX -- but that is my problem, not yours.
      </li>
      <li>
         <b>Weak Symbols</b>
         The GNU toolchain supports <i>weak</i> symbols and these also help to keep
         the size of NuttX down.
         Weak symbols prevent object files from being drawn into the link even if they
         are accessed from source code.
         Careful use of weak symbols is another trick for keep unused code out of the
         final binary.
      </li>
    </ul>
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    <a name="group"><h1>NuttX Discussion Group</h1></a>
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<p>
  Most Nuttx-related discussion occurs on the <a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nuttx/" target="_top"><i>Yahoo!</i> NuttX group</a>.
  You are cordially invited to <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nuttx/join" target="_top">join</a>.
  I make a special effort to answer any questions and provide any help that I can.
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<p><b>nuttx-4.14</b>.
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  This 46<sup>th</sup> release of NuttX was made on December 2, 2009 and is available for download from the
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  The change log associated with the release is available <a href="#currentrelease">here</a>.
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  Unreleased changes after this release are available in CVS.
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  These unreleased changes are listed <a href="#pendingchanges">here</a>.
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  The release extends the support for the STMicro STM32 microcontroller.
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  Minimal support for the STM3210E-EVAL development board based around the STM32F103ZET6
  MCU was released in NuttX-0.4.12 and extended in Nuttx-0.4.13 to include initial USB support.
  This completes the STM32F103ZET6 support and adds:
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  New Generic RTOS Features:
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	<li>Added generic support that can be included in any block driver to provide
	    read-ahead buffering and write buffering for improved driver performance.</li>
    <li>Added a generic worker thread that can used to defer processing from an
	    interrupt to a task.</li>
    <li>Defined a generic SD/SDIO interface can can be bound to a MMC/SD or SDIO
	    driver to orovide SDIO support.</li>
    <li>Implemented a an SDIO-based MMC/SD driver using this new SDIO interface</li> 
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  New STM32-specific Features:
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	<li>Add support to configure an STM32 input GPIO to generate an EXTI interrupt.</li>
    <li>Added support for buttons on the STM3210E-EVAL board.</li>
    <li>Implemented an STM32 version of the common the SDIO interface.</li>
    <li>Added a configuration to exercise the STM32 with the USB mass storage
	    device class example.</li> 
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  This release also corrects some important bugs in the earlier STM32 releases:
  <ul>
	<li>Correct error handling in the mount() logic.</li>
    <li> Fixed several STM32 DMA-related issues. Integrated and debugged STM32 DMA
	    functionality that was added in 0.4.12.</li>
    <li>Fixed several bugs in the STM32 USB device-side driver.</li>
  </ul>
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  NOTE:  This version, 4.14, is equivalent to what would have been called 0.4.14
  to follow 0.4.13.  The zero has been eliminated from the front of the version
  number to avoid confusion about the state of development:  Some have interpreted
  the leading zero to mean that the code is in some way unstable.  That was not
  the intent.  Beginning in January 2010, I will switch to the 2010.nn versioning
  as many others have done to avoid such confusion.
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    <b>Linux User Mode</b>
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    <p>
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      A user-mode port of NuttX to the x86 Linux/Cygwin platform is available.
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      The purpose of this port is primarily to support OS feature development.
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        <b>STATUS:</b>
        Does not support interrupts but is otherwise fully functional.
      </p>
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    <b>ARM7TDMI</b>.
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      <b>TI TMS320C5471</b> (also called <b>C5471</b> or <b>TMS320DA180</b> or <b>DA180</b>).
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      NuttX operates on the ARM7 of this dual core processor.
      This port uses the <a href="http://www.spectrumdigital.com/">Spectrum Digital</a>
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    <ul>
      <p>
        <b>STATUS:</b>
        This port is complete, verified, and included in the initial NuttX release.
      </p>
    </ul>
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      <b>NXP LPC214x</b>.
      Support is provided for the NXP LPC214x family of processors.  In particular,
      support is provided for the mcu123.com lpc214x evaluation board (LPC2148).
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      This port also used the GNU arm-elf toolchain* under Linux or Cygwin.
