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NuttX TODO List (Last updated April 2 2011)
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nuttx/
(5) Task/Scheduler (sched/)
(1) On-demand paging (sched/)
(2) Memory Managment (mm/)
(1) Signals (sched/, arch/)
(1) pthreads (sched/)
(1) C++ Support
(5) Binary loaders (binfmt/)
(15) Network (net/, drivers/net)
(2) USB (drivers/usbdev, drivers/usbhost)
(5) Libraries (lib/)
(13) File system/Generic drivers (fs/, drivers/)
(2) Graphics subystem (graphics/)
(1) Pascal add-on (pcode/)
(1) Documentation (Documentation/)
(5) Build system / Toolchains
(7) Linux/Cywgin simulation (arch/sim)
(4) ARM (arch/arm/)
(1) ARM/C5471 (arch/arm/src/c5471/)
(3) ARM/DM320 (arch/arm/src/dm320/)
(2) ARM/i.MX (arch/arm/src/imx/)
(4) ARM/LPC17xx (arch/arm/src/lpc17xx/)
(7) ARM/LPC214x (arch/arm/src/lpc214x/)
(2) ARM/LPC313x (arch/arm/src/lpc313x/)
(3) ARM/STR71x (arch/arm/src/str71x/)
(4) ARM/LM3S6918 (arch/arm/src/lm3s/)
(4) ARM/STM32 (arch/arm/src/stm32/)
(0) Intel x86 (arch/x86)
(4) 8051 / MCS51 (arch/8051/)
(2) Hitachi/Renesas SH-1 (arch/sh/src/sh1)
(4) Renesas M16C/26 (arch/sh/src/m16c)
(8) z80/z8/ez80 (arch/z80/)
(8) z16 (arch/z16/)
(1) mc68hc1x (arch/hc)
apps/
(5) Network Utilities (apps/netutils/)
(4) NuttShell (NSH) (apps/nshlib)
(3) Other Applications & Tests (apps/examples/)
o Task/Scheduler (sched/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: When a tasks exits, shouldn't all of its child pthreads also be
terminated?
Status: Open
Priority: Medium, required for good emulation of process/pthread model.
Description: atexit() supports registration of one function called on exit().
Should task_delete() also cause atexit() function to be called?
Status: Open
Priority: Low, task_delete() is non-standard and its behavior is
unspecified.
Description: Implement sys/mman.h and functions
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: Implement sys/wait.h and functions. Consider implementing wait,
waitpid, waitid. At present, a parent has no information about
child tasks.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: Several APIs do not set errno. Need to review all APIs.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium, required for standard compliance (but makes the
code bigger)
o On-demand paging (sched/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: On-demand paging has recently been incorporated into the RTOS.
The design of this feature is described here:
http://www.nuttx.org/NuttXDemandPaging.html.
As of this writing, the basic feature implementation is
complete and much of the logic has been verified. The test
harness for the feature exists only for the NXP LPC3131 (see
configs/ea3131/pgnsh and locked directories). There are
some limitations of this testing so I still cannot say that
the feature is fully functional.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium-Low
o Other core OS logic
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: get_environ_ptr() (sched/sched_getenvironptr.c) is not implemented.
The representation of the the environment strings selected for
NutX is not compatible with the operation. Some significant
re-design would be required to implement this funcion and that
effort is thought to be not worth the result.
Status: Open
Priority: Low -- There is no plan to implement this.
Description: timer_getoverrun() (sched/timer_getoverrun.c) is not implemented.
Status: Open
Priority: Low -- There is no plan to implement this.
o Memory Managment (mm/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: Add an option to free all memory allocated by a task when the
task exits. This is probably not be worth the overhead for a
deeply embedded system.
There would be complexities with this implementation as well
because often one task allocates memory and then passes the
memory to another: The task that "owns" the memory may not
be the same as the task that allocated the memory.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium/Low, a good feature to prevent memory leaks but would
have negative impact on memory usage and code size.
Description: Current logic adapts size_t for 16-bit address machines vs.
32-bit address machines. But a small memory option should also
be provided so that the small offset option can be used with
32-bit machines that have small RAM memories (like the lpc2148)
Status: Open
Priority: High, a good feature enhancement.
o Signals (sched/, arch/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: 'Standard' signals and signal actions are not supported.
(e.g., SIGINT, SIGCHLD, SIGSEGV, etc).
Status: Open
Priority: Low, required by standards but not so critical for an
embedded system.
o pthreads (sched/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: pthread_cancel(): Should implement cancellation points and
pthread_testcancel()
Status: Open
Priority: Low, probably not that useful
o C++ Support
^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: Need to call static constructors
Status: Open
Priority: Low, depends on toolchain. Call to gcc's built-in static
constructor logic will probably have to be performed by
user logic in user_start().
o Binary loaders (binfmt/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: Not all of the NXFLAT test under apps/examples/nxflat are working.
Most simply do not compile yet. tests/mutex runs okay but
outputs garbage on completion.
