Yocto 1.2 Features

Potential Yocto Project 1.2 Features

Yocto Project 1.2 - Target release = April 2012

Yocto Project 1.2 Themes

The topics below are the themes that some members of the team have started brainstorming for Yocto Project v1.2. These will be improved with community input.

Yocto Project 1.2 Objectives

The objectives of the Yocto 1.2 release are to increase adoption of the Yocto Project.

Yocto Project 1.2 Theme List

The Yocto Project 1.2 Themes towards the Objectives listed above are:

• Improved usability of the build system for new experienced users, new novice users and existing users.

Process for Entering New Feature Requests

• Create a new entry in the appropriate feature table below (Poky, SDK, Hardware)
  • Suggestion: start by copying an existing request as a template
• Give the feature a short, descriptive name
• Provide a one or two sentence brief description of the feature
• Set the priority as appropriate (see the legend below)
• Set the Status to "Review"
• In the Source field, enter your name along with the origination of the request (e.g. OSV, OEM, Community) if applicable; provide as much detail here as you can
• In the Comments / Bugzilla field, provide any additional information for the request, such as a link to a bugzilla entry
• Preview your Entry to make sure it looks ok and then save it

Legend

Priority: 1 = Must have, 2 = Nice to have but wouldn't block a release, 3 = Lower priority, desired, defined plan, 4 = Worthwhile ideas, no defined plan

Status: Accept = Engineering agreement to include in release, Review = Under Review for Inclusion in this release, Reject = Will not be included in this release

Sample Table

This is a sample table to show how to submit features.

Feature Name	Priority	Status	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Placeholder feature name	1, 2, 3 or 4	Review	Name	Comment + Link

Usability

Feature Name	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Build Appliance: Pre-configured VM Build image built by Yocto	1	Review	davest/tracey/RP		http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557
Hob improvements	1	Review	davest/tracey/RP		http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559
Hob v2 - Interface updates?	1	Review	davest/tracey/RP		http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588
Improve user experience under Windows	1	Review	davest/tracey/RP		http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1586
Error Handling Improvements	1	Dev		Saul (Scott G)	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543
Firewall / Proxy handling in git	2	Review	davest/tracey/RP		http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1585

Core/Bitbake

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Due	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Make BasicHash the default		1	Review	RP			http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555
Address git fetcher mirror issues		2	Review	RP			http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511
Recipe specific configuration (e.g. Gstreamer)		2	Review			1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923
Finish and enable PR server		2	Review			1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1126
Host intrusion prevention/Swabber		2	Review			1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582
Yocto OOPS-type messages		2.5	Review	LCS		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562
Recipe-specific sysroot		3	Review	from 1.0	Saul (Dongxiao)	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1560
Handle old versions in WORKDIR		3	Review	from 1.0		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1561
Ability to build SRPM		3	Accept	RP Notes	Jeff Polk/Mark	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591
Binary package install class		3	Review			1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592
Disk space monitoring		2	Review	RP and Robert	WR Distro Team (Robert)	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1589
Ability to archive work dir		3	Review	LCS		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590
Support for remote layers		3	Community	Paul	1.2		http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598
Build Appliance: Pre-configured VM Build image (desktop Linux OS)		4	Review	LCS		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1558

QA Items

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Due	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Open Source Test Cases		3	Review	QA		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1595
Automate BSP Testing		2	Review	Tom		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1596
Test framework		4	Review	RP Notes		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594
Package History		1	Review	RP		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565
Package History Analysis Tool		1	Review	RP		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566
QA Tests: Add recipe for LSB Tests and automate test		2	Review			1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567
QA Tests: Add recipe for posix Tests and automate test		2	Review			1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568
QA Tests: Add recipe for rt Tests and automate test		2	Review			1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569
QA Test improvements - consider fedora/gentoo runtime security tools		3	Review			1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584
Collect data at build time to increase accuracy of estimation (hob)		2	Review			1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1316

