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QNX® Software Development Platform 6.4.1 Truncated Message Copy Issue — SMP PowerPC Kernels Patch (Patch ID 1636) Release Notes
Date of this edition: March 02, 2010
Target OS: This patch is compatible with targets that are running QNX® Neutrino® 6.4.1.
Host OS: In order to apply this patch, you must have installed the QNX Software Development Platform as a self-hosted QNX Neutrino® development system, or on one of the following development hosts:
- Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista 64-bit, XP SP2 or SP3, or 2000 SP4
- Linux Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 4.0 or 5.0, Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.1 64-bit, Red Hat Fedora 10, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS or 8.10, or SUSE 11
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Contents
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What's in this patch?
This patch contains updates to the PowerPC kernels to address an issue with a truncated message copy specific to PowerPC e500 targets.
The following files are installed in target/qnx6/ppcbe/boot/sys/ under the base directory for QNX SDP:
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Although the problem that this patch addresses only occurs with the SMP kernel and is specific to PowerPC e500 targets, the patch contains updated versions of all PowerPC procnto's (including the uniprocessor version) due to code changes in common files. If it's necessary to apply the patch, for consistency reasons it's important to update all of the PowerPC variants included in this patch. |
- libmod_aps.a
- procnto-400
- procnto-400-instr
- procnto-600
- procnto-600-instr
- procnto-600-smp
- procnto-600-smp-instr
- procnto-800
- procnto-800-instr
- procnto-booke
- procnto-booke-instr
- procnto-booke-smp
- procnto-booke-smp-instr
Fixed issues
An exception at the wrong time on PowerPC SMP e500 systems no longer causes messages to be truncated. (Ref# 71329)
Known issues
None currently known.
Technical support
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