Yocto 1.3 Features

Potential Yocto Project 1.3 Features

Yocto Project 1.3 - Target release = Oct. 2012

Yocto Project 1.3 Themes

The Yocto Project 1.3 Themes include:

1. Continuity / Refresh:
   1. The usual keeping up to date with various upstream project, continue to work on the quality of the metadata and keeping up to date with bug fixing.
2. Stabilization & Adoption:
   1. We've introduced a lot of changes. I think now may be a good time to catch our breath so to speak and ensure everything is complete, functional, well tested and has the right level of polish.
   2. We also need to encourage adoption of the project by OSV and Silicon Vendors and look at ways we can advance and integrate Shoeleather-type board labs (from semis and OSVs).
3. Usability:
   1. Introduce WebHob?
   2. Continue improving error messages
   3. Reserve time to jump on usability issues as they come up

Areas to improve for 1.3 release

1. SState improvements (file urls, overwriting files checks)
2. Init system overhaul (optional systemd support?)
3. Performance improvements (postinstall handling, rootfs generation speedups)
4. Multilib bug fixes
5. Complete multilib recipe enablement and automated sanity tests
6. Bitbake test suite
7. Build history web UI
8. Autobuilder Improvements

Process for Entering New Feature Requests

• Open a bug in the Yocto bugzilla setting the type of bug to be an "enhancement" request. The detail about the request should be included in the bugzilla report.
• 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
• 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 includind a link to a bugzilla entry
• Preview your Entry to make sure it looks ok and then save it

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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

Cleanups/Improvements

P1

ID	Requester	Summary (13 tasks) ⇒	Milestone	Whiteboard	Assignee	Status	Severity
1625	Song Liu	Support use of alternative init systems	1.4 M2	in development	Radu Moisan	VERIFIED	enhancement
1570	Gary Thomas	ICU fails if target endian != build host endian	Future	Tested on qemuppc, ask for Gary to have a try. May24, 2012	Ross Burton	RESOLVED	normal
1465	Martin Jansa	bitbake cannot fetch local files from SRC_URI when -b is used	1.2.1	(P1) Patches sent for some issues, adding a sanity test remains.	Laurentiu Palcu	RESOLVED	normal
2044	Paul Eggleton	sstate needs a mechanism to detect changes to local files	1.3	(P1) Implemented	Paul Eggleton	RESOLVED	enhancement
2289	Mark Hatle	Packages providing "ALTERNATIVES" do not have provides specified	1.3	(P1)	Mark Hatle	RESOLVED	normal
2311	Gary Thomas	SRC checksums are not being checked	1.2.1	(P1)	Richard Purdie	RESOLVED	major
2369	tf	Update site/arm-common to allow building recent version of glib-2.0	1.3	(P1)	Saul Wold	RESOLVED	normal
1938	Richard Purdie	Detect Host system changes when using sstate	1.3 M3	(P1)(Scheduled) Patches out for review	Richard Purdie	VERIFIED	enhancement
2319	Darren Hart	gthumb: do_install hangs on highly parallel builds	1.3 M3	(P1)(Patch Review)	Ross Burton	VERIFIED	normal
2360	Jiajun Xu	PACKAGE_ARCHS cause wrong packages installed into image	1.2.1	(P1) Patch Review 20%	Robert Yang	VERIFIED	normal
238	Richard Purdie	sstate code doesn't detect overwriting files	1.3 M4	(Scheduled)	Richard Purdie	VERIFIED	enhancement
1192	niqingliang2003	mpc8315's tune file: "tune-ppc603e.inc"	1.3 M4		Bruce Ashfield	VERIFIED	enhancement
2379	Khem Raj	Use xorg-xserver and remove xserver-kdrive	1.3 M4		Ross Burton	VERIFIED	enhancement

