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authorThomas Lundström <thomas.lundstrom@enea.com>2016-06-23 13:47:00 +0200
committerThomas Lundström <thomas.lundstrom@enea.com>2016-06-23 13:47:00 +0200
commit8346b462a53822715a25e433818b09f77a728f22 (patch)
tree2733afceddb73af16dcdce6aaccffc9969ee2873
parent76d585a48c26bcea8e9b43aec7caf2f097add063 (diff)
downloadel_releases-networking-8346b462a53822715a25e433818b09f77a728f22.tar.gz
Updated release info (Removed unsupported targets & eclipse)
-rw-r--r--doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/about_release.xml46
-rw-r--r--doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/known_bugs_and_limitations.xml183
-rw-r--r--doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/main_changes.xml15
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 234 deletions
diff --git a/doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/about_release.xml b/doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/about_release.xml
index 1fa71f8..fbdfd76 100644
--- a/doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/about_release.xml
+++ b/doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/about_release.xml
@@ -45,11 +45,6 @@
45 <row> 45 <row>
46 <entry>Pre-built packages (RPM)</entry> 46 <entry>Pre-built packages (RPM)</entry>
47 </row> 47 </row>
48
49 <row>
50 <entry>Eclipse executable plus development tools for command line
51 and Eclipse</entry>
52 </row>
53 </tbody> 48 </tbody>
54 </tgroup> 49 </tgroup>
55 </informaltable> 50 </informaltable>
@@ -153,15 +148,7 @@
153 <entry>Linux kernel version<remark>was EneaLinux_KERNEL_VER Not in 148 <entry>Linux kernel version<remark>was EneaLinux_KERNEL_VER Not in
154 poky.ent</remark></entry> 149 poky.ent</remark></entry>
155 150
156 <entry><para>3.12 (P2041RDB &amp; LS1021a-IoT)</para><para>4.4 151 <entry><para>3.12</para></entry>
157 (QEmu targets)</para></entry>
158 </row>
159
160 <row>
161 <entry>Eclipse</entry>
162
163 <entry>4.5 (Mars)<remark>was Eclipse_VER and was Eclipse_NAME Not
164 in poky.ent</remark></entry>
165 </row> 152 </row>
166 153
167 <row> 154 <row>
@@ -203,17 +190,6 @@
203 </row> 190 </row>
204 191
205 <row> 192 <row>
206 <entry>Tools in the Eclipse tarball provided with Enea
207 Linux</entry>
208
209 <entry><para>See the <olink
210 targetdoc="book_enea_linux_eclipse_open_source"
211 targetptr="book_enea_linux_eclipse_open_source"><trademark
212 class="registered">Enea</trademark> Linux Eclipse Open Source
213 Report</olink></para></entry>
214 </row>
215
216 <row>
217 <entry>Packages provided by Yocto</entry> 193 <entry>Packages provided by Yocto</entry>
218 194
219 <entry><para>See the Yocto "Release Notes" <xi:include 195 <entry><para>See the Yocto "Release Notes" <xi:include
@@ -339,13 +315,6 @@
339 </listitem> 315 </listitem>
340 316
341 <listitem> 317 <listitem>
342 <para><olink targetdoc="book_enea_linux_eclipse_open_source"
343 targetptr="book_enea_linux_eclipse_open_source"><trademark
344 class="registered">Enea</trademark> Linux Eclipse Open Source
345 Report</olink></para>
346 </listitem>
347
348 <listitem>
349 <para><olink targetdoc="book_enea_linux_platforms_dev_guide" 318 <para><olink targetdoc="book_enea_linux_platforms_dev_guide"
350 targetptr="book_enea_linux_platforms_dev_guide"><trademark 319 targetptr="book_enea_linux_platforms_dev_guide"><trademark
351 class="registered">Enea</trademark> Linux Platforms Development 320 class="registered">Enea</trademark> Linux Platforms Development
@@ -393,10 +362,6 @@
393 online</para> 362 online</para>
394 </listitem> 363 </listitem>
395 </itemizedlist> 364 </itemizedlist>
396
397 <para>How to use Eclipse is described inside the Enea Linux user's guides.
