About This Release This release provides a publicly available Enea Linux distribution for a selected set of PPC targets. This release is generated from branch of applicable git repositories. Provided contents: Source code, recipes, scripts, and documentation for building your own Linux kernel, root file system, and cross-compilation toolchains (SDKs) Default configurations for basic Yocto functionality Feature-specific configurations to optionally add more capabilities to the Linux kernel Pre-built images (kernels, rootfs, dtb) and other binaries available for download Eclipse executable plus application development tools (ADT) for command line and Eclipse Supported targets: QEMU PPC Kernel configuration: P2041RDB: One kernel flavor (release) P3041DS: One kernel flavor (release) T4240RDB: Two kernel flavors (release & debug) Low-Latency Desktop (LLD) Supported host environment: Supported versions: Yocto version poky source version gcc version: Linux kernel version for all targets: Eclipse version Package versions: See Distribution channel: All deliverables can be downloaded from Supported features: See . More details about this release are provided under the following topics:Info This list is currently hidden (same as TOC) until we might add useful descriptions of the chapters
Provided Packages Type of Packages and Provider Reference Packages in Enea Linux images See the Enea Linux Open Source Report Tools in the Eclipse tarball provided with Enea Linux See the Enea Linux Eclipse Open Source Report Packages provided by Yocto See the , tab "Release Notes"
Provided Toolchain/s (SDK) The SDK contains toolchains supporting cross-compilation of applications for the targets on an host. See the Enea Linux User's Guide for information on how to build and install a toolchain.FIXME LATER MAYBE: Sorry but 5.0-ppc does not support cross-compilation of 32-bit applications for the T4240RDB 64bit target due to bugs in Yocto.
Supported Drivers No information of supported drivers is provided in this version of the Release Information.
Provided Documentation The following Enea Linux manuals are available for : README.htm - top page of the documentation README.release - text file describing the release contents, installation, and quick getting started Enea Linux Release Information (this document) Enea Linux User's Guide Enea Linux Open Source Report Enea Linux Eclipse Open Source Report The Enea Linux Eclipse tarball and Eclipse Open Source Report is inherited from Enea Linux 4.0. How to use Eclipse is described inside the Enea Linux User's Guide. Eclipse's own documentation is available in tarball Enea-Linux-Eclipse_.tar, directory eclipse/readme.
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Other Provided Functionality The functionality in a distribution depends on included packages in the default image. In addition to the supported features, the following functionality is also available, among other: On target T4240RDB: SRIO support in user space (NWRITE, NREAD, msg, doorbell) USDPAA Smart Package Management Eclipse ADT (excl. QEMU) and plug-ins for application development: LTTng, Perf, LatencyTOP, PowerTOP, SystemTap
Intentional Limitations The following functionality supported in other Enea Linux releases has been excluded in this release: Eclipse plug-ins for image creation (HOB) Networking features: DPDK vSwitch, DPDK Real-time features: Fully Preemptible Kernel (FPK) from the PREEMPT_RT patch Memory features: NUMA