Release Notes

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General Notes

This release comes to you mostly courtesy of Sean Keys who has done an outstanding job producing an XGATE assembler and linker for us to use! Sean's work can not be valued enough, it will be absolutely essential for future versions to perform to the high standards that we try to adhere to. One nice side effect of the tools being new, is that they now work exactly the same way on all platforms. This now includes Windows Vista upon which the previous tools would not even run due to a small bug in the GCC used to build them.

I would like to thank quite a few people for their involvment in this release:

• Sean Keys - Wrote XGATE assembler and other binutils, hacked XGATE into FreeEMS, created debian repo
• David Andruczyk - Built windows installer and created scripts to make this repeatable
• Steve Ball - Mac OS X fink tools packaging
• Dave Cramer - Support verifying the Mac tools
• Charles Wilson - Mac OS X testing
• Tim Sutherland - Windows testing
• Tim Zimmerman - Windows testing
• Adrian Dickson - Windows testing
• Me - Makefile changes, integrating Sean's hacking, Linux testing

Finally, this release would not be possible if not for the kindness of numerous people that have donated money and food to the cause. During the development of 0.1.1 I have been homeless, living in my car, with no income and very little money. Just yesterday the last of the money ran out, and I am now living only on FreeEMS donations from car enthusiasts around the world. My most sincere and heart-felt thanks to each and every one of you! Most appreciated!

If anyone else wants to contribute, contact me through any medium for the details.

The new XGATE tools and information on them are available from here:

• FreeEMS Tools

New Features:

• XGATE core is functional, simple proof code in place
• Decoder interface skeleton in place
• Build is completely cross platform Linux/MacOSX/Windows

Differences:

• ADC sampling more accurate
• freeemsLoader.bash script checks for dat file
• Linker script fix for F8 page
• PDF documentation only generated for releases

Known Issues:

• Same as last release, only.