P2

ID	Requester	Summary (15 tasks) ⇒	Milestone	Whiteboard	Assignee	Status	Severity
139	Joshua Lock - Disabled	Set default gcc instruction generation to TARGET_ARCH on target	Future		Khem Raj	RESOLVED	enhancement
2312	Paul Eggleton	Examine changes after repeated perl do_compile	1.3	(P2)	Nitin Kamble	RESOLVED	enhancement
256	Richard Purdie	Sync up RPM version policy with rest of system (including support '~' in version strings)	Future	Moved from Laurentiu to Unassigned	Unassigned	RESOLVED	enhancement
1870	Dexuan Cui	[DEB] meta-toolchain-gmae: do_populate_sdk failed with package_deb	1.4		Saul Wold	RESOLVED	major
2241	tf	gnomebase.bbclass fetcher url needs to be fixed	1.3	patch pending	Saul Wold	RESOLVED	normal
2245	Saul Wold	gthumb fails to install configration files correctly	1.3	(P2)	Saul Wold	RESOLVED	normal
2246	Ross Burton	Doesn't build genext2fs when making core-image-minimal	1.1.2	patch submitted (May 4)	Saul Wold	RESOLVED	normal
2297	Richard Purdie	fotowall parallel make race	1.2.1		Andrei Gherzan	RESOLVED	normal
2314	Martin Jansa	eglibc-2.15 failing with shlib.lds:127: syntax error	1.3		Martin Jansa	RESOLVED	normal
2358	Saul Wold	eglibc-nativesdk (2.15) has packaging issues	1.3	(P2)	Xiaofeng Yan	RESOLVED	normal
2256	Richard Purdie	kernel menuconfig confusion with sstate	1.3 M2	(P1) (fixed) - 25 June 2012	Paul Eggleton	VERIFIED	normal
2261	tf	dbus-launch should be included in main dbus package	1.3 M3	http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=f8d40ab395ffb8ed12731e318354fb3d30447e84	Radu Moisan	VERIFIED	normal
2357	tf	connman has hard build time dependency on ofono	1.3 M3	(P2)	Cristian Iorga	VERIFIED	normal
2367	Adrien Bustany	libpcap recipe does package pcap-config in libpcap instead of libpcap-dev	1.3 M2	(M1)(merged)	Saul Wold	VERIFIED	normal
2373	Ross Burton	No virtual/egl provider on Mesa	1.3 M4	patch ready for test, May2, 2012	Edwin Zhai	VERIFIED	normal

Usability

P1

ID	Requester	Summary (2 tasks) ⇒	Milestone	Whiteboard	Assignee	Status	Severity
2321	Seebs	TUNECONFLICT is neither documented nor used consistently	1.3	(P1)	Mark Hatle	RESOLVED	normal
1179	Darren Hart	Specify paths searched when failing to find a SRC_URI	1.3 M3	(P1)(Scheduled) Two patches out for review on bitbake-devel	Richard Purdie	VERIFIED	enhancement

P2

1659

Mark Hatle

[Usability] Way to determine what is about to happen (similar to a dry-run)

1.4 M5

Robert Yang

VERIFIED

enhancement

Performance

P1

ID	Requester	Summary (2 tasks) ⇒	Milestone	Whiteboard	Assignee	Status	Severity
1621	Song Liu	[Performance] Running post installs at rootfs gen time	1.4 M2		Laurentiu Palcu	VERIFIED	enhancement
61	Ross Burton - Disabled	[Performance] Generate fontconfig cache when building image	1.3 M3	(P1)(Scheduled)	Laurentiu Palcu	VERIFIED	normal

P2

ID	Requester	Summary (2 tasks) ⇒	Milestone	Whiteboard	Assignee	Status	Severity
1677	Paul Eggleton	[Performance] Improve speed of packaging for all-arch recipes	Future		Paul Eggleton	RESOLVED	enhancement
1718	Shane Wang	[Performance] can the task to find dependency be multi-threading?	Future		Richard Purdie	RESOLVED	enhancement

