[Buildroot] Buildroot 2015.11 released
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Mon Nov 30 22:48:01 UTC 2015
Hi,
Buildroot 2015.11 is released - Go download it at:
http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2015.11.tar.gz
or
http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2015.11.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.
This cycle saw a bit less activity than other recent releases, but still
quite a lot (1100+) of changes all over the tree and more than 100
unique contributors! I'm very happy to see so many "new" people next to
the "oldtimers".
Of noteworthy new features/changes we have:
Architectures:
- Support for sparc64 added (internal toolchain with glibc
only).
- Support for mips32r6 and mips64r6 added.
- Support for Intel Quark X1000 CPU.
- Switch to EABIhf by default on ARM when a VFP is available.
Toolchains:
- glibc 2.22, gdb 7.10, use gdb 7.9 by default, musl 1.1.12,
uclibc-ng 1.0.8, host-gdb enabled on AArch64.
- The toolchain wrapper which was used only for external toolchains is
now also used for Buildroot internal toolchains. This allowed us to
fix the ccache support, prepare the way for top-level parallel build
support and remove gcc patches used to detect header/library path
poisoning.
- Remove Analog Devices Blackfin toolchain 2012R2.
- Fix several Xtensa build failures by switching from
text-section-literals to auto-litpools.
- Enable MIPS64 support in uClibc-ng, use uClibc on ARC rather than a
specific fork.
- Toolchain fixes for PowerPC e5500 / e6500.
- Linaro toolchains for ARM, ARMeb and AArch64 updated to 2015.08.
2014.09 version is kept since 2015.08 only runs on x86_64 hosts.
Bootloaders:
- Fix ARM64 support in U-Boot.
Defconfigs:
- Added: ARC HS38 VDK virtual boards, Avnet Microzed, Boundary Devices
Nitrogen SoloX, Freescale i.MX6 SoloX Sabre SD, OLinuxino A20 Lime2,
Qemu Sparc64, Qemu SuperH 4 big endian, Synopsys AArch64 VDK virtual
platform.
- Updated: calao_qil_a9260, calao_usb_a9g20_lpw, ci20, cubieboad,
freescale_imx6_*, imx53loco, imx6_vab820, mpc8315erdb, qmx6, p1010rdb,
qemu, raspberrypi, raspberrypi2, riotboard, snps_axs10*, wandboard.
- Removed: at91rm9200df, at91sam9260dfc, at91sam9263ek,
calao_snowball_defconfig, gnublin, integrator926_defconfig.
Infrastructure:
- Support for fetching from Mercurial tags fixed.
- Introduce LINUX_NEEDS_MODULES, which allows to enforce module support
to be enabled in the kernel when a package builds out-of-tree kernel
modules (through the pkg-kernel-module infrastructure or on its own).
- Improve the perl package infrastructure to automatically add the
dependency to the perl interpreter to target perl module packages.
- Remove trailing slashes in <pkg>_SITE and addition of a check to
ensure such trailing slashes are no longer added.
- Extend the legal infrastructure to allow packages to declare their
actual source code. This is useful for packages for which <pkg>_SOURCE
points to pre-built binaries (as is the case for external
toolchains). The new <pkg>_ACTUAL_SOURCE variable allows to point to
the source code in such cases.
- Improved ccache support, thanks to the usage of a toolchain wrapper
for internal toolchain. Now a single cache directory can be shared
between different Buildroot builds.
- Addition of a 'graph-size' make targets, which generates a PDF graph
of per-package size of the root filesystem.
- Addition of <pkg>_EXCLUDES so that packages can request certain parts
of the source code tarball to not be extracted. This feature is
currently used by gcc and toolchain-external.
- Packages can now use the <pkg>_PKGDIR variable, provided by the
package infrastructure, to reference their package directory, instead
of explicitly using package/<pkg>/.
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH is no longer used to ensure host binaries find their
libraries, fixing issues on recent Fedora.
- Apply-patches.sh now correctly applies all files listed in series
files.
Filesystems:
- Add high lz4 compression to squashfs.
- Simplification of shell profile files in the default skeleton.
- Remove ftp user and /home/ftp from the skeleton, and let ftp server
packages create these when needed.
- Add support for /bin, /sbin and /lib to be symlinks to their
corresponding directories in /usr. This is enforced for systemd
configurations, and optional for other configurations.
- Support for AXFS filesystem image generation added.
- New options to add extra space/inodes to ext2/3/4 images.
And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES
file for details:
http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2015.11
Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:
git shortlog -s -n 2015.08..
