YAY!

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Martine Lenders <authmille...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> \o/ finally!
>
> /goes to bed
> Am 05.10.2015 22:17 schrieb "Oleg Hahm" <oliver.h...@inria.fr>:
>
>> Dear RIOT developers and users,
>>
>> it has been a long and rocky road, but thanks to the marvellous
>> community, we
>> managed to finalize the fifth official release of the RIOT operating
>> system:
>>                 -----------------------------------
>>                 *         RIOT 2015.09            *
>>                 -----------------------------------
>>
>> The highlights of this release are three major parts:
>> * gnrc network stack
>> * xtimer
>> * cleanup of CPU and board specific code
>>
>> The new generic ("gnrc") network stack is a highly modular and
>> configurable
>> IPv6/6LoWPAN network stack. It implements a large number of IETF RFCs,
>> such as
>> RFC 2473, RFC 4861, RFC 4944, RFC 6550, or RFC 6775. Furthermore, it
>> provides
>> a unified API between the different layers and a generic network device
>> interface. The provided 6LoWPAN border router (6LBR) can be run on any
>> hardware, providing an IPv6 capable network interface or a UART for using
>> SLIP
>> (RFC 1055).
>>
>> A new timer subsystem is introduced by xtimer, replacing hwtimer and
>> vtimer
>> modules. xtimer offers very precise timer operations as well as support
>> for
>> long-term timers running over days and weeks. Along with well-known timer
>> operations in RIOT, it also provides a function for accurate periodic
>> timers.
>> In order to ease porting of your existing RIOT code, a vtimer
>> compatibility
>> layer can be used on top.
>>
>> Refactoring and cleaning up the peripheral drivers as well as other CPU
>> and
>> board specific code, helped to reduce the number of Makefile duplication
>> lines
>> by about 50% and provide a much cleaner and easier to use interface for
>> porting new platforms to RIOT.
>>
>> Of course this release also comes along with a variety of newly supported
>> boards, CPUs, and device drivers. RIOT 2015.09 has been ported to the
>> Eistec
>> Mulle, Phytec phyWAVE, Zolertia ReMote, Atmel SAML21, various ST Nucleo
>> boards, Freescale Freedom, TI Stellaris Launchpad, the LimiFrog, and
>> Silab's
>> Wonder Gecko. It supports a LC display, new light, motion, and temperature
>> sensors, and more accelerometers and magnetometers.
>>
>> Just to give you a rough estimation about the tremendous amount of work
>> that
>> has been put into this release, here are some impressive numbers:
>> About 580 pull requests with about 2,500 commits have been merged since
>> the
>> last release and 120 additional issues have been solved. 62 people
>> contributed
>> code in 277 days. 2578 files have been touched with ~320,000 insertions
>> and
>> ~134,000 deletions.
>>
>> As a major change to our development procedures, the RIOT community will
>> offer
>> long-term bug fixes for this release in a API-stable branch.
>>
>> You can download the RIOT release from Github, either by cloning the
>> repository or using the tarball:
>> https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/archive/2015.09.tar.gz
>>
>> Happy RIOT,
>> Oleg
>> --
>> printk(CARDNAME": Bad Craziness - sent packet while busy.\n" );
>>         linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/smc9194.c
>>
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