From 5b073d97d3e0910a71c6c2f4f9cd957df46a44cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: California Sullivan Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 14:15:17 -0700 Subject: CHANGELOG: add file This file will keep track of major changes between releases, beginning with the pyro release. Signed-off-by: California Sullivan Signed-off-by: Saul Wold --- CHANGELOG | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CHANGELOG (limited to 'CHANGELOG') diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9b38eb5c --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +This file will only list major changes that occur within a release. +For a full list of changes, view the git log of the repository. + +Pyro Release 5/2017 +=================== + +Changed default kernel provider from linux-yocto to linux-intel. +---------------------------------------------------------------- +Linux-intel is an Intel(R)-maintained kernel based on the latest stable +branch, along with backports from upstream to better support Intel(R) +hardware. The intel-linux kernel also has a branch with the preempt-rt +patches applied, providing a preempt-rt kernel with no additional work. + +Added QEMU support. +------------------- +We now build several virtio drivers into the kernel by default, and +have qemuboot.conf files for intel-corei7-64 and intel-core2-32 +targets. This allows one to do basic testing on meta-intel images +without having to use hardware. The virtio drivers are added via +KERNEL_FEATURES_INTEL_COMMON. This prevents them from being added to +custom kernels by default. They can be removed by adding the +following to a conf or kernel bbappend file: + KERNEL_FEATURES_INTEL_COMMON_remove = “cfg/virtio.scc” +OVMF firmware is also built and can be used in order to emulate a UEFI +environment. A full runqemu command line for intel-corei7-64 could look +like this: + runqemu core-image-minimal intel-corei7-64 wic ovmf + +Musl support +------------ +Meta-intel is now compatible with the musl C library. You can specify musl +As your C library by adding the following to your local.conf: + TCLIBC = “musl” +Note: there is a known failure with DPDK. + +X32 support +----------- +The meta-intel layer can now build with the x32 tune settings in a multi-lib +setting, it will not work in as the primary MACHINE tune as the bootloader needs +to be built as a 64bit binary. The setup for this would be as follows: + require conf/multilib.conf + MULTILIBS = "multilib:libx32 + DEFAULTTUNE_virtclass-multilib-libx32 = "corei7-64-x32" -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf