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| Zephyr Kernel 1.5.0 |
| #################### |
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| The Zephyr Engineering team is glad to announce the release of Zephyr Kernel |
| 1.5.0. This is the first release to follow the 3-month release cadence. |
| This release includes numerous fixes and support for major features. |
| Additional changes include support for new drivers, sensors, and boards. |
| |
| Major enhancements included with the release: |
| |
| - TCP Support |
| - Integration of the Paho MQTT Library support with QoS |
| - Flash Filesystem Support |
| - Integration of the mbedTLS library for encryption |
| - Improved BR/EDR support (for L2CAP, in particular). |
| - Support for the Altera Nios II/f soft CPU architecture |
| |
| A detailed list of changes since v1.4.0 by component follows: |
| |
| Kernel |
| ****** |
| |
| - Added nano_fifo_put_list() APIs, which allows queuing a list of elements |
| on a nanokernel FIFO. |
| - Removed unused memory pool structure field. |
| - Enhanced memory pool code. |
| |
| Architectures |
| ************* |
| |
| - ARM: Updated to include floating point registers. |
| - Altera Nios II/f soft CPU architecture support |
| - Internal Interrupt Controller |
| - Avalon Timer |
| - Avalon JTAG UART (polling mode) as default for qemu-system-nios2, |
| and 16550 UART as default for Altera MAX10. |
| |
| Boards |
| ****** |
| |
| - Added Nios II QEMU board. |
| - Added configuration for Altera MAX10 FPGA. |
| |
| Drivers and Sensors |
| ******************* |
| |
| - Sensors: Added driver for I2C HMC5883L magnetometer. |
| - Sensors: Added driver for I2C TMP112 temperature sensor. |
| - Sensors: Added driver for MAX44009 light sensor. |
| - Sensors: Added driver for LPS25HB. |
| - HAL: Updated QMSI drivers to 1.1 |
| - Added DMA QMSI shim driver. |
| - Added Quark SE USB device controller driver. |
| - Added suspend/resume to QMSI drivers. |
| - Added Guard for critical sections of the QMSI drivers. |
| - Added Zephyr File System API. |
| - Added driver for ENC28J60 Ethernet SPI module. |
| |
| Networking |
| ********** |
| |
| - TCP Support |
| - Connection handling fixes in IP stack. |
| - Allow sending zero length user data IP packet. |
| |
| Network Buffers |
| |
| - New net_buf_simple API for light-weight on-stack (or static) buffers where a |
| net_buf (and its associated pool) is overkill. The net_buf API now uses as |
| an internal implementation detail net_buf_simple. |
| - Add support for network buffer fragmentation. |
| - Add more net_buf big endian helpers. |
| |
| Bluetooth |
| ********* |
| |
| - Multiple fixes & improvements to the nble driver. |
| - New API for dealing with Out of Band data (like the local address). |
| - Various smaller fixes & improvements in many places. |
| |
| Build and Infrastructure |
| ************************ |
| |
| - Added "qemugdb" target to start a local GDB on port 1234. |
| - Added script to filter known issues in the build output. |
| - Sanity: Added "-R" option to build all test with assertions. |
| |
| Libraries |
| ********* |
| |
| - File system: Imported Open Source FAT FS 0.12a code. |
| - Encryption: Imported mbedTLS library. |
| - Encryption: Updated tinycrypt library to 2.0. |
| |
| Documentation |
| ************* |
| |
| - Fixed all the documentations warnings during build. |
| - Fixed several typos, trademarks and grammar. |
| - Moved all the boards documentation to the wiki. |
| - Moved Code Contribution documentation to the wiki. |
| - Added package "ncurses" to the list of requirements. |
| - Updated Mac OS X instructions. |
| |
| Test and Samples |
| **************** |
| |
| - Samples: Replaced old debug macro to use new SYS_LOG macro. |