Status: Open
Priority: High
Description: The ARM up_getpicbase() does not seem to work. This means
the some features like wdog's might not work in NXFLAT modules.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium-High
Description: At present, all .rodata must be put into RAM. There is a
tentative design change that might allow .rodata to be placed
in FLASH (see Documentation/NuttXNxFlat.html).
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: If the function pointer to a statically defined function is
taken, then GCC generates a relocation that cannot be handled
by NXFLAT. There is a solution described in Documentataion/NuttXNxFlat.html,
by that would require a compiler change (which we want to avoid).
The simple workaround is to make such functions global in scope.
Status: Open
Priority: Low (probably will not fix)
Description: In the NXFLAT symbol tables... Using a 32-bit hash value instead
of a string to identify a symbol should result in a smaller footprint.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
o Network (net/, drivers/net)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: Should implement SOCK_RAW, SOCK_PACKET
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: uIP polling issues / Multiple network interface support:
(1) Current logic will not support multiple ethernet drivers.
Each driver should poll on TCP connections connect on the
network supported by the driver; UDP polling should respond
with TX data only if the UDP packet is intended for the
the network supported by the driver.
(2) If there were multiple drivers, polling would occur at
double the rate. Fix by using bound IP address in TCP
connection (lipaddr) and verifying that it is in the subnet
served by the driver.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium, The feature is not important, but it is important
for NuttX to resolve the architectural issues.
Description: Sendoto() and multiple network interface support:
When polled, would have to assure that the destination IP
is on the subnet served by the polling driver.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium, The feature is not important, but it is important
for NuttX to resolve the architectural issues.
Description: IPv6 support is incomplete. Adam Dunkels has recently announced
IPv6 support for uIP (currently only as part of Contiki). Those
changes need to be ported to NuttX.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: Incoming UDP broadcast should only be accepted if listening on
INADDR_ANY(?)
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: Read-ahead buffers capture incoming TCP data when no user
thread is recv-ing the data. Should add some driver call to
support throttling; when there is no listener for new data, the
driver should be throttled. Perhaps the driver should disable
RX interrupts when throttled and re-anable on each poll time.
recvfrom would, of course, have to un-throttle.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: Need to standardize collection of statistics from network
drivers. apps/nshlib ifconfig command should present
statistics.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: At present, there cannot be two concurrent active TCP send
operations in progress using the same socket. This is because
the uIP ACK logic will support only one transfer at a time. The
solution is simple: A mutex will be needed to make sure that each
send that is started is able to be the exclusive sender until all of
the data to be sent has been ACKed.
Status: Open. There is some temporary logic to apps/nshlib that does
this same fix and that temporary logic should be removed when
send() is fixed.
Priority: Medium-Low. This is an important issue for applications that
send on the same TCP socket from multiple threads.
Description: TCP supports read-ahead buffering to handle the receipt of
TCP/IP packets when there is no read() in place. Should such
capability be useful for UDP? PRO: Would reduce packet loss
and enable support for poll()/select(). CON: UDP is inherently
lossy so why waste memory footprint?
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: poll()/select() is not implemented for UDP sockets because they do
do not support read-ahead buffering. Therefore, there is never
a case where you can read from a UDP socket without blocking.
Status: Open, depends on UDP read-ahead support
Priority: Medium
Description: poll()/select() only works for availability of buffered TCP
read data (when read-ahead is enabled). The way writing is
handled in uIP, all sockets must wait when send and cannot
be notifiied when they can send without waiting.
Status: Open, probably will not be fixed.
Priority: Medium... this does effect porting of applications that expect
different behavior from poll()/select()
Description: sockets do not support all modes except for O_NONBLOCK. Sockets
support only (1) TCP/IP non-blocking read operations when read-ahead
buffering is enabled, and (2) TCP/IP accept() operations when TCP/IP
connection backlog is enabled.
Status: Open
Priority: Low.
Description: I started coding a CrystalLan CS89x0 driver (drivers/net/cs89x0.c),
but never finished it.
Status: Open
Priority: Low unless you need it.
Description: So far, I have not come up with a usable hardware platform to
verify the ENC28J60 Ethernet driver (drivers/net/enc28j60.c).
So it is untested.
Status: Open
Priority: Low unless you need it.
Description: Support for client-side IGMPv2 multicast has been added but not yet
tested (because I don't have a proper environment for multicast testing).
There are most likely errors that need to be fixed at least in the
receipt of multicast packets.
In addition, an ethernet driver that needs to work with the IGMP logic
will have to include additional support for multicast MAC address tables.
Status: Open
Priority: Low unless you need it.
Description: The interfaces used to leave/join IGMP multicast groups is non-standard.
RFC3678 (IGMPv3) suggests ioctl() commands to do this (SIOCSIPMSFILTER) but
also status that those APIs are historic. NuttX implements these ioctl
commnands, but is non-standard because: (1) It does not support IGMPv3, and
(2) it looks up drivers by their device name (eg., "eth0") vs IP address.
