What are the risks of running older versions of Tivaware (as old as the first) on a revision 7 device such as TM4C123BH6PGEI7R.
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What are the risks of running older versions of Tivaware (as old as the first) on a revision 7 device such as TM4C123BH6PGEI7R.
Thank you!
Hello Lenio,
The risk would be that multiple issues identified in TivaWare and since resolved via updates would still be present, and possibly any errata items which were discovered since that TivaWare was released would not be addressed.
On the errata side, you can check the TM4C123x errata document's revision history to see the additions made and the dates from original document release to errata update and compare that to the TivaWare version release date: http://www.ti.com/lit/er/spmz849f/spmz849f.pdf
In general we strongly recommend using the latest TivaWare, and we also won't be able to support such an old version either.
Lenio Cacula said:The software resides on a separate board. Even though the board in which the TM4C device resides is fresh and loaded with the latest and greatest, there is a chance a future update may fail and the host control board will load a previous image.
OK, that still sounds like a revision control problem with the other board. It should be able to make it's own compatibility checks.
Lenio Cacula said:Setting the particular aspects of the application aside, the fundamental question is whether anyone has experience with testing an older Tivaware version on a rev 7 device.
The original answer was quite complete in that regard. The errata unaddressed in the older version will remain unaddressed. The question is, do the errata affect you and how badly? It's your application, I think that only you can answer.
Robert