Core Meta Data

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Due	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Investigate New UI		3	Review	Meta-data		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606
selinux patch integration		3	Review	Meta-data		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1609
build statistics reporting		2	Review	eflanagan/Jay7/ka6sox	Beth/Jay	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1612
Document multiple library versions co-existing		3	Review	Team	Saul (Dongxiao?)	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548
Embedded java environment or even JDK support		3	Review	Team		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613
gtk+ sato filechooser patch		3	Review	RP Notes		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1615
Sanity checks on per recipe basis		2	Accept	RP Notes Bug#405	Saul (Scott G)	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1616
Package Documentation Audit: All recipes build		2	Accept	Team	Scott G	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619
Parallel Locale Generation		2	Review	RP		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1554
Clean up warning messages		2	Review		Saul	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1544
Multilib: Enhance gcc recipe to support multilibs		2		RP	Ke	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1549
Multilib: Complete recipe enablement		2		RP	Ke	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1563
Multilib: Drop MULTILIB_IMAGE_INSTALL		2		RP	Ke	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564
Enhance TARGET_VENDOR field support		3	Review	RP	Ke	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1550
MeeGo GPLv2 Sync		2	Accept	RP Notes	Saul (Ke)	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1618
Finish Oracle/Sun Hotspot JDK/JRE support		2	Review	Tom	Tom	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1620
Running post installs at rootfs gen time		2	Review	RP Notes	Saul (Dexuan)	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621
Multi-lib - 6		1	Review	RP	Ke	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622
POSIX support		2	Review	Team		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1623
License file cleanup		2		Beth	Beth	1.2	1 week http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1547
QEMU GL Enhancements		2		Meta-data	Saul (Edwin)	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1624
Implement Factory reset		4	Review	Joshua		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593
Init		2	Review			1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625

Other Layer Meta Data

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Due	Comments / Bugzilla Links
x32 Enhancements		2	Review			1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579
BSPs or layers for a specific category of devices	This will demonstrate the value of Yocto to developers and help them get up to speed quicker for this category of devices.	2	Review	Dirk/Dave/Andy	TBD	1.2
Security layer		4	Review	Joshua		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1597

Infrastructure

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Due	Comments / Bugzilla Links
autobuilder layer support		2		Beth	Beth	1.2	2 weeks
autobuilder split of nightly (really an M4 task) few days license.bbclass refactor		2		Beth	Beth	1.2	1 week
buildstats memory measurements		2		Beth	Beth	1.2	1 week and half
autobuilder release checkbox (running a yocto release right from the autobuilder)		2		Beth	Beth	1.2	2 weeks
Eval Patch management tools	Consider patchwork, gerrit and others and see if they help. Any other alternatives?	3	Review	RP Notes		1.2	Yocto 1.2
Bugzilla to Wiki	Create a script which automatically populates and updates the Wiki based on changes in bugzilla.	2.5	Review	Darren		1.2	Yocto 1.2
Provide a click through license mechanism	Implement the mechanism described in Section 1.2. BSP \'Click-Through\' Licensing Procedure in the BSP Developer\'s Guide	2	Review	Tom	Tom	1.2

BSPs

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Due	Comments / Bugzilla Links
AMT driver integration	incorporate Linux AMT into the Yocto BSPs					1.2	Intel
Improve device management					Joshua/Darren	1.2	http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608
BSP update/intro	determine and integrate / create arch reference BSPs (e500, Cortex, ARM, MIPs)	2	Dev	Bruce/Richard/team	Bruce	1.2	Yocto 1.2, from 1.1
Drop Grub for Syslinux	Grub is considerably more complicated than we need for any of our current BSPs. Syslinux can be used in place of every known usage of Grub. For upcoming EFI BSPs, we can look to Efilinux. This will reduce our bootloader maintenance burden and simplify our images.	2	Review	Darren	Darren	1.2
Upgrade to EFI	Where possible, update our existing BSPs to boot using EFI. This will support development of efilinux as well as help us prepare for the newer boards which will be EFI only.	2	Review	Darren	Darren	1.2
BSP/kernel wrappers/wizards	Create some simple scripts or 'wizards' that make it easy for users to start writing a new BSP and/or easily make simple kernel modifications to a BSP. Ideally, users shouldn't need to know anything low-level about the kernel, git, or the mechanics of appending config items to recipes in order to get a BSP up and running or to make the simple modifications needed to tweak or maintain it.	2	Review	tomz	tomz	1.2
replace qemuppc					Bruce	1.2	Come from bug 414