| - Added TMP112 sensor application. |
| - Added Quark SE power management sample application. |
| - Added DMA memory to memory transfer sample. |
| - Added sample for MAX44009 light sensor. |
| - Added MQTT publisher and subscriber samples. |
| - Added mbedTLS sample client. |
| |
| JIRA Related Items |
| ****************** |
| |
| |
| Stories |
| ======== |
| |
| * :jira:`ZEP-49` - x86: unify separate SysV and IAMCU code |
| * :jira:`ZEP-55` - enable nanokernel test_context on ARC |
| * :jira:`ZEP-58` - investigate use of -fomit-frame-pointer |
| * :jira:`ZEP-60` - irq priorities should be rebased to safe values |
| * :jira:`ZEP-69` - Extend PWM API to use arbitrary unit of time |
| * :jira:`ZEP-203` - clean up APIs for static exceptions |
| * :jira:`ZEP-225` - Add kernel API to put SoC to Deep Sleep (DS) State |
| * :jira:`ZEP-226` - Update sample PMA to support device suspend/resume |
| * :jira:`ZEP-227` - Add kernel API to put SoC to Low Power State (LPS) |
| * :jira:`ZEP-228` - File system interface designed after POSIX |
| * :jira:`ZEP-232` - Support for USB communications device class ACM |
| * :jira:`ZEP-234` - provide a direct memory access (DMA) interface |
| * :jira:`ZEP-243` - Create Wiki Structure for Boards |
| * :jira:`ZEP-249` - nios2: Enable altera_max10 board in sanitycheck runs for nanokernel |
| * :jira:`ZEP-254` - nios2: define NANO_ESF struct and populate _default_esf |
| * :jira:`ZEP-270` - nios2: determine optimal value for PERFOPT_ALIGN |
| * :jira:`ZEP-271` - nios2: enable microkernel & test cases |
| * :jira:`ZEP-272` - nios2: add global pointer support |
| * :jira:`ZEP-273` - nios2: implement flashing scripts |
| * :jira:`ZEP-274` - nios2: document GDB debugging procedure |
| * :jira:`ZEP-275` - nios2: scope support for instruction/data caches |
| * :jira:`ZEP-279` - nios2: demonstrate nanokernel hello world |
| * :jira:`ZEP-285` - FAT filesystem support on top of SPI Flash |
| * :jira:`ZEP-289` - nios2: implement kernel_event_logger |
| * :jira:`ZEP-291` - Driver for the ENC28J60 ethernet device |
| * :jira:`ZEP-304` - Investigate QEMU support for Nios II |
| * :jira:`ZEP-327` - Encryption Libraries needed for Thread support |
| * :jira:`ZEP-340` - TLS/SSL |
| * :jira:`ZEP-354` - Provide a DMA driver for Quark SE core |
| * :jira:`ZEP-356` - DMA device support |
| * :jira:`ZEP-357` - Support for the MAX44009 sensor |
| * :jira:`ZEP-358` - Add support for TMP112 sensor |
| * :jira:`ZEP-412` - Add driver API reentrancy support to RTC driver for LMT |
| * :jira:`ZEP-414` - Add driver API reentrancy support to flash driver |
| * :jira:`ZEP-415` - aaU, I want to use the NATS messaging protocol to send sensor data to the cloud |
| * :jira:`ZEP-416` - MQTT client capability: QoS1, QoS2 |
| * :jira:`ZEP-424` - AON counter driver needs to add driver API reentrancy support |
| * :jira:`ZEP-430` - Add driver API reentrancy support to PWM shim driver |
| * :jira:`ZEP-434` - Driver for HMC5883L magnetometer |
| * :jira:`ZEP-440` - Add driver API reentrancy support to WDT shim driver |
| * :jira:`ZEP-441` - Add driver API reentrancy support to GPIO shim drivers |
| * :jira:`ZEP-489` - nios2: handle unimplemented multiply/divide instructions |
| * :jira:`ZEP-500` - Domain Name System client library |
| * :jira:`ZEP-506` - nios2: support baremetal boot and XIP on Altera MAX10 |
| * :jira:`ZEP-511` - Add Deep Sleep support in PMA |
| * :jira:`ZEP-512` - Add suspend/resume support for some core devices to enable Deep Sleep support in PMA |
| * :jira:`ZEP-541` - Integrate QMSI releases to Zephyr |
| * :jira:`ZEP-567` - netz sample code |
| * :jira:`ZEP-568` - MQTT QoS sample app |
| * :jira:`ZEP-573` - IoT applications must use netz API |
