Release-2011.03

Introduction

This release has completed and been tagged. This has been tested for several combinations as listed below in the table. This does not cover all the possible combinations The list provides the information about what different DISTRO, MACHINE, IMAGE combinations were tested, along with what version of bitbake and what host distribution.

Changes since the 2010.12 Release

Here are the high level changes since the previous release. At the high level we have made over 2000 commits since the last release.

• Update to bitbake 1.10.2 as the minimum required version
• Many build-time improvements
  • Many implicit build-time dependencies fixed (now explicit).
  • We now consistently use our own perl.
  • We use wrapper scripts for portability in certain shell commands and have moved some early recipes to just being scripts that always exist.
  • Default to using libtool 2.4 in many distributions.
  • Many QA errors fixed.
• Many version updates to recipes (including the toolchain).
  • Also includes fully migrating to opkg from ipkg
  • EFL v1.0 support.
  • A number of security patches have been applied (or updates performed for fixes).
  • Updated many recipes for new download locations.
• Updated kernel and u-boot version for a number of platforms.
• Better support for Freescale QorIQ (PowerPC e500) and uClibc.

Getting 2011.03 Release

The release can be obtained using

$ git clone git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded
$ cd openembedded

followed by

$ git checkout release-2011.03

or (if you like to create a local branch from the release tag to avoid ending up with detached HEAD state)

$ git checkout -b release-2011.03 origin/release-2011.03

Tip: Download the setup scripts from http://gitorious.org/angstrom/angstrom-setup-scripts