398 Eclipse's own documentation is available in directory
399 <filename>eclipse/readme</filename>.</para>
400 </section> 365 </section>
401 366
402 <section id="relinfo-provided-other"> 367 <section id="relinfo-provided-other">
@@ -425,11 +390,6 @@
425 <listitem> 390 <listitem>
426 <para>Smart Package Management</para> 391 <para>Smart Package Management</para>
427 </listitem> 392 </listitem>
428
429 <listitem>
430 <para>Eclipse ADT (excl. QEMU) and plug-ins for application
431 development: LTTng, Perf, LatencyTOP, PowerTOP, SystemTap</para>
432 </listitem>
433 </itemizedlist> 393 </itemizedlist>
434 </section> 394 </section>
435 395
@@ -449,10 +409,6 @@
449 <para>The following functionality supported in other Enea Linux releases 409 <para>The following functionality supported in other Enea Linux releases
450 has been excluded in this release:<itemizedlist spacing="compact"> 410 has been excluded in this release:<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
451 <listitem> 411 <listitem>
452 <para>Eclipse plug-ins for image creation (HOB)</para>
453 </listitem>
454
455 <listitem>
456 <para>Networking features: DPDK vSwitch, DPDK</para> 412 <para>Networking features: DPDK vSwitch, DPDK</para>
457 </listitem> 413 </listitem>
458 414
diff --git a/doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/known_bugs_and_limitations.xml b/doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/known_bugs_and_limitations.xml
index 5058404..e92d90e 100644
--- a/doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/known_bugs_and_limitations.xml
+++ b/doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/known_bugs_and_limitations.xml
@@ -120,164 +120,11 @@
120 </section> 120 </section>
121 </section> 121 </section>
122 122
123 <section id="bugs-limitations-eclipse">
124 <title>Eclipse Tools</title>
125
126 <para>The Eclipse tools provided together with Enea Linux are part of the
127 Yocto Application Development Toolkit (ADT) and are maintained by
128 different open source projects. The list below outlines current problems
129 with the plug-ins as such, as well as kernel limitations when using a tool
130 towards the mentioned target:</para>
131
132 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
133 <listitem>
134 <para><emphasis role="bold">HOB</emphasis> is currently not supported
135 on Red Hat.<remark>LXCR-2994, LXCR-3222</remark></para>
136 </listitem>
137
138 <listitem>
139 <para><emphasis role="bold">SystemTap</emphasis> is currently not
140 supported on Red Hat.<remark>LXCR-3274</remark></para>
141 </listitem>
142
143 <listitem>
144 <para>When running <emphasis role="bold">SystemTap</emphasis> for the
145 first time on a target, you may need to manually ssh into the target
146 beforehand, in order to add the RSA key of the host to the file
147 known_hosts. Failing to do so will result in Eclipse freezing with the
148 progress window displayed, and a terminal message <literal>The
149 authenticity of host &lt;target_ip&gt; can't be
150 established</literal>.</para>
151 </listitem>
152
153 <listitem>
154 <para><emphasis role="bold">SystemTap</emphasis> scripts sometimes
155 result crosstap error messages about inaccessible variables. This is
156 not an issue with the tool itself, but stems from the compiler
157 optimizing away some of the variables. See workaround in the User's
158 Guide.<remark>LXCR-2204</remark></para>
159 </listitem>
160
161 <listitem>
162 <para>Currently <emphasis role="bold">BitBake Commander</emphasis>
163 projects can only be created for a local connection. Due to an
164 upstream bug, selecting a remote connection causes the Eclipse GUI to
165 freeze such that it must be killed.<remark>LXCR-2801</remark></para>
166 </listitem>
167
168 <listitem>
169 <para>A limitation currently makes <emphasis
170 role="bold">Eclipse</emphasis> non-responding when running a streaming
171 script, i.e. a script that runs continuously.</para>
172 </listitem>
173
174 <listitem>
175 <para>The <emphasis role="bold">LatencyTop</emphasis> plug-in for the
176 P2041 target reports some errors due to the permissions configuration
177 on the target, but it works correctly if the
178 <literal>latencytop</literal> command is issued from the Eclipse
179 console.<remark>LXCR-6303</remark></para>
180 </listitem>
181
182 <listitem>
183 <para>Currently <emphasis role="bold">LatencyTOP</emphasis> is not
184 available for ARM kernels built with SMP support due to an ARM
185 specific limitation in the Linux kernel.</para>
186 </listitem>
187
188 <listitem>
189 <para><emphasis role="bold">PowerTOP</emphasis> sometimes freezes
190 Eclipse after displaying a progress bar with message
