[Buildroot] Buildroot 2012.08-rc1 released
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Aug 1 20:09:24 UTC 2012
Hi,
Buildroot 2012.08-rc1 is released - Go download it at:
http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2012.08-rc1.tar.gz
or
http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2012.08-rc1.tar.bz2
Or get it from Git:
git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot
Please give it a spin and report any problems to the mailing list or
bug tracker. Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:
git shortlog -s -n 2012.05..
124 Gustavo Zacarias
73 Peter Korsgaard
68 Thomas Petazzoni
37 Luca Ceresoli
25 Simon Dawson
21 Samuel Martin
17 Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
12 Maxime Ripard
12 Thomas De Schampheleire
10 Nathan Lynch
9 Francois Perrad
7 Yegor Yefremov
6 Danomi Manchego
6 Jonathan Liu
5 Baruch Siach
5 Marek Belisko
3 Arnout Vandecappelle
3 gregory hermant
2 Dominik Faessler
1 Aras Vaichas
1 Arn R
1 Benoît Thébaudeau
1 Daniel Mack
1 David Purdy
1 Dimitry Golubovsky
1 Eric Jarrige
1 Frank Hunleth
1 François Perrad
1 Jarkko Sakkinen
1 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
1 Julian Lunz
1 Kelvin Cheung
1 Markos Chandras
1 Murat Demirten
1 Phil Edworthy
1 Richard Braun
1 Tristan Lelong
1 Will Newton
Just like for the 2012.05, we see an increasing number of new
contributors, which is very good.
The important new features are:
Integration of a legal information reporting infrastructure,
which allows to generate detailed informations about the
licenses and source code of all components of a system
generated by Buildroot. License information will progressively
be added on packages.
Default configuration files added for Calao-systems USB-A9263
and Calao-systems USB-A9G20-LPW.
External toolchains update: allow download of a custom
toolchain, add Linaro 2012.05 and 2012.06 for ARM, add
Blackfin toolchain 2012R1-BETA1, add Sourcery CodeBench MIPS
2011.09.
Allow the restriction of downloads to the primary site only.
This is useful for project developers who want to ensure that
the project can be built even if the upstream tarball
locations disappear.
Add a 'System configuration' choice to select between 3
different init systems: Busybox init, SysV init and Systemd
init.
Cleanups to the package infrastructure. The visible change to
developers is that $(eval $(call AUTOTARGETS)) is now $(eval
$(autotools-package)), and similarly for other package
infrastructures and host packages. Refer to the documentation
for details.
By default, automatic detection of the number of compilation
jobs to use, depending on the number of CPUs available.
Improvements to generate systems with static libraries only
(infrastructure and package fixes).
Add proper support in the Linux kernel package to generate
Device Tree Blobs or combined Device Tree / Kernel
images. This will be useful on Microblaze, PowerPC and ARM,
which are architectures making extensive use of the Device
Tree.
Many new packages: cjson, collectd, dfu-util, dmidecode, elftosb,
fbterm, flashrom, freerdp, inadyn, libfreefare,
libnetfilter_cttimeout, libnfc, libnfc-llcp, liboping,
libtorrent, linphone, logsurfer, lshw, luacjson, luaexpat,
luajit, mediastreamer, mobile-broadband-provider-info, monit,
mxs-bootlets, nanocom, nss-mdns, ofone, omap-u-boot-utils,
opkg, ortp, owl-linux, python-id3, python-nfc, quota,
ramspeed, rtorrent, sound-theme-borealis,
sound-theme-freedesktop, sysprof, webrtc-audio-processing,
xinetd, zxing
And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. Special thanks to
Luca Cerosoli for the legal info infrastructure implementation, to
Arnout Vandecappelle for more package infrastructure cleanup, and
Maxime Ripard for the improved Device Tree support and finalization of
the systemd integration. And of course thanks to all the contributors
for their fixes, new packages, bug reports and ideas. See the CHANGES
file for details:
http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2012.08_rc1
Like Peter was doing, I will now create a next branch and start merging
in new features, rather than wait until 2012.08 is released. Note
however that during the next three weeks, I will only have a 3G mobile
data connection, so I may be less reactive.
Enjoy!
Thomas Petazzoni
--
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com
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