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      <p>
        <b>STATUS:</b>
        This port boots and passes the OS test (examples/ostest).
        The port is complete and verified.  As of NuttX 0.3.17, the port includes:
        timer interrupts, serial console, USB driver, and SPI-based MMC/SD card
        support.  A verified NuttShell <a href="NuttShell.html">(NSH)</a>
        configuration is also available.
      </p>
      <p>
        <b>Development Environments:</b>
        1) Linux with native Linux GNU toolchain, 2) Cygwin with Cygwin GNU toolchain, or 3) Cygwin
        with Windows native toolchain (CodeSourcery or devkitARM).  A DIY toolchain for Linux
        or Cygwin is provided by the NuttX
        <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189573&package_id=224585">buildroot</a>
        package.
      </p>
    </ul>
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      <b>STMicro STR71x</b>.
      Support is provided for the STMicro STR71x family of processors.  In particular,
      support is provided for the Olimex STR-P711 evaluation board.
      This port also used the GNU arm-elf toolchain* under Linux or Cygwin.
    </p>
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      <p>
        <b>STATUS:</b>
        Integration is complete on the basic port (boot logic, system time, serial console).
        Two configurations have been verified: (1) The board boots and passes the OS test
        with console output visible on UART0, and the NuttShell <a href="NuttShell.html">(NSH)</a>
        is fully functional with interrupt driven serial console.  An SPI driver is available
        but untested (because the Olimex card slot appears to accept only MMC cards; I have
        only SD cards).  Additional features are needed: USB driver, MMC integration, to name two.
      </p>
      <p>
        <b>Development Environments:</b>
        1) Linux with native Linux GNU toolchain, 2) Cygwin with Cygwin GNU toolchain, or 3) Cygwin
        with Windows native toolchain (CodeSourcery or devkitARM).  A DIY toolchain for Linux
        or Cygwin is provided by the NuttX
        <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189573&package_id=224585">buildroot</a>
        package.
      </p>
    </ul>
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    <b>ARM920T</b>.
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    <p>
      <b>Freescale MC9328MX1</b> or <b>i.MX1</b>.
      This port uses the Freescale MX1ADS development board with a GNU arm-elf toolchain*
      under either Linux or Cygwin.
    </p>
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      <p>
        <b>STATUS:</b>
          This port is in progress.  Coding is complete on the basic port (timer, serial console, SPI).
          Verified support for the i.MX1 will be announced in a future release of NuttX (work was
          been temporarily stopped to support the Luminary LM3S6918 and I have not yet worked around
		  some development tool issues.).
      </p>
    </ul>
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    <b>ARM926EJS</b>.
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    <p>
      <b>TI TMS320DM320</b> (also called <b>DM320</b>).
      NuttX operates on the ARM9 of this dual core processor.
      This port uses the
      <a href="http://wiki.neurostechnology.com/index.php/Developer_Welcome">Neuros OSD</a>
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      <p>
        <b>STATUS:</b>
          The basic port (timer interrupts, serial ports, network, framebuffer, etc.) is complete.
          All implemented features have been verified with the exception of the USB device-side
          driver; that implementation is complete but untested.
      </p>
    </ul>
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    <b>ARM Cortex-M3</b>.
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    <p>
      <b>Luminary LM3S6918</b>.
      This port uses the <a href=" http://www.micromint.com/">Micromint</a> Eagle-100 development
      board with a GNU arm-elf toolchain* under either Linux or Cygwin.
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      <p>
        <b>STATUS:</b>
          The initial, release of this port was included in NuttX  version 0.4.6.
          The current port includes timer, serial console, Ethernet, SSI, and microSD support.
          There are working configurations the NuttX OS test, to run the <a href="NuttShell.html">NuttShell
          (NSH)</a>, the NuttX networking test, and the uIP web server.
      </p>
      <p>
        <b>Development Environments:</b>
        1) Linux with native Linux GNU toolchain, 2) Cygwin with Cygwin GNU toolchain, or 3) Cygwin
        with Windows native toolchain (CodeSourcery or devkitARM).  A DIY toolchain for Linux
        or Cygwin is provided by the NuttX
        <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189573&package_id=224585">buildroot</a>
        package.