| * :jira:`ZEP-590` - Update Zephyr's tinycrypt to version 2.0 |
| * :jira:`ZEP-643` - Add file system API documentation |
| * :jira:`ZEP-650` - Quark SE: Implement PM reference application |
| * :jira:`ZEP-652` - QMSI shim driver: RTC: Implement suspend and resume callbacks |
| * :jira:`ZEP-655` - QMSI shim driver: PWM: Implement suspend and resume callbacks |
| * :jira:`ZEP-658` - QMSI shim driver: GPIO: Implement suspend and resume callbacks |
| * :jira:`ZEP-659` - QMSI shim driver: UART: Implement suspend and resume callbacks |
| * :jira:`ZEP-662` - QMSI shim driver: Pinmux: Implement suspend and resume callbacks |
| |
| Epic |
| ==== |
| |
| * :jira:`ZEP-278` - Enable Nios II CPU on Altera Max10 |
| * :jira:`ZEP-284` - Flash Filesystem Support |
| * :jira:`ZEP-305` - Device Suspend / Resume infrastructure |
| * :jira:`ZEP-306` - PWM Enabling |
| * :jira:`ZEP-406` - Drivers shall be re-entrant |
| |
| Bug |
| === |
| |
| * :jira:`ZEP-68` - Final image contains duplicates of some routines |
| * :jira:`ZEP-156` - PWM Set Value API behaves incorrectly |
| * :jira:`ZEP-158` - PWM Set Duty Cycle API does not work |
| * :jira:`ZEP-180` - make menuconfig user provided options are ignored at building time |
| * :jira:`ZEP-187` - BLE APIs are not documented |
| * :jira:`ZEP-218` - [drivers/nble][PTS_TEST] Fix responding with the wrong error codes to the Prepare Write Request |
| * :jira:`ZEP-221` - [drivers/nble][PTS_TEST] Implement Execute Write Request handler |
| * :jira:`ZEP-369` - When building out of the tree, application object files are not placed into outdir |
| * :jira:`ZEP-379` - _k_command_stack may be improperly initialized when debugging |
| * :jira:`ZEP-384` - D2000 hangs after I2C communication with BMC150 sensor |
| * :jira:`ZEP-401` - PWM driver turns off pin if off time is 0 in set_values |
| * :jira:`ZEP-423` - Quark D2000 CRB documentation should include instructions to flash bootloader |
| * :jira:`ZEP-435` - Ethernet/IPv4/TCP: ip_buf_appdatalen returns wrong values |
| * :jira:`ZEP-456` - doc: `IDT security` section dissapeared |
| * :jira:`ZEP-457` - doc: contribute/doxygen/typedefs.rst: examples files are broken |
| * :jira:`ZEP-459` - doc: kconfig reference entries in HTML are lacking a title |
| * :jira:`ZEP-460` - doc: document parameters of DEVICE* macros |
| * :jira:`ZEP-461` - Release 1.4.0 has broken the BMI160 sample as well as an application based on it |
| * :jira:`ZEP-463` - Getting started guide "next" link doesn't take you to "Checking Out the Source Code Anonymously" section |
| * :jira:`ZEP-469` - Ethernet/IPv4/TCP: net_receive & net_reply in server mode |
| * :jira:`ZEP-474` - ND: Neighbor cache is not getting cleared |
| * :jira:`ZEP-475` - Issue with timer callback routine: Condition checked is incorrect |
| * :jira:`ZEP-478` - Linux setup docs missing step to install curses development package for Fedora |
| * :jira:`ZEP-497` - Ethernet/IPv4/TCP: failed to get free buffer |
| * :jira:`ZEP-499` - TMP007 driver returns invalid values for negative temperature |
| * :jira:`ZEP-514` - memory corruption in microkernel memory pool defrag() |
| * :jira:`ZEP-516` - Ubuntu setup instructions missing 'upgrade' step |
| * :jira:`ZEP-518` - SPI not working on Arduino101 |
| * :jira:`ZEP-522` - TCP/client-mode: disconnect |
| * :jira:`ZEP-523` - FIFOs defined by DEFINE_FIFO macro use the same memory buffer |
| * :jira:`ZEP-525` - srctree changes are breaking applications |
| * :jira:`ZEP-526` - build "kernel event logger" sample app failed for BOARD=quark_d2000_crb |
| * :jira:`ZEP-534` - Scan for consistent use of "platform/board/SoC" in documentation |
| * :jira:`ZEP-537` - doc: create external wiki page "Maintainers" |
| * :jira:`ZEP-545` - Wrong default value of CONFIG_ADC_QMSI_SAMPLE_WIDTH for x86 QMSI ADC |
