Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of Release/4.6

Timestamp:

06/06/07 01:55:44 (17 years ago)

Author:

JoelSherrill

Comment:

Add 4.6.3 and 4.6.2 changes

Release/4.6

@@ -45 +45 @@
  *  Numerous ported third party packages including Python and TCL
  *  Many more improvements including more POSIX support and much reorganization as part of the ongoing effort to move RTEMS to full automake support and separate the CPU and BSP portions of RTEMS.
-= Release 4.6.6 Notes =
+= Release 4.6.6 Changes =
 
 
@@ -76 +76 @@
   *  827/bsps - sparc BSP update
   *  833/bsps - PPC BSPs must not enable FPU across user ISR
-= Release 4.6.4 Notes =
+= Release 4.6.4 Changes =
 
 38 problems reported (ftp://ftp.rtems.com/pub/rtems/4.6.4/PRs-closed-4.6.4) by users were fixed between 4.6.2 and 4.6.4. On a positive note, 3 of these issues were simple improvements in argument parsing, 8 were general improvements in either functionality or cleanup, and 12 were BSP or port specific. These problems can be roughly categorized as follows:
@@ -133 +133 @@
  *  Miscellaneous
   *  PR 350/make_build - Honor user setting LD_PATHS as addition to LDFLAGS
-= =Release 4.6.3 Notes ==
-
-=  ==Release 4.6.2 Notes===
+= Release 4.6.3 Changes =
 
 
-===Release 4.6.1 Notes===
+There was officially no 4.6.3 release. There is a tag in CVS however, the release process was aborted when what we thought at the time was a serious problem was discovered. Since the number was already used, it was just skipped.
+= Release 4.6.2 Changes =
 
+37 problems reported () by users were fixed between 4.6.1 and 4.6.2. On a positive note, 8 of these issues were simple improvements in argument parsing and 7 were general improvements in either functionality or cleanup. These problems can be categorized as follows:
 
-===Release 4.6.0 Notes===
+ *  Improved Parameter Validation (8)
+  *  PR 618/rtems - add null checks to Classic API
+  *  PR 628/rtems - POSIX API sigset of 0 should return EINVAL
+  *  PR 629/rtems - POSIX mqcreate check msg size <= not < 0
+  *  PR 651/rtems - Classic API task ident missing NULL check
+  *  PR 652/rtems - Classic API signal send does not detect empty signal set
+  *  PR 659/rtems - Heap get size does not check for out of range address
+  *  PR 660/rtems - thread stack allocation -- detect math overflows
+  *  PR 661/rtems - object mp name search -- fix invalid dereference
+
+ *  Run-Time Problems (6)
+  *  PR 609/rtems - Race condition between _Thread_Dispatch and _Thread_Tickle_timeslice
+  *  PR 626/networking - avoid printing 0xFFFFF for bytes > 127
+  *  PR 641/rtems - Events sent to a task entering rtems_event_receive() may be lost
+  *  PR 654/rtems - Thread_Control watchdog is not initialized on reuse
+  *  PR 681/misc - stack checker dereferences bad pointer
+  *  PR 692/rtems - Region Manager broken for blocking when empty
+  *  PR 686/networking - if_fxp.c locks up
+
+ *  Improvements (7)
+  *  NO PR -- Added NFS client to Add-On Packages
+  *  PR 605/rtems - mips cpu.c uses C++ style comments
+  *  PR 619/bsps - (mpc6xx) account for latency when updating decrementer clock
+  *  PR 625/networking - small fixes to some libchip/network drivers
+  *  PR 676/networking - /etc/resolv.conf contains NTP instead of DNS servers
+  *  PR 676/misc - rtmonuse.h missing extern C wrapper
+  *  PR 688/bsps - Add libchip support for Motorola MC146818 time-of-day clock
+ *  BSP and Port Specific Problems (8)
+  *  PR 569/bsps - i386/pc386: pcibios.c lacks BusCountPCI() -- see 608
+  *  PR 606/bsps - (PowerPC) Minor enhancements and fixes to PCI support
+  *  PR 607/networking - Adjusted dec21140 PCI config to minimum sane
+  *  PR 608/bsps - Preliminary fix for pc386 BusCountPCI()
+  *  PR 671/bsps - ARM _ISR_Set_level broken
+  *  PR 679/bsps - i386ex linkcmds missing newer sections
+  *  PR 680/bsps - mpc8260ads network driver does not compile
+  *  PR 691/bsps - gen405 has linkcmds buglet
+
+ *  Documentation Issues (3)
+  *  PR 627/doc - document behavior when stacksize < minimum
+  *  PR 682/doc - Getting Started -- minor corrections to PATH and tar examples
+  *  PR 683/doc - User's Guide preface has chapters misnumbered
+
+ *  Tool Issues (2)
+  *  PR 588/tools - Remove m505/roe multilib variant in 3.4.0 patch
+  *  PR 621/tools - powerpc-rtems-gcc >= 3.3.2 lacks -D__USE_INIT_FINI__
+= =Release 4.6.1 Changes ==
+
+=  ==Release 4.6.0 Changes===