NuttX-6.12

The 79th release of NuttX, Version 6.12, was made on December 6, 2011 and is available for download from the SourceForge website. Note that release consists of two tarballs: nuttx-6.12.tar.gz and apps-6.12.tar.gz. Both may be needed (see the top-level nuttx/README.txt file for build information).

This release corresponds with SVN release number: r4141

New features in this release include:

• STM32. Basic support added for the STM32 F4 family. Board support verified for the STMicro STM3250G-EVAL board.

• FAT. Enhanced partition handling.

• SDIO-Based SD Card support. Add support for large (>4Gb) devices

• Graphics. Added four new small sans serif fonts.

• Drivers. Fix a banding problem with the R61580 LCD.

Bugfixes, order roughly on decreasing criticality include:

• FAT. Fix errors in how the first entries in the root directory are added. Fix errors in FAT date/time handling.

• Signals. Fix bug in certain sig_timedwait() error handling.

• Drivers. Fix cloned errors in poll() handling in several drivers.

• Message Queues. errno was not being set correctly by mq_notify().

• C Library. wchar_t is a built-in type for C++