      </p>
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      <b>STMicro STM32F103x</b>.
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      This port uses the <a href=" http://www.st.com/">STMicro</a> STM3210E-EVAL
	  development board that features the STM32F103ZET6 MCU.
	  This port uses a GNU arm-elf toolchain* under either Linux or Cygwin (with native Windows GNU
	  tools or Cygwin-based GNU tools).
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        <b>STATUS:</b>
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        The basic STM32 port was released in NuttX version 0.4.12. The basic port includes boot-up
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        logic, interrupt driven serial console, and system timer interrupts.
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        The 0.4.13 release added support for SPI, serial FLASH, and USB device.;
        The 4.14 release added support for buttons and SDIO-based MMC/SD and verifed DMA support.
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        Verified configurations are available for NuttX OS test, the NuttShell (NSH) example,
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        the USB serial device class, and the USB mass storage device class example.
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      <p>
        <b>Development Environments:</b>
        1) Linux with native Linux GNU toolchain, 2) Cygwin with Cygwin GNU toolchain, or 3) Cygwin
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        with Windows native toolchain (RIDE7, CodeSourcery or devkitARM).  A DIY toolchain for Linux
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        or Cygwin is provided by the NuttX
        <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189573&package_id=224585">buildroot</a>
        package.
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    <b>8052 Microcontroller</b>
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      <b>PJRC 87C52 Development Board</b>.
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      This port uses the <a href="http://www.pjrc.com/">PJRC</a> 87C52 development system
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      <p>
       <b>STATUS:</b>
        This port is complete but not stable with timer interrupts enabled.
        There seems to be some issue when the stack pointer enters into the indirect IRAM
        address space during interrupt handling.
        This architecture has not been built in some time will likely have some compilation
        problems because of SDCC compiler differences.
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    <b>Renesas/Hitachi SuperH</b>
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      <b>SH-1 SH7032</b>.
      This port uses the Hitachi SH-1 Low-Cost Evaluation Board (SH1_LCEVB1), US7032EVB,
      with a GNU arm-elf toolchain* under Linux or Cygwin.
    </p>
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      <p>
       <b>STATUS:</b>
        This port is available as of release 0.3.18 of NuttX.  The port is basically complete
        and many examples run correctly.  However, there are remaining instabilities that
        make the port un-usable.  The nature of these is not understood; the behavior is
        that certain SH-1 instructions stop working as advertised.  This could be a silicon
        problem, some pipeline issue that is not handled properly by the gcc 3.4.5 toolchain
        (which has very limit SH-1 support to begin with), or perhaps with the CMON debugger.
        At any rate, I have exhausted all of the energy that I am willing to put into this cool
        old processor for the time being.
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    <p>
      <b>Renesas M16C/26 Microncontroller</b>.
      This port uses the Renesas SKP16C26 Starter kit and the GNU M32C toolchain. 
      The development environment is either Linux or Cygwin under WinXP.
    </p>
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      <p>
        <b>STATUS:</b>
        Initial source files released in nuttx-0.4.2.
        At this point, the port has not been integrated;	the target cannot be built
        because the GNU <code>m16c-elf-ld</code> link fails with  the following message:
      </p>
      <ul>
      <code>m32c-elf-ld: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.19 assertion fail /home/Owner/projects/nuttx/buildroot/toolchain_build_m32c/binutils-2.19/bfd/elf32-m32c.c:482</code>
      </ul>
      <p>Where the reference line is:</p>
      <ul><pre>
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/* If the symbol is out of range for a 16-bit address,
   we must have allocated a plt entry.  */
BFD_ASSERT (*plt_offset != (bfd_vma) -1);
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        No workaround is known at this time.  This is a show stopper for M16C for
        the time being.
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    <b>Zilog Z16F</b>
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    <p>
      <b>Zilog z16f Microncontroller</b>.
      This port use the Zilog z16f2800100zcog development kit and the Zilog
      ZDS-II Windows command line tools.