191 <literal>Gathering powertop data file
192 remotely</literal>.<remark>LXCR-3143</remark></para>
193 </listitem>
194
195 <listitem>
196 <para>When running <emphasis role="bold">powertop</emphasis> from the
197 Eclipse terminal towards p2020rdb targets it is necessary to specify
198 the full path in order to find the
199 command.<remark>LXCR-2265</remark></para>
200 </listitem>
201
202 <listitem>
203 <para>When running <emphasis role="bold">powertop</emphasis> from the
204 Eclipse terminal towards zynq ZC702 targets it is necessary to specify
205 the full path in order to find the
206 command.<remark>LXCR-2265</remark></para>
207 </listitem>
208
209 <listitem>
210 <para>The <emphasis role="bold">PowerTOP</emphasis> console in Eclipse
211 might display messages like <literal>Cannot load
212 /var/cache/powertop/&lt;filename&gt;</literal>. As a workaround, run
213 <emphasis role="bold">powertop --calibrate</emphasis> for a while to
214 generate the missing files. See <ulink
215 url="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698020">Bugzilla
216 #698020</ulink>.<remark>LXCR-3575</remark></para>
217 </listitem>
218
219 <listitem>
220 <para><emphasis role="bold">ssh-only</emphasis> is currently the only
221 supported connection type when running Eclipse tools towards a
222 target.<remark>LXCR-2799</remark></para>
223 </listitem>
224
225 <listitem>
226 <para>Hyphen character '-' in the name of the <emphasis
227 role="bold">Yocto ADT AutoTools project</emphasis> can cause
228 configuration errors.<remark>LXCR-2290</remark></para>
229 </listitem>
230
231 <listitem>
232 <para>The <emphasis role="bold">LTTng</emphasis> tool does not work on
233 <emphasis role="bold">ARM</emphasis> targets, neither from within
234 Eclipse nor when run directly on target, due to a problem with
235 lttng-modules and gcc-4.8.x. See <ulink
236 url="https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6015">Bugzilla
237 #6015</ulink>.<remark>LXCR-2653, LXCR-3053</remark></para>
238 </listitem>
239
240 <listitem>
241 <para>When running <emphasis role="bold">LTTng</emphasis> from
242 Eclipse, it sometimes happens that a new session created in the
243 Control View does not immediately appear under Sessions for that
244 target. However, the session is created and will appear after
245 right-clicking "Sessions" and selecting "Refresh".</para>
246 </listitem>
247
248 <listitem>
249 <para>The<emphasis role="bold"> yocto-bsp</emphasis> properties page
250 has some problems in the graphical user interface. Occasionally it is
251 not possible to resize and scroll which makes it impossible to see the
252 lower part of the properties window.<remark>LXCR-3128</remark></para>
253 </listitem>
254
255 <listitem>
256 <para>When connecting an Eclipse project configured for <emphasis
257 role="bold">KGDB</emphasis> (GDB Hardware Debugging) to a 64-bit
258 PowerPC target, GDB fails to connect unless the architecture is
259 specified in <filename>.gdbinit</filename>. See <ulink
260 url="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=457697">Bugzilla
261 #457697</ulink>.<remark>LXCR-3984</remark></para>
262 </listitem>
263 </itemizedlist>
264 </section>
265
266 <section id="bugs-limitations-target-side-tools"> 123 <section id="bugs-limitations-target-side-tools">
267 <title>Target-Side Tools</title> 124 <title>Target-Side Tools</title>
268 125
269 <para>The target-side tools can be run stand-alone on target or from
270 Eclipse on host. The issues below are only observed when running the tools
271 directly on target:</para>
272
273 <itemizedlist spacing="compact"> 126 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
274 <listitem> 127 <listitem>
275 <para>The <emphasis role="bold">perf report</emphasis> command hangs
276 or crashes due to segmentation fault on ARM
277 targets.<remark>LXCR-2708</remark></para>
278 </listitem>
279
280 <listitem>
281 <para>The <emphasis role="bold">perf report</emphasis> does not show 128 <para>The <emphasis role="bold">perf report</emphasis> does not show
282 any output for the PandaBoard target.<remark>LXCR-2710</remark></para> 129 any output for the PandaBoard target.<remark>LXCR-2710</remark></para>
283 </listitem> 130 </listitem>
@@ -296,15 +143,6 @@
296 </listitem> 143 </listitem>
297 144
298 <listitem> 145 <listitem>
299 <para>The <emphasis role="bold">LTTng</emphasis> tool does not work on
300 <emphasis role="bold">ARM</emphasis> targets, neither from within
301 Eclipse nor when run directly on target, due to a problem with
302 lttng-modules and gcc-4.8.x. See <ulink
303 url="https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6015">Bugzilla