Linux uses setsockopt() to control multicast group membership using the
IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP options. It also looks up drivers
using IP addresses (It would require additional logic in NuttX to look up
drivers by IP address). See http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Multicast-HOWTO-6.html
Status: Open
Priority: Medium. All standards compatibility is important to NuttX. However, most
the mechanism for leaving and joining groups is hidden behind a wrapper
function so that little of this incompatibilities need be exposed.
o USB (drivers/usbdev, drivers/usbhost)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: There is a workaround for a bug in drivers/usbdev/usbdev_storage.c.
that involves delays. This needs to be redesigned to eliminate these delays.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: drivers/usbhost/usbhost_rtl8187.c is a work in progress. There is no RTL8187
driver available yet. That is a work in progress.
Status: Open
Priority: Low (Unless you need RTL8187 support).
o Libraries (lib/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: The definition of environ in stdlib.h is bogus and will not
work as it should. This is because the underlying
representation of the environment is not an arry of pointers.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: fgets implementation does not use C-buffered I/O, but rather
talks to serial driver directly via read(). It includes VT-100
specific editting commands. This gets should be renamed readlin()
and a more generic fgets() should be implemented.
Status: Open
Priority: Low (unless you are using mixed C-buffered I/O with fgets and
fgetc, for example).
Description: Need some minimal termios support... at a minimum, enough to
switch between raw and "normal" modes to support behavior like
that needed for readline().
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: strftime() and other timing functions do not handle days of the week.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: There is an issue with the way that getopt() handles errors that
return '?'.
1. Does getopt() reset its global variables after returning '?' so
that it can be re-used? That would be required to support where
the caller terminates parsing before reaching the last parameter.
2. Or is the client expected to continue parsing after getopt()
returns '?' and parse until the final parameter?
The current getopt() implementation only supports #2.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
o File system / Generic drivers (fs/, drivers/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: Implement chmod(), truncate().
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: FAT: long file names
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: The CAN driver is untested. Add a test for the CAN driver.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: At present, the CAN driver does not support the poll() method.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: There is no way to remove a FIFO or PIPE created in the
psuedo filesystem. Once created, they persist indefinitely
and cannot be unlinked. This is actually a more generic
issue: unlink does not work for anything in the psuedo-
filesystem.
Status: Open, but partially resolved: pipe buffer is at least freed
when there are not open references to the pipe/FIFO.
Priority: Medium
Description: The ROMFS file system does not verify checksums on either
volume header on on the individual files.
Status: Open
Priority: Low. I have mixed feelings about if NuttX should pay a
performance penalty for better data integrity.
Description: The simple SPI based MMCS/SD driver in fs/mmcsd does not
yet handle multiple block transfers.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium-Low
Description: At present, mmap() only works with file descriptors associated
with a ROMFS file system. Generalize this logic so that if
mmap is not supported by the file system or block driver, it
will allocate memory and copy the file into RAM. This would
need some centralized logic so that the memory region would
be shared on later mmap()'s on the same inode. Reference counting
would be required so that the multiply mmap()'ed region persists
until the last munmap().
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: Block driver read-ahead buffer and write buffer support is
implemented but not yet tested.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: The drivers/mmcsd/mmcsd_sdio.c driver has hooks in place to
support read-ahead buffering and write buffering, but the logic
is incomplete and untested.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: ENC28J60 driver is complete, but untested (I still haven't got
a good ENC28J60 test platform).
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: Time stamping is no implemented in the NuttX FA file system.
See the following functions in fs/fat/fs_fat32util.c:
fat_systime2fattime() and fat_fattime2systime()
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
o Graphics subystem (graphics/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: If CONFIG_NX is enabled, the build fails the first time
saying that there is "No rule to make target..." for one of the
auto-generated graphics files. This is a nuisance, but if you
simply build again (with the source files already auto-generated)
the problem does not reoccur.
Status: Open
Priority: Low, the work-around is simple
Description: Testing of all APIs is not complete. See
http://nuttx.sourceforge.net/NXGraphicsSubsystem.html#testcoverage
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: The apps/examples/nx test using lcd/p14201.c and the configs/lm3s6965-ek
configuration shows two single pixel-wide anomalies. One along
column zero is clearly caused by the NX windowing logic. It is
not certain if these are consequences of the 4bpp logic or if these
are anomalies that have always been in NX, but are only visible
now at the low resolution of the p14201 LCD (128x96).
Status: Open
Priority: Low (unless you need the p13201 then it is certainly higher).
o Pascal Add-On (pcode/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: Need APIs to verify execution of P-Code from memory buffer.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: Loader and object format may be too large for some small
memory systems. Consider ways to reduce memory footprint.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
o Documentation (Documentation/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: Need to document which APIs can be used in interrupt
handlers (like mq_send and sem_post) and which cannot.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
o Build system
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: configs/pjrc-8051 should be configs/pjrc-87c52
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: Dependencies do not work correctly under configs/<board>/src
(same as arch/<arch>/src/board).
