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authorJoel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>1996-09-30 20:07:07 +0000
committerJoel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>1996-09-30 20:07:07 +0000
commit6ae41fd03524e7021d28e58f6e0af508a9f8cd06 (patch)
tree6642561497395442a828a4893ec862c062bf388f /c/PROBLEMS
parentdata and control addresses were swapped for channel a of the scc (diff)
downloadrtems-6ae41fd03524e7021d28e58f6e0af508a9f8cd06.tar.bz2
updated for Release 3.6.0 to reflect status of posix threads.
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@@ -4,10 +4,17 @@
This is the list of outstanding problems in this release.
-+ The POSIX threads and real time extensions code in this tree are
- not completely tested yet. Some of the POSIX tests do run but none
- of the POSIX code is in the normal build path.
++ The POSIX threads and real-time extensions are tested but this is
+ the first release with them included. They are not enabled by
+ default. The environment variable RTEMS_HAS_POSIX_API must be
+ set to "yes" and the C language macro RTEMS_POSIX_API must be defined
+ before this api is included in the build.
++ The shell scripts runtest and difftest do not work properly when
+ testing "debug" executables.
+
++ AMD 29k port is based on a non-GNU toolset.
+
+ The test spfatal is out of date and as a result will NOT execute
correctly. The addition of POSIX and consequent ongoing initialization
reorganization makes it pointless to fix this until the POSIX support
@@ -29,6 +36,10 @@ This is the list of outstanding problems in this release.
It is better to define these in the linkcmds file. It is also nice
to use the linkcmds file to place overlays for on-board hardware.
++ The __read(), __write(), etc. routines should be renamed __rtems_read(),
+ etc. to avoid potential naming conflicts. [NOTE: This is already
+ necessary under some versions of Linux with the unix port.]
+
+ The __read() system call in all of the BSPs using single
character input/output needs to be smarter. The following
issues need to be addressed: