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Framework Components 2.10 Release Notes

March 2008

Introduction, Documentation, What's New, Upgrade Info, Compatibility Information, Validation Info, Known Issues, Device Support, Examples, Version Information, Technical Support.


Introduction

The Framework Components are a collection of framework-independent utility libraries which other software frameworks can build upon.

Primary packages in this Framework Components release are briefly described here.

The Framework Components are provided as libraries, without sources.

Additionally, some distributions of this release include an "fctools" directory containing some dependent products for convenience. Products included in this release are:


Documentation

The following documentation is available:

Release notes from previous releases are also available in the relnotes_archive directory.


What's New

The following significant changes have been made since 1.00

2.10 (This Release)


2.00


1.20


1.10


1.03


1.02


1.01



Upgrade Information

The Framework Components packages are available in the "packages/" subdirectory of the product. If you have a previous release of the Framework Components product, you can install this release next to it, and modify your application and/or server builds to use this newer release.

If you're using the DVEVM, this can be done by setting the FC_INSTALL_DIR variable in the Rules.make file at the top of the DVEVM distribution directory.


Device Support

This release supports the following devices:

DMAN3 and ACPY3 can be configured to run on other EDMA3-based devices by configuring DMAN3.qdmaPaRamBase via XDC config scripts or at runtime by setting DMAN3_PARAMS.qdmaPaRamBase. Additionally, when DMAN3 is not configured as an XDC package the application must set the _DMAN3_EDMA3BASE in the linker cmd file as shown in the DMAN3 fastcopytest example.

Applications which use ACPY3 but don't consume DMAN3 as an XDC package will need to define DMAN3_EDMA3BASE symbol in their application linker command file. For DM644x and 2430 this should be set as: _DMAN3_EDMA3BASE = 0x01C00000;

An example of this usage is shown in ti/sdo/fc/dman3/examples/fastcopy/dm6446_bios/fastcopytest.cmd.


Compatibility Information

The details provided below describe each package's compatibility with the previous release (2.00).

Note, the Configuration Reference Guide contains further details about each package.

The following packages are being introduced in this release, and therefore have no compatibility with previous releases.

If migrating from a release prior to FC 2.00, consult previous releases available in the relnotes_archive directory.

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:


Validation

This release was built and validated against using the following components:

C64+

C55

ARM 9 (DMAN3 only)


Known Issues

ACPY3


Examples

Framework Components examples and instructions are located in the "examples" directory.


Version Information

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. framework_components_2_10.

Subsequent releases of patch upgrades will be identified by the patch number, ex. FC 2.10.01 with directory framework_components_2_10_01. Typically, these patches only include critical bug fixes.


Technical Support

For technical support, contact softwaresupport@ti.com

Check the following web site for updates: https://www-a.ti.com/downloads/sds_support/targetcontent/FC/index.html


Last updated: March 6, 2008