 git clone git://gitorious.org/angstrom/angstrom-setup-scripts.git

Test combinations

machine	distro	target	workstation	bitbake	tester	build type	Existing issues	Hash tested	Build Machine	Build Time
mpc8315e-rdb, p2020ds, p2020rdb, qemux86, qemuppc, qemush4, qemumips, qemumipsel	minimal, minimal-uclibc	nas-server-image, native-sdk-image, console-image, minimal-image, x11-image, meta-toolchain, qt4-x11-demo-image, qt4e-demo-image	Ubuntu 10.04 / Ubuntu 8.04 32bit	34c7ff67d7f4c7	Tom Rini [1]	clean	none	af8541
qemuarm	minimal	nas-server-image, native-sdk-image, console-image, minimal-image, x11-image, meta-toolchain, qt4-x11-demo-image, qt4e-demo-image	Ubuntu 10.04 / Ubuntu 8.04 32bit	34c7ff67d7f4c7	Tom Rini [1]	clean	none	af8541
qemuarm	minimal-uclibc	nas-server-image, native-sdk-image, console-image, minimal-image, x11-image, meta-toolchain	Ubuntu 10.04 / Ubuntu 8.04 32bit	34c7ff67d7f4c7	Tom Rini [1]	clean	qt4 fails to link	af8541
qemumips64	minimal / minimal-uclibc	nas-server-image, native-sdk-image, console-image, minimal-image, x11-image, meta-toolchain	Ubuntu 10.04 / Ubuntu 8.04 32bit	34c7ff67d7f4c7	Tom Rini [1]	clean	postgresql fails to build (fix)	af8541
at91sam9263ek, at91sam9g20ek, mini2440, hawkboard, overo, mini6410, beagleboard	angstrom-2008.1	console-image	Ubuntu 10.04 / Ubuntu 8.04 32bit	34c7ff67d7f4c7	Tom Rini [1]	clean	See here for QT4 issues	af8541
at91sam9263ek, mini2440, hawkboard, overo, mini6410, beagleboard	angstrom-2010.x	console-image	Ubuntu 10.04 / Ubuntu 8.04 32bit	34c7ff67d7f4c7	Tom Rini [1]	clean	See here for QT4 issues	af8541
mini2440, hawkboard, mini6410, beagleboard	angstrom-2010.x	qt4e-demo-image, qt4-x11-demo-image	Ubuntu 10.04 / Ubuntu 8.04 32bit	34c7ff67d7f4c7	Tom Rini [1]	clean	See here for QT4 issues	af8541
at91sam9263ek	kaeilos	minimal-image, x11-image, meta-toolchain	Ubuntu 10.04 / Ubuntu 8.04 32bit	34c7ff67d7f4c7	Tom Rini [1]	clean	See here for QT4 issues, and here for ronetix-pm9263 fix.	af8541
nokia900	shr	shr-image	Ubuntu 10.04 / Ubuntu 8.04 32bit	34c7ff67d7f4c7	Tom Rini [1]	clean	om-gta02 need patch 256	af8541
nslu2be, nslu2le	slugos, ucslug	slugos-image	Ubuntu 10.04 / Ubuntu 8.04 32bit	34c7ff67d7f4c7	Tom Rini [1]	clean	none	af8541
at91sam9m10ekes	angstrom-2008.1	x11-image	Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit	1.10.2	ulf	clean	none	N/A	Core-i7@ 2,66 GHz/ 6GB	1:31:10
at91sam9m10ekes	angstrom-2008.1	minimal-image	Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit	1.10.2	ulf	inc	none	N/A	Core-i7@ 2,66 GHz/ 6GB	0:01:04
at91sam9m10ekes	angstrom-2008.1	console-image	Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit	1.10.2	ulf	inc	none	N/A	Core-i7@ 2,66 GHz/ 6GB	0:01:16
at91sam9m10ekes	angstrom-2008.1	opie-image	Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit	1.10.2	ulf	inc	none	N/A	Core-i7@ 2,66 GHz/ 6GB	0:08:41
collie, akita, tosa, efikamx, ben-nanonote	angstrom-2008.1, angstrom-2010.x, minimal	console-image, x11-image, opie-image	Debian 'Squeeze' 6.0 x86_64	master	Jay7	clean, inc	N/A	N/A	Phenom II X6 1055T @2.8GHz /4Gb	N/A
efikamx	minimal,minimal-uclibc	console-image, x11-image, native-sdk-image	Fedora 14 x86_64	master	Khem	clean, inc	N/A	N/A
hipox	angstrom-2008.1	minimal-image	openSUSE 11.3 i686	1.12.0	Sledz	clean	N/A	release-2011.03	Core2 Duo@ 2,4 GHz (2 cores) / 4GB
hipox	angstrom-2008.1	console-image	openSUSE 11.3 i686	1.12.0	Sledz	clean	N/A	ac9745f	Core2 Duo@ 2,4 GHz (2 cores) / 4GB	3:03h
hipox	angstrom-2008.1	angstrom-gnome-image	openSUSE 11.3 i686	1.12.0	Sledz	clean	N/A	ac9745f	Core2 Duo@ 2,4 GHz (2 cores) / 4GB	9:40h
hipox	angstrom-2008.1	angstrom-x-image	openSUSE 11.3 i686	1.12.0	Sledz	clean	do_rootfs failed (xfce4-notifyd and notification-daemon want to install /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service)	ac9745f	Core2 Duo@ 2,4 GHz (2 cores) / 4GB
bug20	angstrom-2008.1	minimal-image	Ubuntu 9.04 64 Bit	1.10.2	Stefan	clean	none	release-2011.03	Core-i7@ 3,2 GHz(8 cores) / 12GB	0:50h
bug20	angstrom-2008.1	console-image	Ubuntu 9.04 64 Bit	1.10.2	Stefan	clean	none	release-2011.03	Core-i7@ 3,2 GHz(8 cores)/ 12GB	1:15h
bug20	angstrom-2008.1	openjdk-6	Ubuntu 9.04 64 Bit	1.10.2	Stefan	clean	none	release-2011.03	Core-i7@ 3,2 GHz(8 cores)/ 12GB	1:37h
beagleboard	angstrom-2008.1	beagleboard-linuxtag2010-demo-image, console-image	Ubuntu 10.10 64 Bit	1.11.0	Cliff Brake	clean	N/A	af8541	Core-i7 6GB	5:30h
imote2	angstrom-2010.x	imote-image	Gentoo	1.10.2	Jonathan Cameron	clean	N/A	ac9745f
ts72xx	angstrom-2008.1	console-image	Ubuntu 10.04.2 x86_64	master@edd5075a	Ynezz	clean	N/A	8c6a371
ts72xx	angstrom-2008.1 uclibc	console-image	Ubuntu 10.04.2 x86_64	master@edd5075a	Ynezz	clean	alsa-lib-1.0.24.1-r0 failed	8c6a371
ts72xx	angstrom-2010.x	console-image	Ubuntu 10.04.2 x86_64	master@edd5075a	Ynezz	clean	N/A	8c6a371
ts72xx	angstrom-2010.x uclibc	console-image	Ubuntu 10.04.2 x86_64	master@edd5075a	Ynezz	clean	uclibc-0.9.30.2-r35.1 failed	8c6a371
ts72xx	minimal	console-image	Ubuntu 10.04.2 x86_64	master@edd5075a	Ynezz	clean	N/A	8c6a371
ts72xx	minimal-uclibc	console-image	Ubuntu 10.04.2 x86_64	master@edd5075a	Ynezz	clean	libfsobasics_git	8c6a371
machine	distro	target	workstation	bitbake	tester	build type	Existing issues	Hash tested	Build Machine	Build Time

[1] Testing done by Tom Rini. Resources kindly provided by Mentor Graphics