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        <b>STATUS:</b>
        The initial release of support for the z16f was made available in NuttX version 0.3.7.
      </p>
    </ul>
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      <b>Zilog eZ80Acclaim! Microncontroller</b>.
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      <li>One uses the ZiLOG ez80f0910200kitg development kit, and
      <li>The other uses the ZiLOG ez80f0910200zcog-d development kit.
    </ul>
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      Both boards are based on the eZ80F091 part and both use the Zilog ZDS-II
      Windows command line tools.
      The development environment is Cygwin under WinXP.
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      <p>
        <b>STATUS:</b>
        Integration and testing of NuttX on the  ZiLOG ez80f0910200zcog-d is complete.
        The first integrated version was released in NuttX version 0.4.2 (with important early bugfixes
        in 0.4.3 and 0.4.4).
        As of this writing, that port provides basic board support with a serial console, SPI, and eZ80F91 EMAC driver.
      </p>
    </ul>
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    <b>Zilog Z8Encore!</b>
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    <p>
      <b>Zilog Z8Encore! Microncontroller</b>.
      This port uses the either:
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>Zilog z8encore000zco development kit, Z8F6403 part, or</li>
      <li>Zilog z8f64200100kit development kit, Z8F6423 part</li>
    </ul>
    <p>
      and the Zilog ZDS-II Windows command line tools.
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      The development environment is Cygwin under WinXP.
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       <p>
         <b>STATUS:</b>
         This release has been verified only on the ZiLOG ZDS-II Z8Encore! chip simulation
         as of nuttx-0.3.9.
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    <b>Zilog Z80</b>
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      <b>Z80 Instruction Set Simulator</b>.
      This port uses the <a href="http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/">SDCC</a> toolchain
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      under Linux or Cygwin (verified using version 2.6.0).
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      This port has been verified using only a Z80 instruction simulator.
      That simulator can be found in the NuttX CVS
      <a href="http://nuttx.cvs.sourceforge.net/nuttx/misc/sims/z80sim/">here</a>.
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    <ul>
      <p>
       <b>STATUS:</b>
        This port is complete and stable to the extent that it can be tested
        using an instruction set simulator.
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    <b>Other ports</b>
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    <p>
      There are partial ports for the TI TMS320DM270 and for MIPS.
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<blockquote>* A highly modified <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">buildroot</a>
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is available that may be used to build a NuttX-compatible ELF toolchain under
Linux or Cygwin.  Configurations are available in that buildroot to support ARM,
m68k, m68hc11, m68hc12, and SuperH ports.</blockquote>
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    <a name="environments"><h1>Development Environments</h1></a>
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    <b>Linux + GNU <code>make</code> + GCC/binutils</b>
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    <p>
      The is the most natural development environment for NuttX.
      Any version of the GCC/binutils toolchain may be used.
      There is a  highly modified <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">buildroot</a>
      available for download from the
      <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189573">NuttX SourceForge</a>
      page.
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      This download may be used to build a NuttX-compatible ELF toolchain under Linux or Cygwin.
      That toolchain will support ARM, m68k, m68hc11, m68hc12, and SuperH ports.
      The buildroot CVS may be accessed in the 
      <a href="http://nuttx.cvs.sourceforge.net/nuttx/misc/buildroot/">NuttX CVS</a>.
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    <b>Linux + GNU <code>make</code> + SDCC</b>
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    <p>
      Also very usable is the Linux environment using the 
      <a href="http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/">SDCC</a> compiler.
      The SDCC compiler provides support for the 8051/2, z80, hc08, and other microcontrollers.
      The SDCC-based logic is less well exercised and you will likely find some compilation
      issues if you use parts of NuttX with SDCC that have not been well-tested.
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    <b>Cygwin + GNU <code>make</code> + GCC/binutils</b>
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    <p>
      This combination works well too.
      It works just as well as the native Linux environment except
      that compilation and build times are a little longer.
      The custom NuttX buildroot referenced above may be build in
      the Cygwin environment as well.
