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Altera_Forum
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20 years agoThis is essentially a bug fix release to track the new version of the Nios II kit. The headline changes are:
- Changes in driver layout requested by the eCos maintainers. This is just a reorganisation of the directory structure of the code. It should not change the functionality of the drivers. - Removal of the ability to use the vanilla configtool rather than the nios2configtool wrapper when building for Nios II. This was a change requested by the eCos maintainers, and is intended to reduce the risk of confusion. - Addition of a nios2ecosconfig wrapper to allow projects to be build from the command line rather than through the nios2configtool GUI. - Removal of the unused boot stub in ROMRAM mode to allow applications to succesfully download through nios2-download. - Provided replacment stub for the C++ exception terminate handler to allow eCos to build succesfully with the latest version of GCC. - Reformatted the Redboot debug information to be compatible with the new version of GDB. - Set the MicroWindows defaults to be more Nios II freindly. - Increased the default web server stack size to avoid overflow when using DHCP. - ROMRAM is now the default configuration rather than RAM. - The license text was updated as requested by the eCos maintainers. - Makefile changes were made to avoid unecessary regeneration of PTF dependent files (i.e. the linker script etc.) which had previously been slowing build times. - The location of the Nios II host side tools was changed to be more consistent with other ports. - Fixed RTC constant definitions to support more than just the default tick rate.