Multilib

P1

ID	Requester	Summary (4 tasks) ⇒	Milestone	Whiteboard	Assignee	Status	Severity
2356	Jiajun Xu	[multilib] fonts corrupted with ipk build for 32bit connman against qemux86-64	1.2.1	(P1) patch in master, May9, 2012	Edwin Zhai	RESOLVED	normal
1488	Mark Hatle	[Multilib] settings need a sanity check	1.3 M3	(P1)	Seebs	VERIFIED	normal
1622	Song Liu	[DOC] Document multilib setup and usage	1.4 M5	1 March 2013: Resolved/Fixed	Scott Rifenbark	VERIFIED	enhancement	[1]
2038	Shane Wang	[multilib] Add scripts to sanity check for multilib libraries in the build directory	1.3 M4		Radu Moisan	VERIFIED	enhancement

P2

ID	Requester	Summary (9 tasks) ⇒	Milestone	Whiteboard	Assignee	Status	Severity
1525	Matthew McClintock	[multilib] Triggering building a 64 bit kernel with a 32 bit userspace	Future		Bruce Ashfield	IN PROGRESS DESIGN	enhancement
1508	Richard Purdie	[Multilib] Drop PKGSUFFIX and have nativesdk use multilib technology	1.3		Richard Purdie	RESOLVED	enhancement
1538	Dongxiao Xu	[multilib]: X window doesn't startup in multilib image randomly	1.2.1	works for me. May 10, 2012	Edwin Zhai	RESOLVED	normal
2355	Jiajun Xu	[multilib] lib64 core-sato-sdk build against qemux86 fails at qt4-x11-free	1.2.1		Dongxiao Xu	VERIFIED	normal
1731	Dongxiao Xu	[multilib] Finish rest recipes in world multilib enabling	1.3 M4	(Scheduled)	Bogdan Marinescu	RESOLVED	enhancement
1369	Ke Yu	[Multilib] On-target gcc enhancement	Future	703b70c98a86771a891b46382f3ee20c4ef93f39	Michael Halstead	VERIFIED	critical
1563	Richard Purdie	[Multilib] Complete recipe enablement	1.3 M4	(scheduled)	Bogdan Marinescu	VERIFIED	enhancement
1729	Dongxiao Xu	[multilib] Finish core-image-sato-sdk multilib enabling	1.3 M4	(scheduled) Depends on Jiajun's full test	Bogdan Marinescu	VERIFIED	normal
1730	Dongxiao Xu	[multilib] Finish core-image-lsb multilib enabling	1.3 M4	(Already covered by QA)(scheduled)	Constantin Musca	VERIFIED	normal

P3

1502

Jiajun Xu

[multilib] No support for multilibs and deb package backend

Future

(Test Plan Ready)

Aníbal Limón

RESOLVED

enhancement

Autobuilder

P1

ID	Requester	Summary (6 tasks) ⇒	Milestone	Whiteboard	Assignee	Status	Severity
1766	Beth Flanagan	Sanity test fail after reboot.	Future	(P1) Status: Planned	Beth Flanagan	RESOLVED	normal
2034	Darren Hart	Tail first failing log in yocto-build email summaries	1.3 M2	(P1)(Done)	Beth Flanagan	VERIFIED	enhancement
1850	Richard Purdie	Add new nightly-misc target to test other combinations	1.3 M1	(P1)(No QA needed)(Scheduled) Fixed in contrib. Once AB lockdown is complete will be implemented in production.	Beth Flanagan	VERIFIED	normal
2028	Darren Hart	Add a poky-tiny DISTRO target	1.3 M1	(P1)(No QA needed)(Scheduled)Status: Pending commit to repo	Beth Flanagan	VERIFIED	normal
2191	Yi Zhao	[autobuilder] i686-x86_64 toolchain is copied to the incorrect sharing directory	1.3 M2	(P1)(No QA needed)(Done)	Beth Flanagan	VERIFIED	normal
2010	Hongna Xu	Some unnecessary packages installed cause AutoBuilder built failed	1.4	(Development) Status: Tested. Estimate: 4 hours	Michael Halstead	RESOLVED	normal