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    <b>Cygwin + GNU <code>make</code> + SDCC</b>
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       I have never tried this combination, but it would probably work just fine.
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    <b>Cygwin + GNU <code>make</code> + Windows Native Toolchain</b>
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    <p>
      This is a tougher environment.
      In this case, the Windows native toolchain is unaware of the
      Cygwin <i>sandbox</i> and, instead, operates in the native Windows environment.
      The primary difficulties with this are:
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>
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        <b>Paths</b>.
        Full paths for the native toolchain must follow Windows standards.
        For example, the path <code>/home/my\ name/nuttx/include</code> my have to be
        converted to something like <code>'C:\cygwin\home\my name\nuttx\include'</code>
        to be usable by the toolchain.
      </li>
      <p>
        Fortunately, this conversion is done simply using the <code>cygpath</code> utility.
      </p>
      <li>
        <b>Symbolic Links</b>
        NuttX depends on symbolic links to install platform-specific directories in the build system.
        On Linux, true symbolic links are used.
        On Cygwin, emulated symbolic links are used.
        Unfortunately, for native Windows applications that operate outside of the
        Cygwin <i>sandbox</i>, these symbolic links cannot be used.
      </li>
      <p>
        The NuttX make system works around this limitation by copying the platform
        specific directories in place.
        These copied directories make work a little more complex, but otherwise work well.
      </p>
      <li>
        <b>Dependencies</b>
        NuttX uses the GCC compiler's <code>-M</code> option to generate make dependencies.  These
        dependencies are retained in files called <code>Make.deps</code> throughout the system.
        For compilers other than GCC, there is no support for making dependencies in this way.
        For Windows native GCC compilers, the generated dependencies are windows paths and not
        directly usable in the Cygwin make.  By default, dependencies are surpressed for these
        compilers as well.
      </li>
      <p><small>
        NOTE: dependencies are suppress by setting the make variable <code>MKDEPS</code> to point
        to the do-nothing dependency script, <code>tools/mknulldeps.sh</code>.
        Dependencies can be enabled for the Windows native GCC compilers by setting
        <code>MKDEPS</code> to point to <code>$(TOPDIR)/tools/mkdeps.sh --winpaths $(TOPDIR)</code>.
      </small></p>
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      <b>Supported Windows Native Toolchains</b>.
      At present, only the Zilog Z16F, z8Encore, and eZ80Acclaim ports use a non-GCC native Windows
      toolchain(the Zilog ZDS-II toolchain).
      Support for Windows native GCC toolchains (CodeSourcery and devkitARM) is currently implemented
      for the NXP LPC214x, STMicro STR71x, and Luminary LMS6918 ARM ports.
      (but could easily be extended to any other GCC-based platform with a small effort).
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    <b>Other Environments?
    Windows Native <code>make</code> + Windows Native Toolchain?</b>
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      <b>Environment Dependencies</b>.
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      The primary environmental dependency of NuttX are (1) GNU make,
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      If you have other platforms that support GNU make or make
      utilities that are compatible with GNU make, then it is very
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      likely that NuttX would work in that environment as well (with some
      porting effort). If GNU make is not supported, then some significant
      modification of the Make system would be required.
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    <p>
     <b>GNUWin32</b>.
      For example, with suitable make system changes, it should be possible to
      use native GNU tools (such as those from
      <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/">GNUWin32</a>)
      to build NuttX.
      However, that environment has not been used as of this writing.
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<ul>
<p><b>C5471 (ARM7)</b>
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  The build for this ARM7 target that includes most of the OS features and
  a broad range of OS tests.  The size of this executable as given by the
  Linux <tt>size</tt> command is (3/9/07):
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<pre>
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  53272     428    3568   57268    dfb4 nuttx
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<p><b>DM320 (ARM9)</b>
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  This build for the ARM9 target includes a significant subset of OS
  features, a filesystem, Ethernet driver, full TCP/IP, UDP and (minimal)
  ICMP stacks (via uIP) and a small network test application: (11/8/07,
  configuration netconfig, examples/nettest)
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   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
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  49472     296    3972   53740    d1ec nuttx
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<p>
  Another build for the ARM9 target includes a minimal OS feature
  set, Ethernet driver, full TCP/IP and (minimal) ICMP stacks, and
  a small webserver: (11/20/07, configuration uipconfig, examples/uip)
</p>
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   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  52040      72    4148   56260    dbc4 nuttx
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<p><b>87C52</b>
  A reduced functionality OS test for the 8052 target requires only
  about 18-19Kb:
<pre>
Stack starts at: 0x21 (sp set to 0x20) with 223 bytes available.