223 Gustavo Zacarias
95 Vicente Olivert Riera
83 Bernd Kuhls
82 Thomas Petazzoni
69 Peter Korsgaard
65 Yann E. MORIN
41 Arnout Vandecappelle
41 Jörg Krause
37 Baruch Siach
34 Peter Seiderer
24 Francois Perrad
20 Maxime Hadjinlian
19 Gary Bisson
17 Waldemar Brodkorb
16 Luca Ceresoli
14 Benoît Thébaudeau
14 Chris Packham
14 James Knight
13 Jerzy Grzegorek
10 Rodrigo Rebello
8 Christophe Vu-Brugier
7 Martin Bark
7 Max Filippov
6 Alexey Brodkin
6 Romain Naour
6 kei-k at ca2.so-net.ne.jp
5 Ben Shelton
5 Brendan Heading
5 Gwenhael Goavec-Merou
5 Jonathan Ben Avraham
5 Jérôme Pouiller
5 Ryan Barnett
5 Sergio Prado
5 Steven Noonan
4 Alex Suykov
4 Petr Vorel
4 Thijs Vermeir
4 Thomas De Schampheleire
4 Tom Sparks
4 Yegor Yefremov
3 Anders Roxell
3 David du Colombier
3 Nikolay Dimitrov
3 Rahul Bedarkar
2 Alexander Dahl
2 André Hentschel
2 Ariel D'Alessandro
2 Bjørn Forsman
2 Carlos Santos
2 Charles Duffy
2 Danomi Manchego
2 Davide Viti
2 Doug Kehn
2 Douglas RAILLARD
2 Fabio Porcedda
2 Francesco Nwokeka
2 Gabe Evans
2 Giovanni Zantedeschi
2 Jeremy Kerr
2 Johan Oudinet
2 Julian Scheel
2 Mike Williams
2 Noé Rubinstein
2 Peter Rosin
2 Scott Fan
2 jpinto
1 Alexander Lukichev
1 Andreas Wetzel
1 Angelo Compagnucci
1 Aurélien Chabot
1 Bartosz Golaszewski
1 Ben Boeckel
1 Chris Lesiak
1 Cyril Bur
1 Cédric Marie
1 Dale Ghent
1 Daniel Nyström
1 David Kosir
1 Ed Swierk
1 Edson Siqueira
1 Ezequiel García
1 Frank Hunleth
1 Gergely Imreh
1 Guillaume GARDET
1 Herve Codina
1 Jan Viktorin
1 Joao Pinto
1 Julien Boibessot
1 Julien CORJON
1 Lada Trimasova
1 Marc
1 Matt Weber
1 Matthias Weisser
1 Nicolas Cavallari
1 Parnell Springmeyer
1 Phil Eichinger
1 Ray Kinsella
1 Remi Pommarel
1 Renaud AUBIN
1 Ronak Desai
1 Samuel Martin
1 Stephen Agate
1 Steve Calfee
1 Trent Piepho
1 Viallard Anthony
1 Vincent Stehlé
1 guillaume william brs
1 vicencb at gmail.com
And a special thanks to our patch reviewers:
git log 2015.08.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | \
sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
84 Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera at imgtec.com>
65 Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
38 "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
23 Romain Naour <romain.naour at openwide.fr>
10 Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar>
8 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
6 Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>
4 Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls at t-online.de>
3 Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski at imgtec.com>
3 Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
3 Jörg Krause <joerg.krause at embedded.rocks>
3 "James Knight" <james.knight at rockwellcollins.com>
2 "Maxime Hadjinlian" <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>
2 Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
1 Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com>
1 Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot at savoirfairelinux.com>
1 Ryan Barnett <ryanbarnett3 at gmail.com>
1 Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>
1 "James Knight" <james.d.knight at live.com>
1 Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com>
1 Francois Perrad <francois.perrad at gadz.org>
1 Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
1 Alexander Dahl <post at lespocky.de>
1 Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx at uclibc-ng.org>
1 Jan Viktorin <viktorin at rehivetech.com>
Once again our autobuilders have helped us fix a huge amount of build
issues. Thanks to all the people reviewing failures and fixing issues:
for i in $(git log --format=%H 2015.08..); do \
git show --quiet $i | grep -q http://autobuild && \
git show --quiet --format="%an" $i ; done | sort | uniq -c | \
sort -rn -k1
25 Thomas Petazzoni
22 Gustavo Zacarias
18 Vicente Olivert Riera
17 Bernd Kuhls
16 Peter Korsgaard
16 Baruch Siach
12 Yann E. MORIN
8 Jörg Krause
7 Peter Seiderer
6 Rodrigo Rebello
5 Waldemar Brodkorb
5 Brendan Heading
4 kei-k at ca2.so-net.ne.jp
3 Yegor Yefremov
3 Francois Perrad
3 Chris Packham
2 Sergio Prado
2 Max Filippov
2 Alex Suykov
1 Steven Noonan
1 Ryan Barnett
1 Romain Naour
1 Lada Trimasova
1 Julien CORJON
1 Jérôme Pouiller
1 Gwenhael Goavec-Merou
1 Christophe Vu-Brugier
1 Arnout Vandecappelle
1 Alexander Lukichev
The next release will be 2016.02. Expect the first release candidate
shortly after the developers meeting, and the final release at the end
of February.
The next developers meeting will take place just after FOSDEM in
Brussels, Belgium:
http://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysFOSDEM2016
Many thanks to Google for sponsoring the meeting location! We are still
looking for a sponsor for the dinner Monday evening. Contact us if you
are interested.
During the 2015.11 cycle we had a very nice developers meeting in
Dublin, Ireland. Many thanks to Orange Business Services for sponsoring
the event and for all the participants for joining!
http://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysFOSDEM2015
Enjoy!
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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