[FE training-materials-updates] slides/buildroot-whats-new: update for 2015.08 -> 2017.08
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Oct 16 16:15:06 CEST 2017
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Author: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
Date: Mon Oct 16 16:14:49 2017 +0200
slides/buildroot-whats-new: update for 2015.08 -> 2017.08
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
\item Always mentions changes that could cause backward
compatibility problems
\item The following slides summarize the major new features added in
- each release between 2014.05 and 2016.05.
+ each release between 2015.08 and 2017.08.
\item All new Buildroot versions come with new packages, and many
updates to the existing packages
\begin{itemize}
@@ -17,217 +17,6 @@
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
-\begin{frame}{In 2014.05 (1)}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item {\bf Architectures:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Support for MIPS o32 ABI on MIPS-64 targets has
- been removed (too exotic)
- \item Support for the ARM A12 variant and Intel corei7
- \end{itemize}
- \item {\bf Defconfigs:} Minnowboard and Altera SoCkit added, QEMU
- updates.
- \item {\bf Bootloaders:} Grub2 and gummiboot support, syslinux
- support extended.
- \item Kconfig handling for minimum kernel headers version required
- for packages. Now packages needing specific kernel header features
- can specify these requirements in Kconfig.
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{In 2014.05 (2)}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item {\bf Toolchains:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item GCC 4.9. Glibc 2.19.
- \item Support for the musl C
- library for internal and external toolchains.
- \item GCC 4.8-R3 support for ARC
- \item Internal toolchain support for Aarch64 and
- Microblaze
- \item Toolchain tuple vendor name can now be
- customized.
- \item Updated external Linaro ARM/Aarch64
- toolchains.
- \item Added external Linaro ARMEB toolchain.
- \item A GDB gdbinit file is now generated for external toolchains
- to automatically set the correct sysroot.
- \end{itemize}
- \item {\bf Infrastructure:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Support for (but disabled as it leads to
- unreproducible builds) toplevel parallel builds.
- \item Python package infrastructure extended to support Python 3.x
- \item Perl and virtual package infrastructure support added.
- \item \code{PRE_*_HOOKS} support for all build steps.
- \end{itemize}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{In 2014.08 (1)}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item {\bf Architectures:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Powerpc64 BE/LE added, AVR32 deprecated.
- \item Improved altivec / SPE /atomic instructions
- handling. Additional PowerPC CPU variants added.
- \end{itemize}
- \item {\bf Defconfigs:} Atmel SAMA5D3, Congatec QMX6, Lego ev3,
- TS-5x00, qemu-system-xtensa, qemu-aarch64-virt added. A number
- of tweaks to existing ones. lpc32xx defconfigs removed.
- \item {\bf Toolchain:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Microblaze support for internal musl toolchain.
- \item Default to GCC 4.8 for internal toolchain, remove deprecated
- 4.3 and 4.6 versions.
- \item External CodeSourcery / Linaro toolchain updates
- \item Option to copy gconv libraries for external toolchains.
- \end{itemize}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{In 2014.08 (2)}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item {\bf Infrastructure:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \code{graph-depends} improvements
- \item Download handling is now done using helper scripts.
- \item Integrity of downloads can now be verified using hashes
- \item Legal-info: License info of local or overridden packages
- are saved as well. Toolchain packages are also taken into
- account.
- \item autotools: Static linking with libtool / v1.5 improvements
- \item Gettextize support, similar to autoreconf
- \item kconfig package infrastructure added
- \end{itemize}
- \item User manual restructured / reworked
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{In 2014.11}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item {\bf Toolchains:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Use \code{-mcpu} / \code{-march} instead of \code{-mtune}
- \item Support additional ARC and sparc variants
- \item Updated Code sourcery and Linaro external toolchains
- \end{itemize}
- \item {\bf Defconfigs:} Freescale iMX6DL SabreSD, Minnowboard MAX,
- QEMU powerpc64 pseries added and a number of updates to the
- existing configurations.