Other memory:
   Name             Start    End      Size     Max
   ---------------- -------- -------- -------- --------
   PAGED EXT. RAM                         0      256
   EXTERNAL RAM     0x0100   0x02fd     510     7936
   ROM/EPROM/FLASH  0x2100   0x6e55   19798    24384
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<p>
  NuttX is available under the highly permissive
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  Other than some fine print that you agree to respect the copyright
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  you should feel absolutely free to use NuttX in any environment and
  without any concern for jeopardizing any proprietary software that
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<p>
   The current NuttX Change Log is available in CVS <a href="http://nuttx.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/nuttx/nuttx/ChangeLog">here</a>.
   ChangeLog snapshots associated with the current release are available below.
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nuttx-4.14 2009-12-02 Gregory Nutt &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;
	* arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_gpio.c - Add support for configure an input GPIO
	  to generate an EXTI interrupt.
	* config/stm3210e-eval/src/up_buttons.c - Add support for on-board buttons.
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	* include/nuttx/rwbuffer.h -- Add generic support for read-ahead buffering
	  and write buffering that can be used in any block driver.
	* include/nuttx/wqueue.h -- Added a generic worker thread that can used to
	  defer processing from an interrupt to a task.
	* include/nuttx/sdio.h -- Defines a generic SD/SDIO interface can can be
	  bound to a MMC/SD driver to provide SDIO-based MMC/SD support.
	* drivers/mmcsd/mmcsd_sdio.c -- Provides a an SDIO-based MMC/SD driver.
	* arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_sdio.c -- Provides an STM32 implementation of
	  the SDIO interface defined in include/nuttx/sdio.h.
	* fs/fs_mount.c -- Correct error handling logic.  If the bind() method
	  fails, then a reserved node is left in the tree.  This causes subsequent
	  attempts to mount at the location to fail (reporting that the node
	  already exists).  This is a problem for block drivers for removable
	  media: The bind method could fail repeatedly until media is inserted.
	* arch/arm/src/stm32/chip.h & stm32_dma.c -- Fixed several definitions
	  that can cause compilation errors when DMA2 is enabled.
	* arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_dma.c - Integrated and debugged STM32 DMA
	  functionality that was added in 0.4.12.
	* configs/stm3210e-eval/usbstorage - Add a configuration to exercise
	  the STM32 with the USB mass storage device class example
	  (examples/usbstorage).
	* configs/mcu123-lpc214x/up_usbstrg - Move LPC-specific code from
	  examples/usbstorage to configs/mcu123-lpc214x.
	* configs/stm321e-eval/up_usbstrg - Add STM32-specific logic for the
	  examples/usbstorage test.
	* arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_usbdev.c - Fix bugs in STM32 USB device-side
	  driver:  (1) Need to disconnect after reset received, (2) Status setup
	  to recover from stall on TX endpoint.
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pascal-0.1.2 2008-02-10 Gregory Nutt &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;

	* Add logic to build and link with the ZDS-II toolchain
	  use with the z16f.
	* Make sure that POFF header structures are aligned
	* Standardized POFF file format to big-endian
	* Break up large switch statements to lower complexity
	  and eliminate a compiler bug
	* Changes so that runtime compiles with SDCC.

buildroot-0.1.7 2009-06-26 &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;

	* configs/avr-defconfig-4.3.3: Added support for AVR to support a NuttX
	  port of the ATmega128.