Status: Open
Priority: Medium (maybe higher for z80 target)
Description: Need a NuttX configuration tool. The number of configuration
settings has become quite large and difficult to manage manually.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium-low
Description: At present, NuttX builds only under Linux or Cygwin.
Investigate the possibility of a native Windows build using
something like the GNUWin32 tools (coreutils+make+grep+sed+uname).
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Decription: Build of NX fails with gcc-4.2.2. When generating C files using
arm-elf-gcc -E, the CPP fails when using -isystem. Works fine with
older compilers. My work around for now is to use an older compiler
for the CPP definition in the configuration Make.defs file, do
make context, restore the original Make.defs, and then make.
Status: Open. This may not be a real issue. I have not seen this
happen lately so it may have nothing to do with GCC.
Priority: High if you are using NX and a newer compiler.
Description: It has been reported to me that in some environments, the int8_t
type is unsigned (0-255). The uint8_t type is based on type char
and char may or may not be treated as a signed value by your compiler.
Two options: (1) in arch/<cpu>/include/<cpu>/types.h, try typedef'ing
int8_t as 'signed char', (2) for GCC, you should be able to add the
compiler option -fsigned-char to your CFLAGS in Make.defs.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
o Linux/Cywgin simulation (arch/sim)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: The simulated serial driver has some odd behavior. It
will stall for a long time on reads when the C stdio buffers are
being refilled. This only effects the behavior of things like
fgetc(). Workaround: Set CONFIG_STDIO_BUFFER_SIZE=0, suppressing
all C buffered I/O.
Status: Open
Priority: Low (because the simulator is only a test/development platform)
Description: Simulator does not build correctly on 64-bit machines. Two
issues:
1) It saves addresses in 32-bit types and these fail when cast
to pointers on a 64-bit host.
2) up_setjmp.S does not build
Status: Open
Priority: Medium and increasing (as 32-bit hosts gradually disappear). NOTE
is it possible to work-around this limitation by building the sim
target for 32-bit operation on a 64-bit platform. Modify the
Make.defs file in the appropriate places so that -m32 is included
in the CFLAGS and -m32 and -melf_386 are included in the LDFLAGS.
See the patch 0001-Quick-hacks-to-build-sim-nsh-ostest-on-x86_64-as-32-.patch
that can be found at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nuttx/files.
Description: I never did get networking to work on the sim Linux target. On Linux,
it tries to use the tap device (/dev/net/tun) to emulate an Ethernet
NIC, but I never got it correctly integrated with the NuttX networking.
NOTE: On Cygwin, the build uses the Cygwin WPCAP library and is, at
least, partially functional (it has never been rigorously tested).
Status: Open
Priority: Low (unless you want to test networking features on the simulation).
Description: There is an X11-based framebuffer driver that you can use exercise
the NuttX graphics subsystem on the simulator. But I am not much
of an X11 programmer so I did not use X11 autoconfiguration stuff.
As a result, it builds on old X11 installations, but not on current
versions.
Status: Open
Priority: Low (unless you want to test graphics features on the simulation).
Description: Since the simulation is not pre-emptible, you can't use round-robin
scheduling (no time slicing). Currently, the timer interrupts are
"faked" during IDLE loop processing and, as a result, there is no
task pre-emption because there are no asynchrous events. This could
probably be fixed if the "timer interrupt" were driver by Linux
signals. NOTE: You would also have to implement irqsave() and
irqrestore() to block and (conditionally) unblock the signal.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Descripion: The NSH example has some odd behaviors. Mult-tasking -- for example,
execution of commands in background -- does not work normally. This
is due to the fact that NSH uses the system standard input for the
console. This means that the simulation is actually "frozen" all of
the time when NSH is waiting for input and background commands never
get the chance to run.
Status: Open
Priority: This will not be fixed. This is the normal behavior in the current
design of the simulator. "Real" platforms will behave correctly
because NSH will "sleep" when it waits for console inpu and other
tasks can run freely.
Description: In the NSH example, the host HOST echoes each command so after you
you enter a command, the command is repeated on the next line. This
is an artifact of the simulator only.
Status: Open
Priority: This will not be fixed. This is the normal behavior in the current
design of the simulator. "Real" platforms will behave correctly.
o ARM (arch/arm/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: ARM interrupt handling performance could be improved in some
ways. One easy way is to use a pointer to the context save
area in current_regs instead of using up_copystate so much.
see handling of 'current_regs" in arch/arm/src/cortexm3/* for
examples of how this might be done.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: The ARM and Cortex-M3 interrupt handlers restores all regisers
upon return. This could be improved as well: If there is no
context switch, then the static registers need not be restored
because they will not be modified by the called C code.
(see arch/sh/src/sh1/sh1_vector.S for example)
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: The Cortex-M3 user context switch logic uses SVCall instructions.
