Release Notes for the SVME 179/181 HSS host driver
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Version      : 4.5
Release date : 2005-03-10


Revision History
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< 3.0	- 2001-10-12	- AH + GJK

				4 RX and Tx buffers per channel now default.
				100% bandwith utilization supported.
				NRZI space encoding for HDLC implemented.
				NRZI space/mark supported without DPLL and only with flag/sync's.
				SMC ports implemented.
				Two cards work together on SVME/DMV179 and X86 host card. 
				Added BISYNC protocol.
				Programming of flash on X86 fixed.
				Support for HSS Front Panel board.
				Added code to handle TX errors.
				2.8 supports multiple devices per Host Carrier Card.
				Fixed problem with CCT X86 board.

3.0   	- 2001-10-12	- AH + GJK

				Added new hssOpen_port_fp() function to enable floating point support for tasks.

3.1  	- 2001-11-20 	- AH

				Fixed hssPci_init() function to allocate all PCI devices properly.

3.2   	- 2001-12-07 	- AH

				Fixed hssCreate_device() function so that it can only be called once.
				
3.3   	- 2002-01-17 	- AH

				Added new hssCreate_device_ex() function to allow user to setup different bd buffer sizes.

3.4   	- 2002-03-12 	- AH

				Added CRC checking for HDLC.

3.5   	- 2002-04-11 	- AH

				TX done callback reports errors now.

3.5.1 	- 2002-10-25 	- AH

				Disabled flash on HSS card.				
				Fixed problem with DY4 VME-210&PMC-605.
				
3.5.3 	- 2003-01-31 	- AH

				Added High Speed Mode function for Port A.

3.5.4 	- 2003-03-27 	- AH

				hssCreate_device() checks firmware version stored in EEPROM against host driver version.
				Added hssEnable_polled_mode() function for low latency driver. (Disabled in version 4.0 / only available in version 3.5.4)

4.0   	- 2003-06-09 	- AH

				Support for DY4 SVME181.
				Changed driver to support WIN32 driver implementation.

4.0.1 	- 2003-07-15 	- AH
4.1   	- 2003-07-16 	- AH

				Fixed bug which caused the transmitter to corrupt packets.

4.2   	- 2003-09-01 	- AH

				Added HSS Power-On-Self-Test (POST) routines.

4.2.1 	- 2004-06-08 	- AH

				Added UART break character handling to hssSend_data().

4.2.2 	- 2004-06-30 	- AH

				Fixed problem with SVME179 BSP Rel 1.8 (crashing) when running hssCreate_device().

4.3 	- 2004-08-31 	- AH

				Added driver libraries for vxWorks 5.5.

4.4	- 2005-03-10	- AH

				Added software reset functionality (new function hssReset_card()).
				Re-enabled hssEnable_polled_mode() function.
								
4.5	- 2006-03-27	-CCB & GJK
				Synchronous clock signal was removed from asynchronous mode. 
				Asynchronous mode should not have a clock signal present. 
				Async is the default at startup.