	* toolchain/nxflat:  Added logic to build NuttX NXFLAT binding support tools
	* toolchain/genromfs:  Added support for the genromfs tool
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	* arch/hc: Adding framework to support m68hc11/12
	* configs/demo9s12ne64: Configuration to support Freescale DEMO9S12NE64
	  development board (MC9S12NE64 m68hcs12 processor).
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	* drivers/mtd/ftl.c - A FLASH translation layer (FTL) has been implemented.
	  This layer will convert a FLASH MTD interface into a block driver that
	  can be used with any file system.  Good performance of this layer will
	  depend upon functioning write buffer support!
	  NOTE: FTL support is untested as of the initial check-in.
	* Numerous minor changes for m68hc12 to eliminate compilation errors and
	  warnings due to the fact that it uses 16-bit integer types and for casts
	  between uint32 (32-bits) and an mc68hc12 pointer (16-bits).
	* sys/types:  Size of off_t and blkcnt_t should not depend on size of
	  int in the architecture;  Removed non-standard type STATUS
	* include/ - Added header files stdint.h, stdbool.h, cxx/cstdint, and
	  cxx/cstdbool
	* Changed ALL references to non-standard fixed-size types (like uint32,
	  ubyte, etc.) to standard types (like uint32_t, uint8_t, etc.) from
	  stdint.h.  Use type bool and {true, false} from stdbool.  This effected
	  most of the files in the system!  Almost all configurations have been
	  re-built and many have been re-verified in order to get confidence in
	  these changes.
	* graphics/ and examples/nx - Fix numerous build errors that have been
	  introduced lately.  NXGL has suffered some bit-rot from not being used
	  in some of the most recent ports.
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	* The misc/pascal NuttX add-on package has been updated to use the new
	  standard types from stdint.h and stdbool.h and re-integrated with NuttX.
	  The released pascal-2.0 will be the first version that contains the
	  compatible changes.
	* arch/arm/src/lm3s/lm3s_ethernet.c - Fixed an important bug in the LM3S
	  ethernet driver:  If full packet is received, the packet-too-big check
	  will fail because it needs to subtract 6 from the packet size (to
	  account for the 2-byte packet length and the 4-byte packet FCS in the
	  FIFO).
	* net/accept.c - Fixed a bad assertion (only happens when debug is enabled).
	* net/send.c net/uip/uip_tcpseqno.c - Fixed a critical error in the TCP/IP
	  logic.  The NuttX port of uIP imcludes logic to send data ahead without
	  waiting for ACKs from the recipient; this greatly improves throughput.
	  However, the packet sequence number was not being updated correctly and,
	  as a result, packets were not be ACKed by the recipient and transfers
	  would sometimes stall.  This is a very important bug fix (in fact, I
	  don't understand how TCP/IP worked at all without this fix???)
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pascal-2.0 2010-xx-xx Gregory Nutt &lt;spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr&gt;

	* Updated to use standard C99 types in stdint.h and
	  stdbool.h.  This change was necessary for compatibility
	  with NuttX-5.0.

buildroot-1.8 2010-xx-xx <spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr>
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	* configs/cortexm3-defconfig-4.3.3: Added support for NuttX NXFLAT
	  tools.
	* configs/arm7tdmi-defconfig-4.3.3: Update to arm7tdmi-defconfig-4.2.4.
	  Also builds NuttX NXFLAT tools.
	* configs/m68hc12-defconfig-4.3.3: Update to m68ch11-defconfig.
	* configs/m68hc12-defconfig-3.4.6: There are problems building GCC
	  4.3.3 for the hc12.
	* configs/m32c-defconfig-4.2.4: Added genromfs
	* configs/m32c-defconfig-4.3.3: Update to m32c-defconfig-4.2.4
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<ul>
<p>
   The current list of NuttX <i>Things-To-Do</i> in CVS <a href="http://nuttx.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/nuttx/nuttx/TODO">here</a>.
   A snapshot of the <i>To-Do</i> list associated with the current release are available <a href="TODO.txt">here</a>.
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  <li>Cygwin is a trademark of Red Hat, Incorporated.</li>
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  <li>LPC2148 is a trademark of NXP Semiconductors.</li>
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