This user context switching time could be improved by eliminating
the SVCalls and developing assembly language implementations
of the context save and restore logic.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: The ARM interrupt handling (arch/arm/src/arm/up_vectors.S) returns
using 'ldmia sp, {r0-r15}^' My understanding is that this works
fine because everything is in kernel-mode. In an operating model
where applications run in user mode and interrupts/traps run in
kernel-mode, I think that there is a problem with this.
Status: Open
Priority: Low until I get around to implement security for the ARM platform.
o ARM/C5471 (arch/arm/src/c5471/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: UART re-configuration is untested and conditionally compiled out.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium. ttyS1 is not configured, but not used; ttyS0 is configured
by the bootloader
o ARM/DM320 (arch/arm/src/dm320/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: config/ntos-dm320: It seems that when a lot of debug statements
are added, the system no longer boots. This is suspected to be
a stack problem: Making the stack bigger or removing arrays on
the stack seems to fix the problem (might also be the
bootloader overwriting memory)
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: A USB device controller driver was added but has never been tested.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: A framebuffer "driver" was added, however, it remains untested.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: In order to use the framebuffer "driver" additional video encoder
logic is required to setupt composite video output or to interface
with an LCD.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium (high if you need to use the framebuffer driver)
o ARM/i.MX (arch/arm/src/imx/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: The basic port of the i.MX1 architecuture is underway. The port
is incomplete (as of this writing, is still lacks a timer, interrupt
decoding, USB, network) and untested.
Status: Open (and in work)
Priority: Medium (high if you need i.MX1/L support)
Description: SPI methods are not thread safe. Needs a semaphore to protect from re-entrancy.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium -- Will be very high if you do SPI access from multiple threads.
o ARM/LPC17xx (arch/arm/src/lpc17xx/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: USB DMA not fully implemented. Partial logic is in place but it is
fragmentary and bogus. (Leveraged from the lpc214x)
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: a) At present the SSP driver is polled. Should it be interrupt driven?
Look at arch/arm/src/imx/imx_spi.c -- that is a good example of an
interrupt driven SPI driver. Should be very easy to part that architecture
to the LPC.
b) See other SSP (SPI) driver issues listed under ARM/LPC214x. The LPC17xx
driver is a port of the LPC214x driver and probably has the same issues.
b) Other SSP driver improvements: Add support for multiple devices on the
SSP bus, use DMA data transfers
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: An LCD driver for the Olimex LPC1766STK has been developed. However, that
driver is not yet functional on the board: The backlight comes on, but
nothing is visible on the display.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium-Low (unless you need the display on the LPC1766STK!)
Description: SLIP (Configuration olimex-lpc1766stk/slip-httpd) only works with VERBOSE
debug disabled. For some reason, certain debug statements hang(?).
Also, this example does not use UART1's hardware flow control. UART1
hardware flow control is partially implemented but does not behave as
expected. Hardware flow control needs a little more work.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
o ARM/LPC214x (arch/arm/src/lpc214x/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: Should use Vector Interrupts
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: USB DMA not fully implemented. Partial logic is in place but it is
fragmentary and bogus.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: USB Serial Driver reports wrong error when opened before the
USB is connected (reports EBADF instead of ENOTCONN)
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: At present the SPI driver is polled. Should it be interrupt driven?
Look at arch/arm/src/imx/imx_spi.c -- that is a good example of an
interrupt driven SPI driver. Should be very easy to part that architecture
to the LPC.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: SPI methods are not thread safe. Needs a semaphore to protect from re-entrancy.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium -- Will be very high if you do SPI access from multiple threads.
Description: At present the SPI driver is polled -AND- there is a rather large, arbitrary,
delay in one of the block access routines. The purpose of the delay is to
avoid a race conditions. This begs for a re-design -OR- at a minimum, some
optimiation of the delay time.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Desription: I am unable to initialize a 2Gb SanDisk microSD card (in adaptor) on the
the mcu123 board. The card fails to accept CMD0. Doesn't seem like a software
issue, but if anyone else sees the problem, I'd like to know.
Related: Fixes were recently made for the SDIO-based MMC/SD driver to
support 2Gb cards -- the blocksize was forced to 512 in all cases. The SPI-
based driver may also have this problem (but I don't think this would have
andything to do with CMD0).
Status: Open
Priority: Uncertain
Description: Possible errors in USB device driver reported "I suspect there's a few
issues in the lpc214x USB driver - in particular it doesn't stall both
in/out endpoints for unsupported setup requests and it doesn't call
CLASS_DISCONNCET on a USB reset - I don't have any access to that hardware
so can't pursue it really."