| * :jira:`ZEP-547` - [nble] Failed to start encryption after reconnection |
| * :jira:`ZEP-554` - samples/drivers/aon_counter check readme file |
| * :jira:`ZEP-555` - correct libgcc not getting linked for CONFIG_FLOAT=y on ARM |
| * :jira:`ZEP-556` - System hangs during I2C transfer |
| * :jira:`ZEP-565` - Ethernet/IPv4/TCP: last commits are breaking network support |
| * :jira:`ZEP-571` - ARC kernel BAT failed due to race in nested interrupts |
| * :jira:`ZEP-572` - X86 kernel BAT failed: Kernel Allocation Failure! |
| * :jira:`ZEP-575` - Ethernet/IPv4/UDP: ip_buf_appdatalen returns wrong values |
| * :jira:`ZEP-595` - UART: usb simulated uart doesn't work in poll mode |
| * :jira:`ZEP-598` - CoAP Link format filtering is not supported |
| * :jira:`ZEP-611` - Links on downloads page are not named consistently |
| * :jira:`ZEP-616` - OS X setup instructions not working on El Capitan |
| * :jira:`ZEP-617` - MQTT samples build fail because netz.h file missing. |
| * :jira:`ZEP-621` - samples/static_lib: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory |
| * :jira:`ZEP-623` - MQTT sample mqtt.h missing "mqtt_unsubscribe" function |
| * :jira:`ZEP-632` - MQTT fail to re-connect to the broker. |
| * :jira:`ZEP-633` - samples/usb/cdc_acm: undefined reference to 'uart_qmsi_pm_save_config' |
| * :jira:`ZEP-642` - Inconsistent interpretation of pwm_pin_set_values arguments among drivers |
| * :jira:`ZEP-645` - ARC QMSI ADC shim driver fails to read sample data |
| * :jira:`ZEP-646` - I2C fail to read GY2561 sensor when GY2561 & GY271 sensor are attached to I2C bus. |
| * :jira:`ZEP-647` - Power management state storage should use GPS1 instead of GPS0 |
| * :jira:`ZEP-669` - MQTT fail to pingreq if broker deliver topic to client but client doesn't read it. |
| * :jira:`ZEP-673` - Sanity crashes and doesn't kill qemu upon timeout |
| * :jira:`ZEP-679` - HMC5883L I2C Register Read Order |
| * :jira:`ZEP-681` - MQTT client sample throws too many warnings when build. |
| * :jira:`ZEP-687` - docs: Subsystems/Networking section is almost empty |
| * :jira:`ZEP-689` - Builds on em_starterkit fail |
| * :jira:`ZEP-695` - FatFs doesn't compile using Newlib |
| * :jira:`ZEP-697` - samples/net/test_15_4 cannot be built by sanitycheck |
| * :jira:`ZEP-703` - USB sample apps are broken after QMSI update |
| * :jira:`ZEP-704` - test_atomic does not complete on ARC |
| * :jira:`ZEP-708` - tests/kernel/test_ipm fails on Arduino 101 |
| * :jira:`ZEP-739` - warnings when building samples for quark_se devboard |
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| Known issues |
| ============ |
| |
| * :jira:`ZEP-517` - build on windows failed "zephyr/Makefile:869: \*\*\* multiple target patterns" |
| - No workaround, will fix in future release. |
| |
| * :jira:`ZEP-711` - I2c: fails to write with mode fast plus |
| - No workaround need it, there is no support for high speed mode. |
| |
| * :jira:`ZEP-724` - build on windows failed: 'make: execvp: uname: File or path name too long' |
| - No workaround, will fix in future release. |
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| * :jira:`ZEP-467` - Hang using UART and console. |
| - No workaround, will fix in future release. |
| |
| * :jira:`ZEP-599` - Periodic call-back function for periodic REST resources is not getting invoked |
| - No workaround, will fix in future release. |
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| * :jira:`ZEP-471` - Ethernet packet with multicast address is not working |
| - No workaround, will fix in future release. |
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| * :jira:`ZEP-473` - Destination multicast address is not correct |
| - No workaround, will fix in future release. |