nuttx/Documentation/ReleaseNotes/NuttX-6.11.md
Vinicius May f6ecf80ebb Documentation: brand new layout for NuttX documentation.
The documentation grew one page at a time, so the tree follows the
history of who wrote what and not the shape of NuttX. Scheduling is
spread over three places, a driver page can sit above the subsystem
that owns it, and the front page lists everything at the same level.
That is a lot to face when all you want to know is where the scheduler
lives.

This change files every page under the code it describes. It is a move,
not a rewrite: outside the ten pages named below, every page keeps the
text that is already in master, and no page's text is deleted.

What it does:

* Groups the table of contents into nine chapters.
* Moves the OS subsystems under os/: scheduling, memory, drivers,
  filesystem, networking, IPC, interrupts, libs, time.
* Renames the platform pages to the names the source tree uses, and
  derives their tags from the tree instead of by hand.
* Splits guides/ by subject.
* Adds Documentation/redirects.py, with a rule for every page that left
  its old path, so old URLs keep working. The redirect page also carries
  a link's #anchor across to the new page.

Ten pages have text that is new or rewritten. Nine of them are the
landing page of a chapter, which has to exist for the new structure:

    index                  the front page
    os/index               OS Design
    os/scheduling/index    Scheduling
    os/interrupts/index    Interrupts
    os/ipc/index           IPC
    os/time/index          Time and timers
    about/index            About
    developing/index       Developing NuttX
    ReleaseNotes/index     Release notes

The tenth is os/libs/libbuiltin, the only page here with technical
content: libs/libbuiltin/ had no page at all. Five SVG diagrams come
with these pages, hand-written XML with no editor metadata.

Nothing outside Documentation/ is touched.

How it was checked:

* Sphinx builds with -W: no warnings, and no document left outside a
  toctree.
* A script, offered in the PR, proves the narrow claim this rests on.
  For every page outside the ten named above it erases what a move
  touches -- link target, path, tag line, toctree block, table border --
  from the whole old text and the whole new text, and requires the two
  to be byte for byte identical. It also requires every sentence of a
  deleted page to turn up somewhere, and every page that left its old
  path to have a redirect, from a URL that existed, to where its content
  went. It exits non-zero and names the page if any of that is not true,
  and it tests added pages too, so forgetting to declare one cannot make
  it pass.
* An independent audit checked 133 factual claims on these ten pages
  against the tree, one shell command per claim: 130 confirmed, 1
  refuted and fixed here, 2 not checkable.
* tools/checkpatch.sh is clean over the range.

The diff is large because moving a page changes every link that points
to it. Most of it is pure renames, and board pages that gained one tag
line.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
2026-10-08 01:40:54 +08:00

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NuttX-6.11

The 78th release of NuttX, Version 6.11, was made on November 12, 2011 and is available for download from the SourceForge website. Note that release consists of two tarballs: nuttx-6.11.tar.gz and apps-6.11.tar.gz. Both may be needed (see the top-level nuttx/README.txt file for build information).

This release corresponds with SVN release number: r4090

This release is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and some important bugfixes. New features include:

  • NX Graphics: New interfaces to read from graphics memory
  • Drivers: AT24 FLASH driver will now supports clustering of blocks to achieve a larger, more usable block size for NXFFS.
  • STM32: LCD color corrections
  • PIC32: Board configuration for the Microchip PIC32 Ethernet Starter kit (not yet verified), new GPIO support library, button and LED support for the Sure Electronics PIC32MX board. A lot of progress has been made on the PIC32 NuttX port, but it is still not ready for prime time.
  • NXP LPC3152: Board configuration for the Embedded Artists EA3152.

Bugfixes, order roughly on decreasing criticality include:

  • NXFFS: Corrected critical bugs in initialization, some full FLASH handling, and errors in certain cases where the FLASH is repacked.
  • ARM EABI: Fix stack alignment required for passing floating point values.
  • Build system: Fix build issues when g++ is used as the compiler.
  • NX Graphics: Bitmap error handling, correct RGB color conversion macros, Error when the background window is released.
  • STM32: RTC build fixes, LCD color corrections
  • Simulation target: build fixes
  • C Library: fclose() return value.

See the change log for more detailed information.