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
o ARM/LPC313x (arch/arm/src/lpc313x/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: arch/arm/src/lpc313x/lpc313x_spi.c contains logic that is specific to the
Embedded Artist's ea3131 board. We need to abstract the assignment of SPI
chip selects and logic SPI functions (like SPIDEV_FLASH). My thoughts are:
- Remove lpc313x_spiselect and lpc313x_spistatus from lpc313x_internal.h
- Remove configs/ea3131/src/up_spi.c
- Add configurations CONFIG_LPC3131x_CSOUT1DEV, CONFIG_LPC3131x_CSOUT2DEV,
and CONFIG_LPC3131x_CSOUT3DEV that maps the lpc313x SPI chip selects to
SPIDEV_* values.
- Change arch/arm/src/lpc313x/lpc313x_spi.c to use those configuration
settings.
Status: Open
Priority: High if you want to use SPI on any board other than the ea3131.
Description: arch/arm/src/lpc313x/lpc313x_spi.c may or may not be functional. It was
reported to be working, but I was unable to get it working with the
Atmel at45dbxx serial FLASH driver.
Status: Open
Priority: High if you need to use SPI.
o ARM/STR71x (arch/arm/src/str71x/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: Verify SPI driver and integrate with MMC support. This effort is stalled
at the moment because the slot on the Olimex board only accepts MMC card;
I have no MMC cards, only SD cards which won't fit into the slot.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: Develop a USB driver and integrate with existing USB serial and storage
class drivers.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: SPI methods are not thread safe. Needs a semaphore to protect from re-entrancy.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium -- Will be very high if you do SPI access from multiple threads.
o ARM/LM3S6918 (arch/arm/src/lm3s/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: Still need to implement I2C
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: Should terminate SSI/SPI transfer if an Rx FIFO overrun occurs.
Right now, if an Rx FIFO overrun occurs, the SSI driver hangs.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium, If the transfer is properly tuned, then there should not
be any Rx FIFO overruns.
Description: Dependency generation is currently disabled when a Windows native
toolchain is used. I think that the only issue is that all of the
Windows dependencies needed to be quoted in the Make.dep files.
Status: Open
Priority: Low -- unless some dependency-related build issues is discovered.
Description: There are some lingering bugs in THTTPD, possibly race conditions. This
is covered above under Network Utilities, but is duplicated here
to point out that the LM3S suffers from this bug.
Status: Open.
UPDATE: I have found that increasing the size of the CGI program stack
from 1024 to 2048 (on the LM3S) eliminates the problem. So the most
likely cause is probably a stack overflow, not a hard sofware bug.
Priority: Probably Low
o ARM/STM32 (arch/arm/src/stm32/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: NOR Flash driver with FTL layer to support a file system.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description A USB device-side driver is in place but not well tested. At
present, the apps/examples/usbserial test sometimes fails. The situation
that causes the failure is:
- Host-side of the test started after the target side sends the
first serial message.
The general failure is as follows:
- The target message pends in the endpoint packet memory
- When the host-side of the test is stated, it correctly
reads this pending data.
- an EP correct transfer interrupt occurs and the next
pending outgoing message is setup
- But, the host never receives the next message
If the host-side driver is started before the first target message
is sent, the driver works fine.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium-High
Description: FSMC external memory support is untested
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: DMA logic needs to be extended. DMA2, Channel 5, will not work
because the DMA2 channels 4 & 5 share the same interrupt.
Status: Open
Priority: Low until someone needs DMA1, Channel 5 (ADC3, UART4_TX, TIM5_CH1, or
TIM8_CH2).
o Intel x86 (arch/x86)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
o 8051 / MCS51 (arch/8051/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: Current status:
- Basic OS task management seems OK
- Fails when interrupts enabled. The stack pointer is around
0x6e before the failure occurs. It looks like some issue
when the stack pointer moves from the directly to indirectly
addressable region (0x80 boundary).
- Work on the 8052 is temporarily on hold
Status: Open
Priority: Low, 8051 is a tough platform because of the tiny stack.
Description: Use timer 0 as system timer. Timer 2 is needed for second UART.
Logic is implemented, but there needs to be a system
configuration to change the ticks-per-second value to match the
timer interrupt rate
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: During build, there are several integer overflows reported:
sched/gmtime_r.c aroud lines 184 and 185
sched/clock_initialize.c at line 107
sched/pthread_create.c at 330
apps/examples/ostest/barrier.c around lines 53 and 74
apps/examples/ostest/sighand.c at 225 and 244
driver/serial.c in usleep calls around 347 and 354
Status: Open. Update: These were reviewed during the hcs12 port. The
hcs12 also has 16-bit integer types (if -mshort is in the CFLAGS).
I believe that the warnings in most of the above have been fixed
but this has not been verified on this platform).
Priority: Medium
Description Global data is not being initialized. Logic like that of SDCCs
crt0*.s needs to be incorporated into the system boot logic
Status: Open
Priority: Low -- only because there as so many other issues with 8051
o Hitachi/Renesas SH-1 (arch/sh/src/sh1)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: There are instabilities that make the SH-1 port un-usable. The
nature of these is not understood; the behavior is that certain SH-1
instructions stop working as advertised. I have seen the following
examples:
412b jmp @r1 - Set a return address in PR, i.e., it behaved like
410b jsr @r1. Normally 412b works correctly, but in the failure
condition, it reliably set the PR.
