NuttX-6.8

The 75th release of NuttX, Version 6.8, was made on August 19, 2011 and is available for download from the SourceForge website. Note that release consists of two tarballs: nuttx-6.8.tar.gz and apps-6.8.tar.gz. Both may be needed (see the top-level nuttx/README.txt file for build information). Changes in this release are summarized below:

• NuttX has been ported to run on the Freescale Cortex-M4 “Kinetis” boards. Two board ports are available for (1) the Kinetis KwikStik-K40 and (2) the Kinetis TWR-K60N512 tower.

• Support for RGMP 0.3. This version of RGMP now runs on the OMAP4430 (arm) pandaboard

• LPC17xx CAN driver extended to support both CAN1 and CAN2 (submitted by Li Zhuoy (Lzzy))

• Fixed several critical bugs related to signal handling initialization and for signals the wake up tasks that are waiting to send or receive message queues.Both are important. (submitted by hkwilton).

• drivers/can.c: Fixed a semaphore overflow problem in the CAN driver (reported by Li Zhouy (Lzzy)).

• Added a new ADC driver infrastructure and TI ADS1255 driver both developed and submitted by Li Zhouy (Lzzy)).

See the Changelog for additional changes included in this release.