304 #6015</ulink>.<remark>LXCR-2653, LXCR-3053</remark></para>
305 </listitem>
306
307 <listitem>
308 <para>The <emphasis role="bold">powertop --calibrate</emphasis> 146 <para>The <emphasis role="bold">powertop --calibrate</emphasis>
309 command does not work on the Keystone k2hk-evm 147 command does not work on the Keystone k2hk-evm
310 target.<remark>LXCR-2660</remark></para> 148 target.<remark>LXCR-2660</remark></para>
@@ -318,22 +156,6 @@
318 </listitem> 156 </listitem>
319 157
320 <listitem> 158 <listitem>
321 <para>When running <emphasis role="bold">powertop</emphasis> on
322 <emphasis role="bold">ARM</emphasis> targets, the following
323 warning/error is repeated: <literal>clk_set_rate: failed to set
324 i2c0_aper rate</literal> . Then powertop stops and the statistics are
325 no longer updated. What probably happens here is that the cpufreq
326 governor tries to scale the CPU frequency, but since the I2C clock is
327 derived from the CPU frequency, the I2C driver implements some policy
328 to stay within legal frequency limits and rejects the frequency
329 changes, ending up with the warning message. A <ulink
330 url="https://github.com/Xilinx/linux-xlnx/commit/0fdd34575efae5c8eced09b6b0a1b723bff4d225">fix</ulink>
331 has been merged in the linux-xlnx kernel but is not yet propagated
332 into meta-xilinx.<remark>LXCR-3205, LXCR-3106,
333 LXCR-2660</remark></para>
334 </listitem>
335
336 <listitem>
337 <para>If you get an error message like <literal>Cannot load from file 159 <para>If you get an error message like <literal>Cannot load from file
338 /var/cache/powertop/saved_results.powertop</literal> when running 160 /var/cache/powertop/saved_results.powertop</literal> when running
339 <emphasis role="bold">powertop</emphasis>, there is most likely not 161 <emphasis role="bold">powertop</emphasis>, there is most likely not
@@ -433,11 +255,6 @@
433 255
434 <itemizedlist spacing="compact"> 256 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
435 <listitem> 257 <listitem>
436 <para>Running <emphasis role="bold">QEMU from an exported
437 rootfs</emphasis> requires sudo privileges on the host.</para>
438 </listitem>
439
440 <listitem>
441 <para><emphasis role="bold">menuconfig</emphasis> requires <emphasis 258 <para><emphasis role="bold">menuconfig</emphasis> requires <emphasis
442 role="bold">Ncurses</emphasis>. If the terminal that pops up 259 role="bold">Ncurses</emphasis>. If the terminal that pops up
443 immediately closes instead of showing the menuconfig interface, check 260 immediately closes instead of showing the menuconfig interface, check
diff --git a/doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/main_changes.xml b/doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/main_changes.xml
index da302c1..c295ade 100644
--- a/doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/main_changes.xml
+++ b/doc/book-enea-linux-release-info/doc/main_changes.xml
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@
4<chapter id="relinfo-changes"> 4<chapter id="relinfo-changes">
5 <title>Main Changes</title> 5 <title>Main Changes</title>
6 6
7 <para>This chapter describes the major changes and additions in the Enea 7 <para>N/A.</para>
8 Linux release compared to the previous release (Enea Linux 5.0-ppc).</para>
9 8
10 <section id="relinfo-changes-other"> 9 <para>This is the first release of Enea Linux, Networking profile.</para>
10
11 <section condition="hidden" id="relinfo-changes-other">
11 <title>New Functionality/Enhancements</title> 12 <title>New Functionality/Enhancements</title>
12 13
13 <remark>Based in the Jira query: 'project = CPDX and fixVersion = "Enea 14 <remark>Based in the Jira query: 'project = CPDX and fixVersion = "Enea
@@ -33,18 +34,20 @@
33 on repos and the manifest.</para> 34 on repos and the manifest.</para>
34 </section> 35 </section>
35 36
36 <section id="relinfo-fixed"> 37 <section condition="hidden" id="relinfo-fixed">
37 <title>Problems Fixed in this Release</title> 38 <title>Problems Fixed in this Release</title>
38 39
39 <para>TBD <remark>FIXME or set condition hidden</remark></para> 40 <para>TBD <remark>FIXME or set condition hidden</remark></para>
40 </section> 41 </section>
41 42
42 <section id="relinfo-added-drivers"> 43 <section condition="hidden" id="relinfo-added-drivers">
43 <title>Added Drivers</title> 44 <title>Added Drivers</title>
44 45
45 <para>TBD <remark>FIXME or set condition hidden</remark></para> 46 <para>TBD <remark>FIXME or set condition hidden</remark></para>
46 </section> 47 </section>
47 48
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53</chapter>