69F6 mov.l @r15+,r9 - wrote the value of R1 to @r15+. This behavior
does not correspond to any known SH-1 instruction
This could be a silicon problem, some pipeline issue that is not
handled properly by the gcc 3.4.5 toolchain (which has very limit
SH-1 support to begin with), or perhaps with the CMON debugger. At
any rate, I have exhausted all of the energy that I am willing to put
into this cool old processor for the time being.
Status: Open
Priority: Low -- because the SH-1, SH7032, is very old and only of historical
interest.
Description: arch/sh has been restructured to support M16C. Need to verify that
SH-1 still builds.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: The M16C target cannot be built. The GNU m16c-elf-ld link fails with
the following message:
m32c-elf-ld: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.19 assertion fail /home/Owner/projects/nuttx/buildroot/toolchain_build_m32c/binutils-2.19/bfd/elf32-m32c.c:482
Where the reference line is:
/* If the symbol is out of range for a 16-bit address,
we must have allocated a plt entry. */
BFD_ASSERT (*plt_offset != (bfd_vma) -1);
No workaround is known at this time.
Status: Open
Priority: High -- this is a show stopper for M16C.
o Renesas M16C/26 (arch/sh/src/m16c)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: Coding of the initial port is complete, but is untested.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: Serial drivers were developed for the M16C, however, the SKP16C26
StarterKit has no serial connectors.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: Should implement SPI, I2C, Virual EEPROM, FLASH, RTC drivers
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
o z80/z8/ez80 (arch/z80)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: The SDCC version the same problems with integer overflow during
compilation as described for pjrc-8051. At typical cause is code like
usleep(500*1000) which exceeds the range of a 16-bit integer.
Status: See pjrc-8051. These have probably been fixed but have not yet
been verified on these platforms.
Priority: See pjrc-8051
Description: The simulated Z80 serial console (configs/z80sim/src/z80_serial.c +
driver/serial.c) does not work. This is because there are
no interrupts in the simulation so there is never any serial
traffic.
Status: Open
Priority: Low -- the simulated console is not critical path and the designs
to solve the problem are complex.
Description: ZDS-II Librarian complains that the source for the .obj file
is not in the library.
Status: Open
Priority: Low, thought to be cosmetic. I think this is a consequence of
replacing vs. inserting the library.
Description: The ZDS-II compiler (version 4.10.1) fails with an internal error
while compiler mm/mm_initialize. This has been reported as
incident 81509.
I have found the following workaround that I use to build for the
time being:
--- mm/mm_initialize.c.SAVE 2008-02-13 08:06:46.833857700 -0600
+++ mm/mm_initialize.c 2008-02-13 08:07:26.367608900 -0600
@@ -94,8 +94,11 @@
{
int i;
+#if 0 /* DO NOT CHECK IN */
CHECK_ALLOCNODE_SIZE;
CHECK_FREENODE_SIZE;
+#endif
/* Set up global variables */
Status: Open
Priority: High
Description: Add support for prioritized ez8 interrupts. Currently logic supports
only nominal interrupt priority.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: The z8Encore! port has only been verified on the ZDS-II instruction
set simulator.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: Upgrade to the ZDS-II Z8Encore! 4.11.0 toolchain
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: The XTRS target (configs/xtrs) has a clean problem. The clean
rule removes .asm files. This works because there are no .asm
files except in sub-directories that are provided from 'make clean' --
except for XTRS: It has a .asm file in its src/ directory that
gets removed everytime clean is performd.
Status: Open
Priority: High if you happen to be working with XTRS.
Description: A "generic" SPI and I2C drivers have been coded for the eZ80Acclaim!
However, these remains untested since I have no SPI or I2C devices for
the board (yet).
Status: Open
Priority: Med
Description: SPI methods are not thread safe. Needs a semaphore to protect from re-entrancy.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium -- Will be very high if you do SPI access from multiple threads.
Description: A "generic" I2C driver has been coded for the eZ8Encore!
However, this remains untested since I have no I2C devices for
the board (yet).
Status: Open
Priority: Med
o z16 (arch/z16)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: ZDS-II Librarian complains that the source for the .obj file
is not in the library.
Status: Open
Priority: Low, thought to be cosmetic. I think this is a consequence of
replacing vs. inserting the library.
Description: When the interrupt-driven serial driver is used, the system
hangs. This is because of TX ready (TRDE) interrupts that
get lost while interrupts are disabled. The existing
serial driver appears to be limited to hardware with a
latching, level-sensitive TX ready interrupt.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium. A polled, write-only serial driver is used in the
interim for system testing.
Description: The system delays do not appear to be correct with the
apps/examples/ostest/timedmqueue.c test.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium-High
Description: At present, the z16f port does not run properly when CONFIG_DEBUG
is disabled: The obvious symptom is that there is no printf()
output. I have isolated with problem to errors in optimization.