P2

ID	Requester	Summary (8 tasks) ⇒	Milestone	Whiteboard	Assignee	Status	Severity
1596	Richard Purdie	Automate BSP Testing	1.6	Co-Assign with Michael	Paul Eggleton	VERIFIED	enhancement
874	Yongkang You	[AutoBuilder/FEAT] Set Bug to Fixed automatically when building in AutoBuilder	1.4		Beth Flanagan	RESOLVED	enhancement
1612	Song Liu	Build statistics reporting	1.5		Beth Flanagan	RESOLVED	enhancement
1673	Beth Flanagan	More work to meta-target (lsb images)	Future		Beth Flanagan	RESOLVED	enhancement
1628	Song Liu	Autobuilder layer support	1.4 M4	(No QA Needed)	Beth Flanagan	VERIFIED	enhancement
1877	Lianhao Lu	populate ipks/qemu images/eclipse plugin for QA test	1.3 M4	(1.3) Status: Patch Pending	Beth Flanagan	VERIFIED	normal
1958	Jim A	missing package at source and not in Yocto mirror	1.3 M4	(1.3) Status: Design Phase. Needs to be in bb	Beth Flanagan	VERIFIED	normal
2029	Darren Hart	Add a core-image-rt DISTRO target	1.3 M1	(No QA needed)(Design) Estimate: 4 hours.	Beth Flanagan	VERIFIED	normal

QA/Testing

P1

ID	Requester	Summary (2 tasks) ⇒	Milestone	Whiteboard	Assignee	Status	Severity
1975	Joshua Lock - Disabled	BitBake test suite	1.3		Richard Purdie	VERIFIED	enhancement
1890	Paul Eggleton	Build history analysis web interface	1.3 M4		Paul Eggleton	VERIFIED	enhancement

ADT/SDK/Eclipse

ID	Requester	Summary (13 tasks) ⇒	Milestone	Whiteboard	Assignee	Status	Severity
166	Lianhao Lu	wrong include directories listed in Yocto SDK project template	Future		Jessica	RESOLVED	minor
191	Jessica	Provide interface for user the install Yocto SDK through IDE	Future		Jessica	RESOLVED	enhancement
1601	Jessica	add secure login support for tcf	---		Jessica	RESOLVED	enhancement
1610	Jessica	Eclipse BSP/Kernel Plugin	1.3	(p2) - development complete	Jessica	RESOLVED	enhancement
188	Jessica	cdt.launch.remote issues on a non-canonical terminal	1.4		Lianhao Lu	VERIFIED	enhancement
2115	Hongna Xu	Add prompt for Perf/LatencyTop when eclipse connect to target	1.3 M1	(QA Testing Completed)	Jessica	VERIFIED	minor
2383	Khem Raj	Relocatable SDK	1.3 M3	(P2)(Scheduled)	Laurentiu Palcu	VERIFIED	enhancement
545	Joshua Lock - Disabled	Improve SDK sysroot extensibility and workflow	1.7		Chen Qi	RESOLVED	enhancement
1489	Jessica	tcf-agent segmentaion fault cause the re-running remote debug fail in Eclipse	1.3 M2	(P3)need to test the latest tcf 1.0 upstream whether the problem still exists	Lianhao Lu	VERIFIED	normal
1915	Hongna Xu	Can't change C/C++ Yocto Project settings	1.3 M3	(Covered by current QA Test Plan)	Lianhao Lu	VERIFIED	normal
2288	Jessica	unable to create new Bitbake Commander project due to too many files under project root directory	1.3 M2	(P2)	Lianhao Lu	VERIFIED	normal
2342	Reinette Chatre	Toolchain archive contains DISTRO_VERSION instead of SDK_VERSION	1.5		Jessica	VERIFIED	enhancement
2372	Hongna Xu	[eclipse]Can't import or create Bitbake Commander Project if sanity network check fail	1.2.1		Jessica	VERIFIED	normal

Sato issues

P3/P4

ID	Requester	Summary (2 tasks) ⇒	Milestone	Whiteboard	Assignee	Status	Severity
110	Joshua Lock - Disabled	Review GTK+ on VGA	Future		Jussi Kukkonen	RESOLVED	normal
149	Jiajun Xu	[All] There is no way to exit matchbox-keyboard in X	Future		Ross Burton	RESOLVED	normal

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