- \item {\bf Infrastructure:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Buildroot is now less noisy when built with the silent
- option (\code{make -s})
- \item A number of package infrastructure variables have been
- renamed from \code{*_OPT} to \code{*_OPTS} for consistency
- \item Option to choose what shell /bin/sh points to
- \end{itemize}
- \item {\bf Documentation:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Various updates to the user manual
- \item The asciidoc documentation handling has now been extended so
- it can be used by \code{BR2_EXTERNAL}
- \end{itemize}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{In 2015.02 (1)}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item {\bf Static/shared library handling reworked}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item This is now a tristate (shared only / shared and static /
- static only)
- \item Default is now shared only to speed up the
- build. \code{BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB} is now called
- \code{BR2_STATIC_LIBS}
- \end{itemize}
- \item {\bf Toolchain:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item The toolchain (internal and external) will now warn when an
- unsafe library or header path is used
- \item If \code{BR2_COMPILER_PARANOID_UNSAFE_PATH} is enabled under
- build options this instead becomes an error.
- \end{itemize}
- \item {\bf Architectures:} Freescale E5500 and E6500 PowerPC support
- added, deprecated MIPS 1/2/3/4 support removed.
- \item {\bf Defconfigs:} Freescale p2020ds, MIPS creator CI20,
- Raspberrypi with DT, UDOO Quad
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{In 2015.02 (2)}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \code{make <foo>_defconfig} now saves the path to the
- defconfig in the \code{.config}, so a \code{make savedefconfig}
- automatically updates it
- \item Infrastructure for packages using the Erlang rebar tool has
- been added.
- \item Hashes for a large number of packages have been added. Hashes
- are now checked for both target and host packages.
- \item The system menu now has an option to automatically configure a
- network interface through DHCP at bootup.
- \item The default filesystem skeleton now uses a separate
- \code{tmpfs} for \code{/run} instead of a symlink to \code{/tmp/}
- for security reasons / to protect against conflicts with user
- generated temporary files.
- \item \code{BR2_EXTERNAL} is now exported to post-build and
- post-image scripts.
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{In 2015.05 (1)}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item {\bf Architectures:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Removed AVR32 support, SuperH64 deprecated
- \item Added support for steamroller, corei7-avx and core-avx2 x86
- variants.
- \end{itemize}
- \item {\bf Toolchains:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item IPv6 and Largefile support now enforced for
- uClibc. Corresponding Kconfig symbols removed.
- \item External CodeSourcery AMD64 2014.05 added
- \item musl-cross 1.1.6 added
- \item CodeSourcery SuperH 2 and Xilinx Microblaze v2/14.3 removed
- \item Distro-class external toolchains are now detected and
- blacklisted
- \item Internal toolchain support for Nios2 added, Blackfin
- removed.
- \item Aarch64 and sh musl support.
- \item uClibc-ng support added
- \item Libatomic is now handled for internal and external
- toolchains.
- \item Link time optimization (LTO) support.
- \end{itemize}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{In 2015.05 (2)}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item {\bf Defconfigs:} Freescale i.MX28 EVK, i.MX31 PDK and SABRE
- Auto, Raspberry Pi 2, RIoTboard
- \item {\bf Infrastructure:}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Hashes for a large number of packages have
- been added.
- \item Missing hashes now stop the build unless
- explicitly disabled.
- \item Spaces and colons (:) are now supported in package versions.
- \item Dependencies can now be listed for the patch step
- (\code{<PKG>_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES}).
- \item Kconfig and Linux kernel extensions infrastructure has
- been added.
- \item Makedevs now has a recursive (r) option
- \item \code{external-deps}, \code{legal-info}, \code{source},
- \code{source-check} have been reimplemented using the package
- infrastructure, so their output/behaviour may differ from
- earlier (some packages were not included in the past).
- \end{itemize}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
\begin{frame}{In 2015.08}
\begin{itemize}
\item {\bf Architectures:} Minimal support for ARM Cortex-M3 and
@@ -303,3 +92,112 @@
defconfigs were added for m68k, eXtensa-nommu and ColdFire.
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{2016.08}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item {\bf Toolchains}: Fortran support, {\em eglibc} removed,
+ Blackfin and Microblaze support in the internal toolchain backend.
+ \item {\bf Infrastrcture}:
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Addition of \code{BR2_REPRODUCIBLE} which makes the build more
+ reproducible. This is still work in progress.
+ \item Support for Git sub-module fetching
+ \item Script running inside the {\em fakeroot} environment
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item {\bf Defconfigs}: Arcturus uCP1020, Blackfin GDB simulator,
+ Linksprite pcDuino, Minnow Board Max graphical demo, NXP i.MX25
+ PDK, i.MX51 EVK, i.MX6UL Pico, i.MX7 sabresd, QEMU MIPS32r6{,el}
+ and MIPS64r6{,el} malta, Roseapple Pi, Samsung Snow chromebook,
+ Toradex Apalis i.MX6 COM, TS-4800, x86-64 PC BIOS and EFI demos
+ \item {\bf New packages}: Docker, Alljoyn, TI GPU support, SDL2,
+ many Python packages, Xen, etc.
