From 81521064194bdd7f904bfbfd23b53a91d1a458b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Brownell Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:21:31 -0700 Subject: NEWS: more info There were a few more changes worth mentioning, including support for more JTAG adapters, boundary scan improvements, another NAND driver, and the Win64 stuff. Signed-off-by: David Brownell --- NEWS | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 436dab7d..2cf5d9f3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,12 +5,22 @@ other issues not mentioned here. JTAG Layer: FT2232H (high speed USB) support doesn't need separate configuration + New FT2232H JTAG adapters: Amontec, Olimex, Signalyzer New reset_config options for SRST gating the JTAG clock (or not) TAP declaration no longer requires ircapture and mask attributes - New "post-reset" event handler for TAP-invariant setup code + Scan chain setup should be more robust, with better diagnostics + New TAP events: + "post-reset" for TAP-invariant setup code (TAPs not usable yet) + "setup" for use once TAPs are addressable (e.g. with ICEpick) Overridable Tcl "init_reset" and "jtag_init" procedures + Simple "autoprobe" mechanism to help simplify server setup + +Boundary Scan: + SVF bugfixes ... parsing fixes, better STATE switch conformance + XSVF bugfixes ... be more correct, handle Xilinx tool output Target Layer: + Warn on use of obsolete numeric target IDs New commands for use with Cortex-M3 processors: "cortex_m3 disassemble" ... Thumb2 disassembly (UAL format) "cortex_m3 vector_catch" ... traps certain hardware faults @@ -18,20 +28,28 @@ Target Layer: If you're willing to help debug it VERY EARLY Cortex-A8 and ARMv7A support Updated BeagleBoard.org hardware support + you may need to explicitly "reset" after connect-to-Beagle New commands for use with XScale processors: "xscale vector_table" + ARM + bugfixes to single-stepping Thumb code + ETM: unavailable registers are not listed + ETB, ETM: report actual hardware status ARM9 name change: "arm9 vector_catch" not "arm9tdmi vector_catch" ARM11 single stepping support for i.MX31 bugfix for missing "arm11" prefix on "arm11 memwrite ..." - ETM support - Unavailable registers are not listed + GDB support + gdb_attach command is gone Flash Layer: The lpc2000 driver handles the new NXP LPC1700 (Cortex-M3) chips - New lpc2900 driver for NXP LPC2900 chips (ARM968 based) + New drivers: + lpc2900, for NXP LPC2900 chips (ARM968 based) + mx3_nand, for imx31 New "last" flag for NOR "flash erase_sector" and "flash protect" The "nand erase N" command now erases all of bank N + Speed up davinci_nand by about 3x Board, Target, and Interface Configuration Scripts: Amontec JTAGkey2 support @@ -48,6 +66,8 @@ Documentation: Notes on target source code changes that may help debugging Build and Release: + Clean builds on (32-bit) Cygwin + Clean builds on 64-bit MinGW For more details about what has changed since the last release, see the ChangeLog associated with this source archive. For older NEWS, -- cgit v1.2.3