ADT / Tools and Support

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Due	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Enhance the deploy part in remote debug		2	Review	Lianhao	Jessica	1.2	http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1600
Secure login		2	Review	ADT Team	Jessica	1.2	http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601
Linux tools upstream integration		2	Review	ADT Team	Jessica	1.2	http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602
Add recipe supporting autoconf-nativesdk and automake-nativesdk		2	Review	Lianhao		1.2	http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603
Eclipse BSP/Kernel Plugin		2	Review	Darren		1.2	http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610
enhance the bitbake commander eclipse plugin		2	Review	Dongxiao/Lianhao	TBD	TBD	http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1611
Tracing: tuna, oscilloscope recipes	This might be more useful with the increased importance of RT	3	Review	from 1.0		1.2	Yocto 1.2
Tracing/profiling HOWTOs	Create a document or extend the current Yocto tracing wiki page to explain in detail how to use all the tracing tools in Yocto. It should detail not only how to use each tool individually, but also how to use them in conjunction with each other, highlighting situations in which each is most useful. There should also be some extensive worked examples of real-life use-cases and how they could be investigated using the Yocto tracing/profiling tools.	2	Accept	Tom	Tom	1.2	Yocto 1.2, from 1.1
Profiling: Valgrind tools in Eclipse		2	Accept	Dave/JZ		1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1580
Tracing: Systemtap usability in Yocto		2	Accept	Tom	Tom	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551
Tracing: create separate recipe for perf		2	Review	Tom	Tom	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552
Tracing: perf trace scripting support		2	Dev (50%)	from 1.0	Tom	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553
'perf scripts' integration		2	Dev	Tom	Jessica/Tom	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617

Documentation

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Due	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Various Demo Videos	The idea here is to create screen-capture type tutorials similar to what exists for the ADT Eclipse Plug-in. However, we want to contract out some help for professional voice-over talent to be used with the images. These don\'t have to be limited to screen-capture material but could include well-done PPT decks - similar to how other business units in Intel create various training modules. For 1.1 it would be good to capture the script for the existing ADT Eclipse Plug-in module and have it voiced over. Also, for 1.1 it would be good to create a similar module for the Image Creator application.	2	Not Started	From ADT module and scratch	ScottR	1.2	Q3 at the earliest

Kernel

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Due	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Minimal Image unique	make minimal image smaller	3	Accept	Team	WR Distro Team	1.2	Yocto 1.2, from 1.1
Kernel Tools	Implement plan for kernel tools	2	Dev (20%)	Bruce/Mark	Bruce	1.2	Yocto 1.2, from 1.1
use cases	BSP config streamlining, building the kernel standalone, yoctoization, meta data sharing	1	Accept	Bruce	Bruce	1.2	Yocto 1.2, from 1.1
kernel bloat - development	target = boot a minimal image in < 8M - development complete	1	Dev	Darren	Darren	1.2	Yocto 1.2, from 1.1, continuation needed?
Fast boot time	2 second boot time target	1	Dev	Team	Darren	1.2	Yocto 1.2, from 1.1, continuation needed?
Upstream config fragments	Work with John Stultz to upstream a Linux kernel config fragment manager and rework the yocto-kernel-tools to use it. This will simplify our tooling and increase our usage/test base.	1	Review	Darren		1.2
Real-time process-executed timers	Timers currently run at the priority of the softirq that processes them and they are accounted to whichever task was preempted for them to run. This negatively impacts determinism and accounting accuracy.	2	Review	Darren		1.2
Define Kernel policy	We need to clearly document kernel policy and make the config fragments reflect it. This will facilitate a more modular approach to building BSP kernel configs, as well as make it clear what can be expected to be supported when running a "linux-yocto kernel".	1	Review	Darren		1.2
Target module build		2	Review	RP Notes	Darren	1.2	http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614