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I've been asked if I could make the patch collection updates available as a
full-distribution release. Actually, I can't say that I blame that request.
Most of the changes have already been covered in prior lugnet postings under
the "BrickOS Patches and Development" thread (which technically became a
"Bibo Patches and Development" thread), but I will try to provide a
higher-level overview here (the numbers are based on the patch numbers).
These patches are applied to the Bibo firmware posted at
http://hoenicke.ath.cx/rcx/bibo.html. Several of these patches were
originally written for a variety of differing BrickOS versions, but (where
appropriate) they have been adapted and applied to Bibo.
* 00 - Configuration updates for Cygwin
* (01-05 - gcc 3.3, highmem, performance, Makefile, and tcpcomm patches
needed for BrickOS but already incorporated into Bibo)
* 06 - Signedness patch for dealing with newer gcc's (based on Carl
Troein's work)
* 07 - Allow makelx to handle longer file names (based on a pending
SourceForge patch)
* 08 - Update entrypoint specification to the S9 record for Lego.NET (based
on a pending SourceForge patch)
* 09 - Address compatibility issues in non-Linux/Cygwin environments (based
on a pending SourceForge patch)
* 10 - Serial port init fix for Mac OS X (based on a pending SourceForge
patch)
* 11 - LDCC incorporated into the kernel (based on Mark Riley's work)
* 12 - LNP printf capabilities (based on a version by Brown.edu)
* 13 - lnpmsg communication utility (started out based on Mike LeSauvage's
work)
* 14 - Miscellaneous patches included with xsLisp (based on Taiichi Yuasa's
work)
* 15 - doxygen updates (based on Carl Troein's work)
* 16 - Start of a major reworking of code under the util folder to
eliminate duplicate code
* 17 - Contributor info
* 18 - Standardize the command-line arguments and the command-line argument
processing for the host utilities
* 19 - Update and reorganization of LDCC
* 20 - Linux error/warning fixes (Carl Troein)
* 21 - Bibo patches (Dr. Jochen Hoenicke)
* 22 - Make kexeci's argv argument type more generic
* 23 - Incorporated some code and ideas from http://lnphost.sf.net/
* 24 - Update serial IR tower keepalive functionality
* 25 - Cleanup the util subdirectory
* 26 - Update Makefiles and changed cross-compiler optimization flag to -Os
(space)
* 27 - Made the "View" button functionality a configurable option
* 28 - Lisp for the RCX (based on Taiichi Yuasa's mod of BrickOS 0.2.6.10
at http://www.xslisp.com/)
* 29 - Improved the internal handling of connection types in rcx_comm
* 30 - Runtime-configurable timeout properties for host utilities
* 31 - Support NQC-style device name conventions
* 32 - Check a config file in the user's home directory for a default TTY
to use
* 33 - IR communication and hacked-on (e.g. Bluetooth) communication
* 34 - Config file cleanup removed entries for CONF_* #defines that do not
exist
* 35 - Remove CONF_ASCII dependencies, reducing kernel size, and enhancing
CONF_CONIO
* 36 - Check /etc/rcx/device.conf for a default TTY
* 37 - Reset the automatic shutoff timer if the Lego remote is used while
no programs are running (based on some tips from Dr. Hoenicke)
* 38 - Initialize the IR carrier frequency in the firmware fastloader
* 39 - Updated support for Linux
* 40 - Include the Debian toolprefix for the H8/300 toolchain in the config
list
* 41 - Support for building Esterel programs (in support of work by Martin
Richard and Xavier Fornari)
* 42 - Enabled specifying whether rcx_init() starts the Keepalive timer
After applying these patches, the following changes were made:
* Removed directory util/firmdl (no longer used)
* Removed directory util/dll-src (no longer used)
* Renamed program firmdl3 to firmdl (now that the directory of the same
name has been removed)
This release is available for download at the following URL:
http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2858992&group_id=58151&atid=486699
Enjoy,
Matthew
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