With -reduceopt on the command line, I can get the printf output.
However, there are still errors in the compiled code -- specifically
in sched/timer_create.c.
I have submitted a bug report to ZiLOG for this (support incident
81400). You can see the status of the bug report (and lots more
technical detail) here:
http://support.zilog.com/support/incident/incident_support.asp?iIncidentId=81400&iSiteId=1&chLanguageCode=ENG
Summary of ZiLOG analysis: "This is a ZNEO compiler problem. ... [a] workaround
is to replace:
if ( !timerid || (clockid != 0) )
By:
if ((clockid != 0) || !timerid)"
Status: Open
Priority: Medium-High
Description: The pascal add-on does not work with the z16f (that is
configuration z16f2800100zcog/pashello). This appears to be
another ZDS-II error: when executing the instruction
SYSIO 0, WRITESTR a large case statement is executed. This
involves a call into the ZiLOG runtime library to __uwcase().
__uwcase is passed a pointer to a structure containing jump
information. The cause of the failure appears to be that
the referenced switch data is bad.
This is submited as ZiLOG support incident 81459.
Summary of ZiLOG analysis: "This is a ZNEO run time library problem.
One workaround is to replace the line 58 in uwcase.asm
From:
ADD R9,#4 ; Skip handler
To:
ADD R9,#2 ; Skip handler
And add uwcase.asm to the project.
If the customer does not want to modify uwcase.asm then the other
workaround is to add a dummy case and make it same as default:
case 0x8000:
default:
This will make sure that uwcase is not called but ulcase is called."
Status: Open. Due to licensing issues, I cannot include the modified
uwcase in the NuttX code base.
Priority: Medium
Description: Add support to maintain SPOV in context switching. This
improvement will provide protection against stack overflow
and make a safer system solution.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: Add support for prioritized interrupts. Currently logic supports
only nominal interrupt priority.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: The file drivers/mmcsd/mmcsd_sdio.c generates an internal compiler
error like:
mmcsd\mmcsd_sdio.c
Internal Error(0503) On line 2504 of "MMCSD\MMCSD_SDIO.C"
File <c3>, Args(562,46)
Status: Open. Recommended workaround: remove mmcsd_sdio.c from
drivers/mmcsd/Make.defs. There is no SDIO support for the Z16 anyway
Priority: Low
o mc68hc1x (arch/hc)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: There is no script for building in banked mode (more correctly, there
is a script, but logic inside the script has not yet been implemented).
It would be necessary to implement banked mode to able to access more
the 48Kb of FLASH.
Status: Open.
Priority: Medium/Low
o Network Utilities (apps/netutils/)
Description: One critical part of netutils/ apps is untested: The uIP
resolver in netutils/resolv. The webclient code has been
tested on host using gethosbyname(), but still depends on the
untested resolve logic.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium, Important but not core NuttX functionality
Description: Port PPP support from http://contiki.cvs.sourceforge.net/contiki/contiki-2.x/backyard/core/net/ppp/
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: Not all THTTPD features/options have been verified. In particular, there is no
test case of a CGI program receiving POST input. Only the configuration of
apps/examples/thttpd has been tested.
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: The first GET received by THTTPD is not responded to. Refreshing the page
from the browser solves the problem and THTTPD works fine after thatg. I
believe that this is the duplicate of another bug: "Outgoing [uIP] packets are dropped
and overwritten by ARP packets if the destination IP has not been mapped to a MAC."
Status: Open
Priority: Medium
Description: If the network is enabled, but THTTPD is not configured, it spews out lots
of pointless warnings. This is kind of annoying and unprofessional; needs to
be fixed someday.
Status: Open. An annoyance, but not a real problem.
Priority: Low
o NuttShell (NSH) (apps/nshlib)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: When the telnetd front end is received, each TCP packet
received causes a prompt (nsh >) to be presented. The
prompt should only be presented when the user enters a
carriage return.
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: The wget command has been incorporated into NSH, however
it is still untested as of this writing (only because I
have not had the correct network setup for the testing
yet). Since wget depends on the also untest uIP resolv/
logic, it is like non-functional.
Status: Open
Priority: Med-High
Description: Add support to NSH to run NXFLAT programs from a ROMFS file system
Status: Open
Priority: Low (enhancement)
Description: Add an ARP command so that we can see the contents of the ARP table.
Status: Open
Priority: Low (enhancement)
o Other Applications & Tests (apps/examples/)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Description: The redirection test (part of examples/pipe) terminates
incorrectly on the Cywgin-based simulation platform (but works
fine on the Linux-based simulation platform).
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Description: examples/wget is untested on the target (it has been tested
on the host, but not in the target using the uIP resolv logic).
Status: Open
Priority: Med
Description: examples/sendmail is untested on the target (it has been tested
on the host, but not on the target.
Status: Open
Priority: Med