+ \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{2016.11}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item {\bf Infrastructure}:
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item multiple \code{BR2_EXTERNAL} trees are supported
+ \item \code{<pkg>_DL_OPTS}
+ \item \code{<pkg>-show-rdepends}, to list reverse dependencies
+ \item \code{<pkg>-graph-rdepends}, to graph reverse dependencies
+ \item \code{linux-tools} package to build Linux kernel tools
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item {\bf Architecture}: improved MIPS core selection, SH64 support
+ removed
+ \item {\bf Toolchain}: support for Musl on PowerPC64LE, improved
+ MIPS64/MIPS64r6 toolchains. GCC now always built with TLS support.
+ \item {\bf Defconfigs}: WaRP7, Solidrun's MX6 Cubox/Hummingboard,
+ TS-4900, Grinn's liteBoard, Udoo MX6Q/DL, Qemu ARM noMMU,
+ BeagleBone Qt5 demo, Digilent Zybo, FriendlyARM Nanopi NEO.
+ \item {\bf New packages}: ARM Trusted Firmware, AMD GPU drivers,
+ XVisor, RabbitMQ, Python packages, etc.
+ \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{2017.02}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item This is the first {\bf Long Term Support} release, supported
+ during one year
+ \item {\bf Infrastructure}:
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Reproducible builds improvements
+ \item \code{waf-package} infrastructure
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item {\bf Architecture}: OpenRISC support added, merge of ARM and
+ ARM64, support of ARM64 core selection.
+ \item {\bf Toolchain}: major rework of external toolchain support
+ (now split in several packages), gdb 7.11 by default
+ \item {\bf Defconfigs}: Freescale i.MX23EVK, Qemu OpenRISC
+ emulation, Qemu NIOS2 emulation, Grinn chiliBoard, Freescale
+ i.MX6Q SabreSD, BeagleBoard X15, OrangePi One, ARC HS38 HAPS
+ \item {\bf New packages}: MariaDB, Hiredis, Python packages, etc.
+ \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{2017.05}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item {\bf Infrastructure}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Check architectures of installed binaries
+ \item Removed automatic {\em ext2} size calculation
+ \item Wrapper script for {\em genimage}
+ \item Runtime testing infrastructure, defconfigs tested in
+ Gitlab-CI, {\em check-package}
+ \item SPDX license codes used everywhere
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item {\bf Toolchains}: glibc 2.25, uClibc-ng 1.0.24, binutils 2.27
+ by default
+ \item {\bf Architecture}: support for the C-SKY architecture
+ \item {\bf Defconfigs}: AT91sam9x5ek dev/mmc/mmc-dev, banana pro,
+ Nationalchip gx6605s, MIPS creator ci40, nexbox a95x, 64bit
+ defconfig for RaspberryPi 3, stm32f429-disc1
+ \item {\bf New packages}: GhostScript, GStreamer VA-API, RPi
+ firmwares, {\em s6} suite of programs, etc.
+ \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{2017.08}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item {\bf Infrastructure}:
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Skeleton split in multiple packages:
+ \code{skeleton-init-{sysv,systemd,none,common}} and
+ \code{skeleton-custom}
+ \item Support for read-only rootfs with systemd
+ \item Major revamp of the {\em gettext} handling
+ \item \code{host/usr/} moved into \code{host/}
+ \item Support for license files hashes
+ \item Relocatable SDK, and RPATH cleaning in the target
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item {\bf Architecture}: ARM big/LITTLE, improved MIPS support
+ \item {\bf Toolchain}: gcc 6.x and binutils 2.28 by default, added
+ support for gcc 7.x, binutils 2.29 and gdb 8.0.
+ \item {\bf Defconfigs}: A13 Olinuxino, Engicam platforms (i.CoreM6
+ Solo/Dual/DualLite/Quad, RQS SOM, GEAM6UL SOM, Is.IoT MX6UL
+ SOM), Nano Pi M1 (Plus), OrangePi Zero and Plus
+ \item {\bf New packages}: Azure IOT SDK, Erlang and Python packages,
+ SELinux refpolicy, etc.
+ \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
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